七人(しちにん)の侍(さむらい)

しちにんのさむらい
noun (proper)
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa film, 1954)
proper-nounwork-nameentertainment
1. Seven Samurai (film by Akira Kurosawa, 1954)
An epic film by 黒澤明(くろさわあきら) in which poor farmers, threatened by bandits, hire seven masterless samurai to defend their village. One of the most influential films ever made; its story was remade as the Western The Magnificent Seven.
『七人(しちにん)の侍(さむらい)』を見(み)た。
I watched Seven Samurai.
『七人(しちにん)の侍(さむらい)』は黒澤明(くろさわあきら)の代表作(だいひょうさく)だ。
Seven Samurai is Akira Kurosawa's best-known work.
『七人(しちにん)の侍(さむらい)』では、農民(のうみん)に雇(やと)われた侍(さむらい)たちが野武士(のぶし)から村(むら)を守(まも)る。
In Seven Samurai, samurai hired by farmers defend a village against bandits.

Pronunciation

  • The title is read しちにん, not ななにん

Cultural note

  • Stars 三船敏郎(みふねとしろう) and 志村喬(しむらたかし); it runs about three and a half hours
  • The plot of gathering a team one by one and defending a place against attack became a model for countless later films
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