Seven Samurai
Directed byAkira Kurosawa
Produced bySōjirō Motoki
Screenplay by
  • Akira Kurosawa
  • Shinobu Hashimoto
  • Hideo Oguni
Starring
  • Toshiro Mifune
  • Takashi Shimura
  • Keiko Tsushima
  • Isao Kimura
  • Daisuke Katō
  • Seiji Miyaguchi
  • Yoshio Inaba
  • Minoru Chiaki
  • Kamatari Fujiwara
  • Kokuten Kōdō
  • Yoshio Tsuchiya
  • Eijirō Tōno
  • Jun Tatara
  • Atsushi Watanabe
  • Yoshio Kosugi
  • Bokuzen Hidari
  • Yukiko Shimazaki
Music byFumio Hayasaka
CinematographyAsakazu Nakai
Edited byAkira Kurosawa
Production
company
Toho
Distributed byToho
Release date
  • 26 April 1954 (1954-04-26)
Running time
207 minutes (with intermission)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Budget¥125 million ($1.1 million)
Box office¥268 million ($2.3 million)