• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1954-04-26
  • Runtime207 minutes
  • TaglineUnmatched for suspense and spectacle!
  • Revenue105,000,000$
  • GenreAction, Drama
  • Production
    CompaniesTOHO
  • Budget2,000,000$

Movie Overview

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.

Casts

Toshirō Mifune

Takashi Shimura

Yoshio Inaba

Seiji Miyaguchi

Minoru Chiaki

Daisuke Katō

Isao Kimura

Keiko Tsushima

Yukiko Shimazaki

Kamatari Fujiwara

Yoshio Kosugi

Bokuzen Hidari

Yoshio Tsuchiya

Kokuten Kōdō

Eijirō Tōno

Jun Tatara

Atsushi Watanabe

Toranosuke Ogawa

Isao Yamagata

Kichijirō Ueda

Sôjin Kamiyama

Gen Shimizu

Keiji Sakakida

Shinpei Takagi

Shin Ōtomo

Toshio Takahara

Hiroshi Hayashi

Sachio Sakai

Ichirō Chiba

Noriko Sengoku

Noriko Honma

Masanobu Ōkubo

Hideo Shibuya

Senkichi Ōmura

Shōichi Hirose

Akira Tani

Akio Kusama

Haruo Nakajima

Yasuhisa Tsutsumi

Shigeo Katō

Haruko Toyama

Takuzō Kumagai