"SEVEN SAMURAI" "Production SOJIRO MOTOKI" "Screenplay AKIRA KUROSAWA SHINOBU HASHIMOTO" " HIDEO OGUNI" "Photography ASAICHI NAKAI" "Art Direction SO MATSUYAMA" "Lighting SHIGERU MORI" "Recording FUMIO YANOKUCHI" "Music FUMIO HAYASAKA" "Historical Research K. EZAKI (Folklore) Y. SUGINO (Fencing) IENORI KANEKO" " SHIGERU ENDO (Archery)" "Assistant Director HIROMICHI HORIKAWA" "Hair  Makeup JUNJIRO YAMADA" "Film Developed by Toho Developing Co." "Editing Manager HIROSHI NEZU" "Cast of Characters" "Kikuchiyo TOSHIRO MIFUNE" "Kambei TAKASHI SHIMURA" "Shino KEIKO TSUSHIMA" "Wife YUKIO SHIMAZAKI" "Farmer Manzo KAMATARI FUJIWARA" "Schichiroji DAISUKE KATO" "Katsushiro KO KIMURA" "Heihachi MINORU CHIAKI" "Kyuzo SEIJI MIYAGUCHI" "Farmer Mosuke YOSHIO KOSUGI" "Farmer Yohei BOKUZEN HIDARI" "Gorobei YOSHIO INABA" "Farmer Rikichi YOSHIO YSUCHIYA" "Grandad KUNINORI TODO" "Thief EIJIRO TONO" "Bandit Scout KICHIJIRO UEDA" "Coolie A JUN TATARA" "Bun-Seller ATSUSHI WATANABE" "Blind Player SO JIN" "Bandit Chieftain SHIMPEI TAKAGI" "Directed by AKIRA KUROSAWA" "In the early 16th Century, Japan was in the throes of civil wars... and the farmers everywhere were being crushed... under the iron heels of cruel bandits." "Let's take this village too!" "Wait!" "We looted rice here last fall" "I'm afraid they have nothing yet" "Let's come back after the barley has ripened" "Is there no god to protect us?" "Land-tax!" "Forced labor!" "War!" "Drought!" "Then, the bandits!" "God must want us farmers to starve!" "That's true, better we die" "Stop complaining!" "That won't help!" "Let's go see the Magistrate!" "Let's appeal to him!" "What's the use?" "He'd come only after the bandits are gone!" "Let's give everything to the bandits!" "All the food we have!" "And then hang ourselves!" "That might get some action out of him!" "Let's make bamboo spears" "Let's kill the bandits, kill them all!" "They won't come back again, if we kill them all" "I don't like this idea" "That's an impossibility!" "You kill samurai on the run- but not bandits!" "Stop it!" "No time for quarrelling!" "We haven't a chance against them!" "What would happen if we were defeated?" "We'd all be murdered!" "They kill even babies in the womb!" "Enough!" "Better to kill or be killed, than feel like this" "Farmers are born to suffer" "That's our lot" "Let's greet them meekly" "Give up our crops" "Just beg them to leave something so we won't starve" "On our knees let's beg them, so we can live" "You think they'll listen?" "You've forgotten?" "Rice we're eating, how..." "Let's go see the Grandad!" "And ask his advice!" "Negotiate with them." "Depend on who you do your dealing with" "They're worse than wolves." "If you give your legs!" "next they ask for your arms!" "They know no limit" "They'd come again in the fall!" "But if we lose..." "Huh?" "So we lose!" "Without the crop, we'll die, anyway" "We'll fight!" "That's too reckless!" "We're farmers." "We don't know how to fight" "We'll hire samurai!" "Hire samurai?" "Never heard of such a thing!" "I saw it with my own eyes" "When your native village was burned" "As I was escaping to this village, I saw... one village unburned." "It had hired samurai" "But Grandad, there are many different kinds of villages" "We're eating gruel." "How do we feed samurai?" "We could eat millet!" "But will samurai fight for us, just for food?" "They're awfully proud!" "Find hungry samurai!" "Even bears come out of the forests, when they're hungry" "What insolence!" "Poor as I am, I'm no beggar!" "Fool!" "I warned you" "It has ripened" "Of course." "Ten days have gone by" "What shall we do?" "This is an early kind." "Not like ours!" "I'm soaked to the bones!" "Found any samurai, cheap, strong and willing?" "Some leftovers." "I sell 'em cheap" "That's a laugh!" "What's so funny?" "He's blind!" "How about you?" "No, thanks" "I'd rather