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.
Genre: Action, Drama Actors: Akio Kusama, Akira Kitchôji, Akira Tani, Akira Yamada, Atsushi Watanabe, Bokuzen Hidari, Chindanji Miyagawa, Daisuke Katō, Eijirō Tōno, Eisuke Nakanishi, Etsuo Saijo, Gen Shimizu, Gorô Amano, Gorô Sakurai, Haruko Toyama, Haruo Nakajima, Haruo Suzuki, Haruya Sakamoto, Hideo Ôtsuka, Hideo Shibuya, Hiroshi Akitsu, Hiroshi Hayashi, Hiroshi Sugi, Ichirō Chiba, Ippei Kawagoe, Isao Kimura, Isao Yamagata, Jirô Suzukawa, Jun Mikami, Jun Tatara, Junpei Natsuki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Kamayuki Tsubono, Kaneo Ikeda, Kazuo Imai, Keiji Sakakida, Keiko Tsushima, Ken Utsui, Kichijirō Ueda, Kiyoshi Kamoda, Kōji Iwamoto, Kôji Uno, Kokuten Kōdō, Kyôichi Kamiyama, Kyoko Mori, Kyōko Ozawa, Masaaki Tachibana, Masahide Matsushita, Masako Ôshiro, Masanobu Ôkubo, Masayoshi Kawabe, Matsue Ono, Megeru Shimoda, Michiko Kadono, Michiko Kawabe, Minoru Chiaki, Minoru Itō, Misao Suyama, Noriko Honma, Noriko Sengoku, Ren Yamamoto, Ryûtarô Amami, Sachio Sakai, Sanpei Mine, Seiji Miyaguchi, Senkichi Ōmura, Shigemi Sunagawa, Shigeo Katô, Shin Ōtomo, Shinpei Takagi, Shizuko Azuma, Shōichi Hirose, Shû Ôe, Sôjin Kamiyama, Sôkichi Maki, Taiji Naka, Takashi Narita, Takashi Shimura, Takeshi Katō, Takeshi Seki, Takuzô Kumagaya, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toku Ihara, Toranosuke Ogawa, Toriko Takahara, Toshiko Nakano, Toshio Takahara, Toshirō Mifune, Tsuneo Katagiri, Tsurue Ichimanji, Tsuruko Mano, Yasuhisa Tsutsumi, Yasumasa Ônishi, Yayoko Kitano, Yoshikazu Kawamata, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Kosugi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Yukiko Shimazaki, Yûko Togawa Directors: Akira Kurosawa Production: TOHO