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Box office

Seven Samurai was well received by Japanese audiences, earning a distribution rental income of ¥268 million, within the first twelve months of its release. It was Japan's third- highest-grossing film of 1954, out-grossing Godzilla, which had sold 9.7 million tickets and grossed an inflation-adjusted equivalent of ¥13.7 billion or $105,000,000 (equivalent to $196,000,000 in 2023) by 1998.

Overseas, the box-office income for the film's 1956 North American release is currently unknown. The film's 2002 re-release grossed $271,841 in the United States and $4,124 in France. At the 2002 Kurosawa & Mifune Festival in the United States, the film grossed $561,692. This adds up to at least $833,533 grossed in the United States. Other European re-releases between 1997-2018 sold 27,627 tickets.