The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

TOHO COMPANY PRESENTS

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 SHIMPEl 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!