THIS MUST BE ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL FILMS EVER - Watching SEVEN SAMURAI For The First Time

Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic samurai action film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Taking place in 1586[a] in the Sengoku period of Japanese history, it follows the story of a village of desperate farmers who seek to hire samurai to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.
At the time, the film was the most expensive film made in Japan. It took a year to shoot and faced many difficulties. It was the second-highest-grossing domestic film in Japan in 1954. Many reviews compared the film to westerns.
Seven Samurai is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films in cinema history. Since its release, it has consistently ranked highly in critics' lists of greatest films, such as the BFI's Sight & Sound and Rotten Tomatoes polls. It was also voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 international critics' poll. It is regarded as one of the most "remade, reworked, and referenced" films in cinema.
Cast
The seven samurai
Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada (島田勘兵衛, Shimada Kambei), a war-weary but honorable and strategic rōnin, and the leader of the seven
Yoshio Inaba as Gorōbei Katayama (片山五郎兵衛, Katayama Gorōbei), a skilled archer, who acts as Kambei's second-in-command and helps create the master-plan for the village's defense
Daisuke Katō as Shichirōji (七郎次), Kambei's old friend and former lieutenant
Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyūzō (久蔵), a serious, stone-faced and supremely skilled swordsman
Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi Hayashida (林田平八, Hayashida Heihachi), an amiable though less-skilled fighter, whose charm and wit maintain his comrades' morale in the face of adversity
Isao Kimura as Katsushirō Okamoto (岡本勝四郎, Okamoto Katsushirō), the untested son of a wealthy, land-owning samurai, whom Kambei reluctantly takes in as a disciple[11]
Toshiro Mifune as Kikuchiyo (菊千代), a humorous, mercurial and temperamental rogue who lies about being a samurai, but eventually proves his worth and resourcefulness
Villagers
Yoshio Tsuchiya as Rikichi (利吉), a hotheaded villager
Bokuzen Hidari as Yohei (与平), a timid old man
Yukiko Shimazaki as Rikichi's wife
Kamatari Fujiwara as Manzō (万造), a farmer who disguises his daughter as a boy to try to protect her from the samurai
Keiko Tsushima as Shino (志乃), Manzō's daughter
Kokuten Kōdō as Gisaku (儀作), the village patriarch, referred to as "Grandad"
Yoshio Kosugi as Mosuke, one of the farmers sent to town to hire the samurai
Others
Shinpei Takagi as the bandit chief[12]
Shin Otomo as the bandit second-in-command
Haruo Nakajima as a bandit scout killed by Kyūzō[12]
Eijirō Tōno as a thief[12]
Atsushi Watanabe as a bun seller
Toshio Takahara as Samurai with a Gun
Jun Tatara as a coolie
Sachio Sakai as a coolie
Takeshi Seki as a coolie
Tatsuya Nakadai (uncredited) as a samurai wandering through town

[@zvimur]

Ehh... did you watch the short version? By short I mean 150 minutes😅. Original run over 200 min.

[@flarrfan]

You should do The Magnificent Seven, soon if not next...