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{{quote|'' "This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves."''
'''Seven Samurai''' is a 1954 Japanese film directed by [[Akira Kurosawa]]; it starred his longtime collaborators Takashi Shimura and [[Toshiro Mifune]] in two of the lead roles. It is considered by many Western critics to be the finest Japanese film of all time, and a few of them consider it to be the finest film ever made, period.
Menaced by an army of bandits and on the brink of starvation, a village in medieval Japan decides to hire a small, motley collection of [[Ronin]] to defend them. Pity they have nothing to hire them ''with'' but rice...
[[The Magnificent Seven Samurai|It has been remade, homaged, or flat out ripped off numerous times]], in genres ranging from western (''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'') to science fiction (''Battle Beyond The Stars'', ''[[Samurai 7]]'') and, if you're willing to stretch a bit, anthromorphized animals (''[[A Bug's Life]]'').
This film has a serious claim to not only being the forebearer to pretty much ''every'' getting-the-team-together-for-a-mission movie -- whether it's a [[Hitchhiker Heroes]], [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]], [[Putting the Band Back Together]], or even [[The Caper]] -- but also to being the first ''modern'' action movie. While it wasn't the first movie to use such tropes as [[Slow Motion Fall|dramatic slow motion]] or [[Resigned to the Call|a reluctant hero]], [[Trope Codifier|it was the first to bring them together in such a way]] that would be instantly recognizable and familiar to the present-day audience.
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* [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]] - co-namer, along with ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]''
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler|Four of the seven}}
* [[The Archer]]: Gorobei. {{spoiler|Kambei replaces him after his death.}}
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* [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: {{spoiler|Katsushiro and Shinou realize it's now or never.}} Probably.
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