The Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. In the Sixteenth Century, in Japan, a poor village is frequently looted by armed bandits losing their crop of rice. Their patriarch Grandpa advises the villagers to hire a group of samurais to defend their village. Four farmers head to town to seek out their possible protectors, but they just can offer three meals of rice per day and lodging for the samurai. They succeed in hiring the warming-hearted veteran Kambei Shimada that advises that they need six other samurai to protect their lands. Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, the group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. Kambei agrees, although there is no material gain or honor to be had in the endeavor. Soon he attracts a pair of followers: a young samurai named Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), who quickly becomes Kambei's disciple, Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), a burly clown whose prowess with a sword does not match his arrogance, he claims to be a samurai but is later revealed to be the son of a farmer, Kambei assembles four other samurais, including Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), a quiet master swordsman who lets his weapon speak for him, also he manges to recruit Heihachi (Minoru Chiaki), Shichiroji (Daisuke Kato), and Gorobei (Yoshio Inaba) . Together they consolidate the