Landmark Works

Seven Samurai

Also Known As Shichinin no Samurai (original Japanese title)

Sound Film

Citation Formats

General Reference

Film and Media Atlas. "Seven Samurai." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/seven-samurai.

APA Style

Film and Media Atlas. (n.d.). Seven Samurai. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/seven-samurai

BibTeX

@misc{filmandmediaatlas-seven-samurai,
  author = {Film and Media Atlas},
  title = {Seven Samurai},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://media.interactiveatlas.org/works/seven-samurai},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

A 1954 Akira Kurosawa epic about a village that hires seven ronin to defend it from bandits, celebrated for pioneering the multi-camera, telephoto-lens technique for shooting action that later filmmakers built on for decades. Its influence runs directly through the 1960 American remake The Magnificent Seven and, according to scholar David Desser, through more remakes, reworkings and references than almost any other film in cinema history.

Facts

Release Year

1954 1

Country

Japan 1

Cross-Tradition Connections