Editing Seven Samurai (section)

===Box office===
''Seven Samurai'' was well received by Japanese audiences, earning a [[Theatrical rental|distribution rental]] income of {{JPY|268 million}},<ref name="Kinema">{{cite magazine |title=キネマ旬報ベスト・テン85回全史 1924-2011 |magazine=[[Kinema Junpo]] |date=2012 |page=112 |publisher=Kinema Junposha}}</ref> within the first twelve months of its release.<ref name="JasperSharp"/> It was Japan's third-[[List of highest-grossing films in Japan|highest-grossing film]] of 1954, out-grossing ''[[Godzilla (1954 film)|Godzilla]]'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Die Top 10-Listen zu den größten Kassenerfolge der 1950er Jahre|trans-title=The top 10 lists of the biggest box office hits of the 1950s|url=http://www.nippon-kino.net/die-groumlszligten-japanischen-kassenerfolge-der-1950er-jahre.html|website=Nippon-Kino|language=de|access-date=February 27, 2015|archive-date=March 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160330164419/http://www.nippon-kino.net/die-groumlszligten-japanischen-kassenerfolge-der-1950er-jahre.html|url-status=live}}</ref> which had sold {{nowrap|9.7 million}} tickets<ref>{{cite book |last1=Forrest |first1=Jennifer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GscbAQAAIAAJ |title=The Legend Returns and Dies Harder Another Day: Essays on Film Series |date=August 12, 2008 |publisher=[[McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers]] |isbn=978-0-7864-3943-0 |page=214 |quote=''Gojira'' opened on November 3, 1954 and receipts were strong: the film recorded the best opening-day ticket sales ever in Tokyo and eventually grossed {{¥|152 million}} on {{nowrap|9.69 million}} paid admissions, though it was only the twelfth largest grossing film in Japan that year (well behind the leading Japanese film, the final installment of the sentimental ''Kimi no na wa?'' trilogy, and the leading import, ''Roman Holiday''). |access-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807021700/https://books.google.com/books?id=GscbAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> and grossed an inflation-adjusted equivalent of {{¥|13.7 billion}} or {{US$|{{To USD|13700|JPN|year=1998|round=yes}},000,000|long=no|year=1998|round=-6}} by 1998.<ref name="Nippon">{{cite book |last=Takarada |first=Akira |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=31hLAAAACAAJ |title=Nippon Godzilla Golden Legend |date=August 10, 1998 |publisher=[[Fusosha Publishing]] |isbn=978-4-594-02535-9 |language=ja |quote=「ゴジラ」の観客動員数、960万人。現在の入場料に換算すれば、興行収入は137億円となる。 |author-link=Akira Takarada |trans-quote=The number of spectators of "Godzilla" is {{nowrap|9.6 million}}. When converted to the current admission fee, the box office revenue would be {{¥|13.7 billion}}. |access-date=April 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807021620/https://books.google.com/books?id=31hLAAAACAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Overseas, the box-office income for the film's 1956 North American release is currently unknown.<ref>{{cite web |title=Seven Samurai |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2012434949/ |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620203159/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr2012434949/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The film's 2002 re-release grossed $271,841 in the United States and $4,124 in France.<ref>{{cite web |title=Seven Samurai (re-issue) (2002) |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sevensamurai02.htm |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=November 6, 2018 |archive-date=November 8, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108105305/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sevensamurai02.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> At the 2002 Kurosawa & Mifune Festival in the United States, the film grossed $561,692.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kurosawa & Mifune Festival |url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr11096581/ |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200621112026/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr11096581/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This adds up to at least $833,533 grossed in the United States. Other European re-releases between 1997-2018 sold 27,627 tickets.<ref>{{cite web |title=Film #5129: Shichinin no samurai |url=http://lumiere.obs.coe.int/web/film_info/?id=5129 |website=[[Lumiere (database)|Lumiere]] |publisher=[[European Audiovisual Observatory]] |access-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-date=June 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622015620/http://lumiere.obs.coe.int/web/film_info/?id=5129 |url-status=live }}</ref>