eat horse dung" "He's broke!" "I cleaned him out last night" "He drew his sword so we beat him up" "He's dead broke" "They only eat millet" "Is that true?" "Eat right or you'll become night-blind!" "You can have them for a handful of rice" "You and everybody else" "What a waste it was!" "With that rice we could have gotten forty of those buns!" "Stop it!" "Am I not right?" "The suckers are mad!" "What a waste!" "What foolishness!" "He ate plenty" "He drank plenty" "Then he beat me up and left" "A smart samurai!" "How different from the one who pretends to be sleeping!" "Let's get out of here!" "Let's go home!" "He's crying!" "He misses his wife!" "I would pay plenty to see them love!" "Let's go home!" "Please!" "Go home!" "How can you hire samurai, you can't even buy buns" "Besides, we don't know anything at all about samurai" "As much as we know about seeds" "The strong ones are beyond our control" "Any who seem to be willing are weaklings!" "I was defeated last night only because I was hungry" "Liar!" "You had money to gamble away!" "Want more trouble?" "There's a fight!" "This way, this way!" "Stop it!" "It's depressing!" "Play on!" "Play loud!" "We back you!" "You want to go home!" "And yet..." "But I could never negotiate with them!" "What else can we do?" "You have to deal with the bandits!" "All right!" "I see!" "But " "What will you offer them this time?" "Your daughter?" "She's very pretty!" "It may work!" "What's happening?" "A thief is in that barn!" "He was discovered and ran in there!" "How many thieves?" "Just one" "One?" "What's holding you back?" "But we're helpless" "He kidnapped a child" "Says he'll kill him if we attack!" "Listen!" "Hear that?" "Poor kid!" "They've been in there since last night." "Poor kid!" "His voice has gotten hoarse!" "He's seven" "His poor parents!" "But what's wrong with that samurai?" "Shaving his head?" "A mystery" "He's promised to save the boy." "He asked for two rice-balls" "Then he began shaving and asked for a priest's robe" "I don't understand!" "This is a priest" "I'm a priest!" "I'm not after you!" "Don't worry" "The boy must be starved" "Don't come in!" "I brought food" "For you, too!" "Take it!" "What's the matter?" "Throw it in!" "No complaints about that samurai?" "Hurry." "Before he gets to town" "What is it?" "My name is Katsushiro Okamoto" "Make me your disciple!" "Disciple?" "My name is Kimbei Shimada." "I'm a ronin" "And I have no disciples" "Rise." "We can talk" "Please!" "Take me as your disciple!" "Rise!" "Let's talk as we walk" "You embarrass me" "You're overestimating me" "Listen" "I'm not a man with any special skill" "But I've had plenty of experience in battles," "losing battles, all of them" "In short, that's all I am" "Drop such an idea for your own good" "No, sir." "My decision has been made!" "I'll follow you, sir" "I forbid it" "I can't afford to take a kid with me" "What do you want?" "What do you want?" "You are rude!" "Mind your own business, kid!" "Are you a samurai?" "Sure!" "I wonder" "Who is he?" "Pay no attention" "Please, sir!" "I fever to ask!" "Why don't you go home?" "Haven't you had enough yet?" "After he's fed, he'll leave" "It's impossible" "Sir!" "Why not arm them with...?" "I thought of that, too" "But sir" "This would not be a game" "A band of forty bandits!" "Two or three samurai could accomplish nothing" "Defense is harder than offense" "Mountains in back of the village?" "Can horses get over them?" "Fields in front" "The village is wide open to horsemen... until the fields are flooded" "One guard for each direction takes four" "Two more as a reserve" "You'll need at least seven, including me" "We can afford seven, eh?" "The Grandad said "four," didn't he?" "But three more" "Wait!" "I haven't said "Yes!"" "I'm only thinking" "In the first place, it's not easy to find seven reliable samurai" "Especially