Directed by	Akira Kurosawa
Written by	Akira Kurosawa Shinobu Hashimoto Hideo Oguni
Produced by	Sōjirō Motoki
Starring	Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Keiko Tsushima Isao Kimura Daisuke Katō Seiji Miyaguchi Yoshio Inaba Minoru Chiaki Kamatari Fujiwara Kokuten Kōdō Yoshio Tsuchiya Eijiro Tono Jun Tatara Atsushi Watanabe Yoshio Kosugi Bokuzen Hidari Yukiko Shimazaki
Cinematography	Asakazu Nakai
Edited by	Akira Kurosawa
Music by	Fumio Hayasaka
Production company	Toho
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	26 April 1954
Running time	207 minutes (with intermission)
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese
Budget	¥210 million or US$656,000
Box office	Japan rentals: ¥268.2 million USA: $833,533
(This information is from wikipedia.org.)

Seven Samurai

The defenseless

Poor farmers are not trained to stand up for themselves. The cost of resisting seems greater than giving in. For bandits, this is fine; they come after the harvests and take all they want, including young women. They kill anyone who resists, and leave the rest to starve. It’s pretentious to assume to change the order of things, but human beings are known for being surprising.

Hungry samurai

What you wouldn’t do for money you might do because you’re hungry. You might be too old or too young to work for a wealthy lord. You might make a sacrifice because you know it’s right. You might feel sorry for the farmers; you might like a farmer’s daughter. Maybe your parents were farmers and they had been killed by bandits. Maybe you’ll risk your life for honor, or because a friend asked you to.