Seven Samurai

One of the most thrilling, beloved movie epics of all time, Akira Kurosawa’s immensely influential Seven Samurai is a defining work of Japanese cinema.

It charts the story of the inhabitants of a rural Japanese village, anxiously awaiting the arrival of harvest as a group of bandits have sworn they’ll steal their crops and destroy their livelihood. With no other options, they enlist a veteran samurai (Takashi Shimura) to defend them – and he gathers six more soldiers to protect the village from their attackers.