Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 207 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- One of the best-reviewed films Cue holds.
- In Japanese — subtitles on.
The story
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
- martial arts
- japan
- samurai
- sword
- peasant
- village
- looting
- rice
- fencing
- moral ambiguity
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Toshirō Mifune
Kikuchiyo
Takashi Shimura
Kambei Shimada
Yoshio Inaba
Gorobei Katayama
Seiji Miyaguchi
Kyuzo
- Minoru Chiaki — Heihachi Hayashida
- Daisuke Katō — Shichiroji
- Isao Kimura — Katsushiro Okamoto
- Keiko Tsushima — Shino
- Yukiko Shimazaki — Rikichi's Wife
- Kamatari Fujiwara — Manzô - Father of Shino
- Yoshio Kosugi — Mosuke
- Bokuzen Hidari — Yohei
- Yoshio Tsuchiya — Rikichi
- Kokuten Kōdō — Gisaku, the Old Man
- Eijirō Tōno — Kidnapper
- Directed
- Akira Kurosawa
- Written
- Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto
Production
- Rating
- 8.5 / 10 · 4,355 ratings
- Studio
- TOHO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
