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10 Best Movies Like Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai'

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#1
The Desperado Trail

The Desperado Trail

1965★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for ...

#2
Christmas Vacation '95

Christmas Vacation '95

1995★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. ...

#3
The Good Witch's Garden

The Good Witch's Garden

2009★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of TV Movie. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Middleton prepares for its bicentennial, and Grey House is to be the party venue. Good witch Cassie is remodeling it as B&B. her first and only guest, Nick Chasen, claims to be...

#4
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

2004★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A masked villain wreaks mayhem on the city of Coolsville with a monster machine that creates real-life versions of Mystery Inc.'s former foes like The 10,000 Volt Ghost, The Cotton...

#5
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

1997★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The joke's on absent-minded scientist Wayne Szalinski when his troublesome invention shrinks him, his brother and their wives so effectively that their children think they've compl...

#6
Dunston Checks In

Dunston Checks In

1996★ 5.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Seven Samurai' for fans of Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Hotel manager Robert Grant is forced by his boss to postpone his family vacation when a hotel critic checks in. Trouble is, the critic is really a villainous jewel thief with an or...