when the total reward adds up to three meager meals" "And the fun of it, if I may say so" "Besides..." "I'm tired of fighting" "Maybe it's my age" "I'm glad I wasn't born a farmer!" "A dog is luckier!" "Shit!" "Take it from me!" "Go hang yourselves!" "You shut your mouth!" "What?" "I'm just talking straight!" "Talking straight?" "Don't you have any pity for them?" "Don't make me laugh!" "Do you have any pity?" "If you do, why don't you help them?" "Want a fight?" "Stop it!" "Stop it!" "Hey!" "Samurai!" "Look at this!" "This is for you!" "Know what those suckers eat?" "Millet!" "They're feeding you on rice, and living on millet" "They're giving their best!" "I see" "Say no more!" "I won't waste your food" "Look!" "Manzo's coming home!" "Where are Rikichi and Yohei?" "Still looking for samurai!" "You really think samurai would come?" "Yes, they're coming." "Seven" "Yes, seven" "Hmm... seven!" "You said "four," so I opposed" "I thought we'd probably have to hire ten" "But, if I told you that, you'd bring fifteen" "See what I mean?" "Grandad!" "I am worried!" "Our girls are crazy about samurai" "The villagers won't like the samurai to get them" "Fool!" "Have you forgotten the bandits?" "What's the use of worrying about your beard, when your head's about to be taken?" "You need my help?" "To fight whom?" "Katsuishiro!" "Hold your weapon tightly" "And hit him as he comes" "Hit as hard as you can!" "Splendid!" "Please forgive us" "My name is Kambei Shimada" "I must find some talented men, right away" "Forgive us" "What is this?" "Intolerable!" "Outrageous!" "Forgive me." "You see, a war is about to start with a band of bandits" "What Clan?" "Our employer, as a matter of fact is a village of farmers" "A job promising no pay or reward, except three square meals while we're on the job" "What stupidity!" "My ambition is a bit bigger" "I'm sorry" "Is that final?" "Yes!" "What a big loss, sir!" "So alert a fencer!" "What's the matter?" "That samurai is all right." "But I'm worried about the other six" "Don't be foolish!" "See them first." "Then, start worrying!" "Try him!" "One moment, sir!" "Like the last time?" "Yes." "For your training" "Please!" "No jokes" "Forgive me" "Interesting" "But..." "I realize that the farmers are suffering" "I think I understand why you accepted" "But, I'll accept because your character fascinates me" "The deepest friendship often comes through a chance meeting" "Your name?" "Gorobei Katayama" "Sounds strong, but..." "Yohei, what's wrong!" "Hurry up!" "Come on!" "What's wrong, Yohei?" "The rice is gone!" "You fool!" "So I told you so..." "I tried my best to watch it!" "At night I slept, holding on to it!" "I'll get some from home!" "But, what will we do until you get back?" "It's all gone, except just a handful" "Don't be silly!" "Here he comes!" "This is wonderful!" "Thank Heaven!" "It's so good to find you alive!" "I'd give you up for lost!" "How did you get away?" "I laid low in the ditch, under the water plants" "When the castle burned down, and fell upon me," "I thought that was my end!" "Were you terrified?" "Not particularly" "Are you fed up with fighting?" "As a matter of fact," "I'm preparing for a tough war" "It will bring us neither money nor fame." "Want to join?" "Yes!" "Maybe we die this time" "I never knew they were so scarce" "What are you after, sir?" "Samurai" "There's one in my yard, but poor quality" "I was astonished by his gay indifference" "He came in saying:" ""Feed me." "I have no money but I'll cut your firewood."" "I liked his frankness" "Haven't you ever seen firewood cut?" "You seem to enjoy it" "Oh, that's my nature" "You're good" "But I'm better at killing enemies" "Killed many?" "Well" " It's impossible to kill 'em all" "So I usually run away" "A splendid principle!" "Thank you" "Incidentally," "Interested in killing thirty bandits?" "Let's