Seven Samurai (1954)

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Country: Japan

I'm gonna say it plain and simple, if you haven't seen Seven Samurai, you can't call yourself a cinephile, a film buff, or whatever the hell you refer to the fact of loving and being addicted to cinema, because this one is the quintessential Kurosawa's film, and in terms of innovation, story telling and filmmaking techniques is at the top. 

 

Three hours of action, well developed characters and choreographies shot in a superb way as the result of a perfectionist filmmaker like Kurosawa, who spent many days in the editing room in order to join the puzzle . The legacy of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai can be seen in movies like John Sturges' "The Magnificent Seven" (which was the American adaptation of Seven Samurai) or in other American classics like the original Star Wars Saga and even in American pop-culture comics like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, that's the impact of Seven Samurai, an inspiring and beautiful action film.