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Line 1: {{work}} [[File:Sevensamurai.jpg\|~~frame~~thumb\|350px]] {{quote\| '' "This is the nature of war. By protecting others, you save yourselves."'' - \|'''Kambei Shimada'''}} '''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. {{tropenamer}} ~~----~~ * [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]] - co-namer, along with ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' ~~=== This film - very frequently appearing in Top Ten Of All Time lists - is a [[Trope Maker]] or early example of: ===~~ {{tropelist}} * [[Anyone Can Die]]: {{spoiler\|Four of the seven}} * [[The Archer]]: Gorobei. {{spoiler\|Kambei replaces him after his death.}} Line 65 ⟶ 67: * [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Heihachi Hayashida, who is not very skilled, is recruited mainly in hopes he can be this during adversity. However {{spoiler\|he is the first one killed before the big battle}}. * [[Pyrrhic Victory]] {{quote\| "So, again we are defeated. The farmers have won. Not us."}} * [[The Quiet One]]: Kyūzō. * [[Rape, Pillage and Burn]] Line 89 ⟶ 91: * [[Weapon Tombstone]] * [[You Don't Want to Die a Virgin, Do You?]]: {{spoiler\|Katsushiro and Shinou realize it's now or never.}} Probably. ~~----~~ ~~Homages, parodies, or knock-offs~~ * ''[[Naruto]]'' - The Land of Waves arc. * ''[[Battle Beyond the Stars]]'' * ''[[Samurai 7]]'' * ''[[The Magnificent Seven]]'' * ''[[Three Amigos]]'' * ''[[A Bug's Life]]'' * ''Seven Samurai 20XX'' * ''Star Wars: The Clone Wars'' - Season 2, Episode 17 * The Star Wars comic ''Eight Against a World''. * ''[[The Dark Tower (Literature)/Wolves of the Calla\|Wolves of the Calla]]'' * ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]''- Toku's rise to fame started with seven samurai gathering to defend his village, though all of them died. Later, the monk Koan gathers seven Champions of Bushido to do the same thing. * ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' has an archetype of cyborg bushi called ''The Six Samurai''. * ''[[Ironclad]]'' {{reflist}} [[Category:The Criterion Collection]] [[Category:The Criterion Collection (LaserDisc)]] [[Category:Japanese Films]] [[Category:Epic Movie]] [[Category:The Fifties]]▼ [[Category:Trope Makers]] [[Category:Films of the 1950s]] [[Category:Seven Samurai]] [[Category:Akira Kurosawa]] ▲[[Category:~~The Fifties~~Film]]