begin" "Too bad." "A tie" "No" "I won" "You did?" "If we had fought seriously, you'd have been cut and dead" "Let's see!" "No use" "Don't you see?" "A real sword will kill you." "It's no use" "Wait!" "Halt!" "You can say whatever you want" "What a waste" "It's so obvious" "Find any?" "Missed one" "A first-class swordsman" "A lost fish looks big" "But, I saw his prowess with my own eyes" "He is terrific!" "A man interested only in perfecting his skill" "So his answer was "No!"" "Too bad!" "I told him where to find me, though" "And you?" "I caught one" "His fencing is... second class" "But, quite a character" "A cheerful fellow" "Good company in adversity" "Much obliged" "I caught one too, to tell you the truth" "That one dressed like a peddler?" "Yes." "He was my right hand man for years" "I'll bring clean water" "I'm Heinachi Hayashida, a fencer of the Wood Cut School" "Well, three more to find" "Three?" "Two" "Can't take a kid" "Sir" "I know" "I know your line" "I was a young man like you, once" ""Train yourself" ""Distinguish yourself in war" ""Because somebody, maybe a war lord!"" "But, time flies" "Before your dream materializes you get gray hair" "By that time, your parents and friends are dead and gone" "Go back home, leave in the morning you had enough training the last few days" "Good experience" "Please, sir!" "Take him, by all means." "Please!" "But..." "Do!" "Even though you call him a kid" "Kids are often more willing than grownups" "Provided that we treated him like a grownup" "So, let's treat him like one" "Two more" "Just one more, I think" "Hello!" "You've come!" "Thank you" "And...?" "We leave tomorrow" "Tomorrow?" "Let's forget the seventh." "We have no time to lose!" "Well" "Sir!" "Sir!" "That's all right" "Sir!" "I know." "Don't mention it!" "Hey!" "I found a samurai!" "A real tough one!" "A fee-ro-shus one!" "He is like a wild dog" "He drank with him later" "I asked him." "He's coming!" "Shall I...?" "What are you doing?" "Testing" "That's not fair!" "Just watch" "A good samurai will dodge it" "But he's drunk" "A real samurai would never get so drunk" "Here I am!" "See, I told you so!" "Who hit me?" "Oh!" "It's you" "I remember your head!" "I even see it in my dreams!" "You had the nerve to ask me if I was a samurai!" "Look!" "Though clad in rags, I'm a real samurai!" "I've been looking for you ever since that time!" "Wanted to show you this!" "Look at this!" "You'll know..." "I belong to a respectable samurai family" "This one is me!" "Kikuchiyo?" "Is that your name?" "Yes, sir!" ""Born on February 17, the 2nd year of Tensho"" "What's so funny?" "You don't look thirteen!" "Listen!" "If you are the Kikuchiyo mentioned here you must be thirteen years old" "Where did you steal this?" "Steal?" "To hell with samurai!" "Damn!" "Steady, Thirteen!" "Sir Kikuchiyo!" "Courage, Thirteen!" "To hell with samurai!" "Is he really samurai?" "He thinks he is" ""Take good care of this!"" "Take me with you!" "What's the matter, Dad?" "Why do you stare at me like that?" "Shino!" "Cut your hair short!" "Cut your hair!" "Dress like a boy!" "I don't understand!" "Cut, I tell you!" "I tell you because I love you!" "Samurai are coming!" "You don't know what they'll do to you" "Come and cut your hair." "No, I won't!" "But Manzo's seen those samurai!" "And he cut her hair!" "You're not worried because yours are boys, but..." "I get it." "So you keep my daughter." "She'll be safer at your place" "Fool!" "I'm talking about Manzo!" "He says he's worried about our village" "But he's only worried about his daughter!" "Damn!" "You're a prize fool!" "All who have young daughters are terrified" "What are we to do?" "The samurai are coming any day now!" "Come!" "Let's go see the Grandad!" "Don't stand there!" "Go!" "Get going!" "We should do something before those samurai get here!" "Still following