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Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film takes place in 1587 during a time when many states in Japan were at war. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven masterless samurai (ronin) to fight bandits who steal their crops. The film was the first samurai movie that Kurosawa ever directed. He had originally wanted to direct a film abouta single day in the life of a samurai but later discovered in his research a story about samurai defendingfarmers. The film was originally going to be called Six Samurai until Kurosawa decided to create a seventhcharacter who was a little different and had an appealing, zany personality.
七武士是一部上映于1954年的日本動作情景電影，編劇兼剪輯、導演是黑澤明。電影發生在日本戰國時代的1587年。講述的是一群村民雇傭了七名武士來擊退偷取麥收的強盜。這是黑澤明導演的第一部武士電影。起初，他想導演一部關于武士生活的電影，但是之后他發現了關于武士護衛村民的故事。影片最初叫做“六武士”，一直到黑澤明想創造第七個人物角色時才更改過來，這最后一個武士有著與眾不同的性格。
Seven Samurai is described as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It is one of a select few Japanese films to become widely known in the West and was voted onto Sight & Sound's list of the ten greatest films of all time in 1982. It ranked #1 in Empire magazine's "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. It was the single largest movie ever made by a Japanese filmmaker at the time and was a technical and creative masterpiece. At 207 minutes long, it was the longest picture of Kurosawa's career. Its influence can be clearly witnessed in many Hollywood movies that have been made since, especially those that have a group of heroes all fighting for the same cause.
人們認為七武士是史上最偉大的電影之一，也是影響最深遠的電影之一。這是西方所里了解的為數不多的日本電影之一，1982年，這部電影被人們選為視覺&聲效電影中的十佳電影之一。2000年，帝國雜志將這部電影列在了100部最佳電影列表之中。比起當時，這是日本電影導演所制作的規模最大的電影作品，電影在創作上體現了精湛的技術，而且是一部富有創造力的巨作。影片長達207分鐘，這是黑澤明生涯中最長的一部電影。自此之后，許多好萊塢電影也受到了這部電影的影響，特別是電影中多了許多為同一事業而奮斗的英雄。
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