Top 250 Challenge: 124*

Shichinin No Samurai
Number 5 on IMDb’s Top 250

Nominated by Mick

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village. Hilarity ensues.

Trivia: The only three samurai survivors, Shichiroji, Katsushiro and Kambei, were the first three title character actors to die in real life. Heihachi is the first of the Seven Samurai to die in the film, but that last of the actors to die in real life in 1999.

I do agree with Mick in that I am not sure why this is in the top ten, but is a good movie, and the time seemed to pass pretty fast for a 3 and a half hour movie. This movie was directed by the most famous Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. This movie was the inspiration to the Magnificent Seven. Thanks Mick.

* The IMDb Top 250 list is a dynamic list that changes every few days as people vote for movies on the website. So as a result, my numbers of watched movies may fluctuate a little from time to time. In this case, The Lost Weekend and Brokeback Mountain (here we go with Brokeback again, not that there is anything wrong with that) were recently added to the list and the movies that dropped off didn't change my number, which is why it jumped by 3 from 121 to 124.