Shichinin no samurai

Plot summary

A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village. Written by Colin Tinto {cst@imdb.com}

A village is constantly attacked by well armed bandits. One day after an attack they seek the wisdom of an elder who tells them they cannot afford weapons, but they can find men with weapons, samurai, who will fight for them, if they find samurai who are in down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come from. They find a very experienced samurai with a good heart who agrees to recruit their party for them. He selects five genuine samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village to protect it from the forty plus bandits. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}

Cast

	Takashi Shimura	...	Kambei Shimada
	Toshirô Mifune	...	Kikuchiyo
	Yoshio Inaba	...	Gorobei Katayama
	Seiji Miyaguchi	...	Kyuzo
	Minoru Chiaki	...	Heihachi Hayashida
	Daisuke Katô	...	Shichiroji
	Isao Kimura	...	Katsushiro Okamoto
	Keiko Tsushima	...	Shino
	Yukiko Shimazaki	...	Rikichi's Wife
	Kamatari Fujiwara	...	Manzo, father of Shino
	Yoshio Kosugi	...	Mosuke
	Bokuzen Hidari	...	Yohei
	Yoshio Tsuchiya	...	Rikichi
	Kokuten Kodo	...	Gisaku, the Old Man
	Jiro Kumagai	...	Peasant

ey can find men with weapons, samurai, who will fight for them, if they find samurai who are in down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come from. They find a very experienced samurai with a good heart who agrees to recruit their party for them. He selects five genuine samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village to protect it from the forty plus bandits. Written by John Vogel {jlvogel@comcast.net}