A village in feudal Japan needs protection from bandits, so a samurai who has fallen on hard times gathers six others to help him teach the villagers to defend themselves, with food as their pay. Akira Kurosawa directs this epic.
Toshiro Mifune plays Kikuchiyo and Takashi Shimura is Kambei Shimada, with Yoshio Inaba as Gorobei, Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyuzo and Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi. A TOHO production running 207 minutes.
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Starring: Toshirō Mifune as Kikuchiyo, Takashi Shimura as Kambei Shimada, Yoshio Inaba as Gorobei Katayama, Seiji Miyaguchi as Kyuzo, Minoru Chiaki as Heihachi Hayashida, Daisuke Katō as Shichiroji
- Studio: TOHO
- Genre: Action, Drama
- Year: 1954
- Runtime: 207 min
