欧美电影简介：《七武士》（在线收听）

日本一个满目荒凉穷山恶水的山村里，每年麦收的时候，都会遭到强盗的袭击。这一年，村民们决定雇佣七名武士来保卫他们的村庄和收成，七名武士分别是勘兵卫、久藏、胜四郎、五郎、七郎、平八和菊千代。武士勘兵卫是个步伐矫健、作战经验丰富的人，他负责指挥全村人进行防御准备。强盗来偷袭了，武士久藏和菊千代杀死三名强盗。但武士平八却倒下了。武士和村民们手握铁锹、木棒死守村庄，志乃和武士胜四郎这对恋人却在仓房中互诉衷肠。天亮了，13名强盗骑马冲入村庄，格斗中，强盗杀死了武士久藏和五郎，又杀死了菊千代全家。菊千代怀着愤怒和仇恨杀死了最后一个敌人，自己也倒地而亡。强盗终于被尽数歼灭了，村民们也付出了很大代价，七名武士中阵亡四名，枯山上竖起了无数新的墓碑。

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 about a single day in the life of a samurai but later discovered in his research a story about samurai defending farmers. The film was originally going to be called Six Samurai until Kurosawa decided to create a seventh character who was a little different and had an appealing, zany personality.

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.