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.
Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Daisuke Katō
Crew: Akira Kurosawa (Screenplay), Shinobu Hashimoto (Screenplay), Hideo Oguni (Screenplay), Akira Kurosawa (Director), Sōjirō Motoki (Producer), Yuji Hamada (Accountant)
Country: Japan
Language: 日本語
Studio: TOHO
Runtime: 207 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Apr 26, 1954
IMDb: 2.5
Keywords:epic, martial arts, japan, samurai, sword, peasant, village, looting, rice, fencing, moral ambiguity, black and white, battle, bandit, practice, criterion, jidaigeki, 16th century
