Seven Samurai (1954)

Instead of reviewing a newly released movie, I decided to go nostalgic and review on of my favorite movies of all time. Seven Samurai, directed by [in my personal opinion] one of the best movie director that ever lived Akira Kurosawa, is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential film ever. The story is relatively simple. It is a story about a group of farmers who are constantly raided by bandits and have no other options but to ask for the help of 7 samurais. They find the magnificent 7 samurai who accept the payment of nothing more but rice offered by the farmers and go back to the village. They first devise a plan on who to defeat the bandits and along the way become more attached to the people and the lives of the poor farmers. Then in a climactic battle, the bandits arrive as the samurais fight to the death to help the farmers. This is one of the most heartwarming, action-packed, and influential movie ever made. Toshiro Mifune once again delivers a great performance along with one of Japan's famous actor Takashi Shimura. This is one of Akira Kurosawa's well known work of art in his career as a movie director. This is one of the first Japanese films to become internationally famous and the film because part of Japanese subculture. As Akira Kurosawa's first take on a samurai film, this film leads to a whole array of many samurai films to come made by this incredible genius such as Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Kagemusha, and Ran. If you have not seen this movie, you haven't seen a real movie. Recent movies are, of course, enjoyable but do not entertain you and touch your heart as much as this movie does. One of my personal favorites. Please check this one out. I have full confidence that anyone would like this film. I give it a perfect score of 100 out of 100.