us!" "I don't see him!" "Given up?" "Isn't it strange?" "Now, I sort of... miss him!" "This way!" "Sheeyit!" "So that's our castle, eh?" "Huh!" "I'd hate to die in a dung heap, though" "We aren't asking you to" "Here we are!" "I brought the samurai!" "What's wrong?" "Here are the samurai!" "Huh!" "What's wrong?" "Well, what kind of hospitality is this?" "What does this mean?" "Hey!" "What's the matter?" "Welcome your guests!" "Let's go see Grandad" "He handles all our affairs" "Village patriarch, eh?" "He's granting us an audience" "What an honor!" "Let's go" "They're being very foolish indeed" "Farmers are always worrying about one thing or another" "Rains, dry weather, winds" "In other words, they wake up worrying and go to bed the same way" "Today's no exception" "They're just scared, meaninglessly scared, that's all" "But, listen" "Why are they afraid of us?" "Yet they expect us to do something for them?" "The bandits!" "Please!" "Samurai, please!" "Help!" "Bandits are coming!" "Please help!" "Keep calm!" "Calm down!" "Answer me clearly!" "From which direction are they coming?" "From mountain!" "From front road!" "Those who saw bandits, step forward!" "Who saw bandits?" "Who beat the alarm?" "I did!" "Don't be scared!" "No bandits are coming!" "You suckers!" "You welcomed us as you would a plague!" "But when you heard the alarm..." "Oh!" "Samurai!" "You turned to worship us" "Fools!" "Any objection, Grandad?" "No" "It's all right now" "Well, looks like maybe he's useful after all" "So now we're seven, eh?" "Sorry this place is so filthy" "But, where will you live?" "I'll sleep in the stable" "With horses?" "No!" "The bandits took them last year" "A stable is a nice place to sleep with one's wife" "I have no wife!" "Fool!" "What's your real name?" "I don't remember" "Give me a good name" "Kikuchiyo!" "It becomes you" "How would you attack this village?" "I'd charge down from the mountain" "Down this road?" "I'd do the same" "WEST" "How would you defend?" "Shichiroji sure knows his business" "Look at those logs" "He plans a fence" "Your old right hand man, eh?" "Remember!" "A war is run" "We run, both in offense and defense" "When you can't run, it's time to die" "SOUTH" "After the harvest, we'll flood here" "Then this will be well defended" "But will we have time to do that?" "Spear!" "Go ahead and spear!" "Look!" "I'm a bandit!" "Come on!" "Next!" "EAST" "We'll destroy this bridge" "This border will then be safe" "What about those houses?" "Have to be evacuated" "That mill, too?" "That old man is stubborn, you know" "Remember" "You're afraid of the enemies" "But, they're afraid of you, too!" "You're splendid!" "Splendid scarecrows!" "But they're men, not sparrows, not crows!" "You, chewing that cud!" "Stop it!" "You are not a cow!" "You on the end!" "Step forward!" "I mean you!" "You!" "If you want to watch, bring money" "What is this?" "A spear, sir" "Where did you get it?" "Grown on a bush?" "I know!" "Samurai on the run!" "If you have one, the others must have them also" "Have you?" "Do - you - have - spears?" "NORTH" "Looks peaceful here." "But a real danger spot" "Katsushiro!" "We're leaving now!" "Yes, Sir!" "I'm coming!" "Still a child" "Are you one of the villagers?" "A girl?" "A boy?" "If you are a boy, why aren't you drilling?" "Picking flowers during such a crisis!" "Come!" "Good!" "Good!" "Problem is here." "Hey!" "What are you doing!" "A big haul!" "What have you got?" "Taken from a samurai on the run" "Where did you get those?" "In this village?" "At Manzo's" "Don't like them?" "A real fine one!" "What's the matter?" "You wanted these things, didn't you?" "Shame on you!" "They stripped those from samurai they murdered" "I know." "How dare you...!" "One who has never been hunted would not understand" "Go away!" "It's nothing!" "I'd like to kill every farmer in this village!" "A