The Seven Samurais

The Seven Samurais are the titular main protagonists in the 1954 legendary Japanese epic samurai drama film Seven Samurai.
They are seven rōnins that were hired by farmers to defend their village from bandits who will return later to steal their crops.
==History==
After a farmer heard bandits discuss preparing to raid their village again soon, he goes and tells everybody in the village. They ask Gisaku, the villages elder what to do. Gisaku states to hire samurais  to defend themselves but since they have nothing but food to offer, Giskau says them to find a hungry samurai. Later after having little success, they find Kambei, an aging but experienced rōnin rescuing a boy from a thief. A young samurai named Katsushirō asks to become Kambei's disciple. The village asks Kambei to help them which he accepts. He recruits with Shichiōji and Katsushirō as an assistant. They hire three friendly samurai: Gorōbei, Heihachi and Kyūzō. Although inexperienced, Katsushshirō is accepted due to having little time. The seventh and final the wild Kikichiyo joins, despite not being a samurai, he claims to be. On arrival, the samurai find the villagers cowering in their homes, refusing to greet them. Kikuchiyo feeling insulted, rings the village alarm, persuade them to come out and beg for their protection. The samurai are both pleased and amused by this, accepting him in their team. Slowly the samurais and the farmers both begin to trust each other as they train together. Katsushirō forms a relationship with Shino, a farmer's daughter, who is pretending at her father’s insistence as a boy for protection from the supposedly lustful samurai. However, the six professional samurai are angered when Kikuchiyo brings them armor and weapons, which the villagers most likely gained by killing injured or dying samurai. Kikuchiyo retorts in a rage that samurai are responsible for battles, raids, taxation and forced labor that devastate the villagers. By so doing, he reveals his origin as an orphaned farmer's son. The samurais anger turns to shame. Three bandit scouts are spotted. Two are killed, while another reveals the location of their camp. Against the wishes of the samurai, the villagers kill the prisoner. The samurai burn down the bandits' camp in a pre-emptive strike. Rikichi, a troubled villager who helps the samurai, breaks down when he sees his wife, who had apparently been kidnapped and made a concubine in a previous raid. On seeing Rikichi, she walks back into the burning hut. Heihachi is accidentally killed trying to save Rikichi, whose grief is compounded. When the bandits finally attack, they are confounded by new fortifications, including a moat and wooden fence. Several bandits are killed following Kambei's plan of allowing single horse-mounted bandits to enter the village, where they are trapped and killed by groups of farmers armed with bamboo spears. Gisaku’s family tries to save the old man when he refuses to abandon his mill on the outskirts of the village. All perish but a lone baby rescued by Kikuchiyo, who breaks down in tears, as it reminds him how he was orphaned. The bandits possess three matchlock firearms. Kyūzō ventures out alone and returns with one. An envious Kikuchiyo abandons his post—and his contingent of farmers—to bring back another. He is chastised by Kambei because, while he was gone, the bandits killed some of his farmers. The bandits attack again, and Gorobei is slain. That night, Kambei predicts that, due to their dwindling numbers, the bandits will make one last all-out attack. Meanwhile, Katsushirō and Shino's relationship is discovered by her father. He beats her until Kambei and the villagers intervene. Shichirōji calms everyone down by saying the couple should be forgiven because they are young and that passions can run high before any battle. The next morning in a torrential downpour, Kambei orders that the remaining thirteen bandits be allowed into the village. As the battle winds down, their leader, armed with a gun, hides in the women's hut and shoots Kyūzō, killing him. An enraged Kikuchiyo charges in and is shot, but heroically kills the bandit chief before dying. The rest of the invaders are slain. The three surviving samurai Kambei, Katsushirō and Shichirōji later watch from the funeral mounds of their comrades as the joyful villagers sing whilst planting their crops. Kambei reflects that it is another pyrrhic victory for the warriors: In the end we lost this battle too. The victory belongs to the peasants, not to us.
==The Samurais==
Kambei Shimada: The leader of them all, a wise elderly but an honorable experienced rōnin. He's portrayed by the late Takashi Shimura.
Kikuchiyo: An unpredictable, irritable and comic relief rogue who claims to be a samurai but really isn't. However, he proves later to be worth able. He's portrayed by the late Toshiro Mifune.
Shichirōji: Kambei's old friend and former second in command lieutenant. He's portrayed by the late Daisuke Katō.
Katsushirō Okamoto: The unexperienced son of a rich landowner rōnin, whom Kambei accepts as a disciple due to little time. He's portrayed by the late Isao Kimura.
Heihachi Hayashida: An friendly though less skilled samurai, whose friendly nature maintain his comrades morale in the face of adversity. He's portrayed by the late Minoru Chiaki.
Kyūzō: A serious, expressionless and highly skilled samurai. He's portrayed by the late Seiji Miyaguchi.
Gorōbei Katayama: a skilled archer, who acts as Kambei's lieutenant and helps create the master plan for the village's defense. He's portrayed by the late Yoshio Inaba.
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==Trivia==
*Seven Samurai is one of the most influential movies of all time, influencing Magnificent Seven and somewhat A Bug's Life.
*Ironically, the actors of the surviving samurais actually were the first ones to die in real life.
*The actor of Kikuchiyo named Kikochiyo his favorite role because he was able to be himself.
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