who directed seven samurai
Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa; it starred his longtime... Seven Samurai is a 1954 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa; it starred his longtime collaborators Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune in two of the lead roles. It is considered by many Western critics to be the finest Japanese film of all time, and a few of them consider it to be the finest film ever made, period.