fine idea!" "Hey, you!" "What do you all think of farmers?" "Saints?" "Bah!" "They're foxy beasts!" "They say: "We've no rice, we've no wheat." "We've got nothing!"" "But they have!" "They have everything!" "Dig under the floors!" "Or search the barns!" "You'll find plenty!" "Rice!" "Salt!" "Beans!" "Sake!" "Look into the canyons!" "Hidden farms!" "They pose as saints but are full of lies!" "If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated!" "Listen!" "Farmers are- stingy, foxy, blubbering mean, stupid and, murderous!" "God damn!" "That's what they are!" "But then!" "Who made them such beasts?" "You did!" "You samurai did it!" "You burn their villages!" "Destroy their farms!" "Steal their food!" "Force them to labor!" "Take their women!" "And kill them if they resist!" "So what should farmers do?" "Damn..." "Damn..." "You are a farmer's son." "Aren't you?" "Has... has anything happened, sir?" "Nothing, Grandad" "Everything is all right" "I sleep here from tonight" "I don't like their company" "Fool!" "Don't make yourself small!" "This is your home?" "You gave them your house and you sleep here?" "Scared to death!" "Go to sleep!" "It's like old times" "It's so quiet" "I can't imagine the mountains being infested with bandits" "Sheeyit!" "If I had woman now..." "Where to?" "The mountain?" "To practice" "No women up there!" "Sometimes you sound pretty sharp" "What are you making now?" "Our banner" "In battle, we'll need something to wave" "What does it mean?" "This says "Farm." Farmers." "This village" "These circles?" "Us" "Only six, eh?" "I'm out?" "The triangle represents you, Sir." "Kikuchiyo" "It's rice." "Eat it." "But..." "I tasted millet, for the first time" "It was terrible" "Go ahead" "Don't be shy." "Want to be alone?" "I won't eat it" "Why?" "I brought it for you" "I'd rather give it to Kyuemon's Granny" "Kyuemon's Granny?" "I'm not hungry now" "I'll eat later" "You eat" "I'll save mine" "What's going on?" "Tell me!" "This is terrible" "No relatives?" "No, sir." "The bandits..." "I wish I could die right away" "I want to die soon, to escape from this misery" "But, then even in the world to come, there must be great misery, I'm afraid" "There's not!" "No war, no bandits, in the next world" "No misery, either" "How do you know?" "Ever been there?" "Why yell so much?" "I hate all wretched people!" "I feel disgusted with them!" "Damn!" "I want to do something" "Save that feeling for the bandits" "Didn't you..." "Did you..." "Did you, see me today, over there, with..." "The girl?" "Yes" "Why didn't you tell...?" "You want me to?" "Give us some rice!" "Give us white rice!" "We have no rice!" "Don't shout, you'll get hungry" "Give us rice!" "The white rice ball!" "Listen, you brats!" "This is all we can give you" "If we give you more, we'll be..." "See?" "Say!" "Hasn't any one of you got a pretty sister?" "Anyone?" "When are you going to harvest?" "After ten days" "At top speed how long will it take?" "Three days, at least." "I want to flood it, then" "We need a moat at the south border, so no horsemen can approach" "This moat need not be wide" "Well, we'll dig a waterway and flood the farm" "The work can be done in one day" "Thanks" "And there's another thing" "Those three houses and this mill must be evacuated when the harvest is completed" "What?" "Me evacuate?" "I'm sorry" "We can't help it" "We can't cover this big an area" "Listen!" "The crops will soon be harvested" "Then, the bandits will come" "Let's be ready" "From now on we must be on the alert" "We'll harvest in groups, not individually" "From tomorrow, you'll live in groups" "Remember!" "You move as a group, not as individuals" "Listen, men!" "Love your wives plenty tonight" "It's stupid!" "Come, neighbors!" "Throw them away!" "Let's not risk ourselves to protect others!" "Come!" "Let's protect our own homes!" "Stop!"