
Overview
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Details
- Director
- Akira Kurosawa
- Writer
- Hideo Oguni
- Original Language
- Japanese
- Budget
- $2,000,000
Cast
Daisuke Kat?
Isao Kimura
Kamatari Fujiwara
Keiko Tsushima
Minoru Chiaki
Seiji Miyaguchi
Takashi Shimura
Toshir? Mifune
Yoshio Inaba
Yukiko Shimazaki
Keywords
16th century
awestruck
bandit
battle
black and white
bushi
domineering
epic
fencing
japan
jidaigeki
looting
martial arts
moral ambiguity
peasant
plunder
practice
rice
samurai
sword
village
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