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. A giant battle occurs when 40 bandits attack the village.
"It's impossible to imagine how the action genre would have developed without Akira Kurosawa's watershed 1954 movie Seven Samurai." -New York Daily News
"The glorious vigour and strength of this film is presented with such theatrical relish and flair: its energy flashes out of the screen like a sword." -The Guardian
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