STORY:
A mountain village is approached by a group of invading bandits. The bandit chief realizes that this village has been ransacked before, so he decides that they should save it until the barley is harvested in a few months. The conversation is overheard by one of the Villagers. At the point when he gets back with the unpropitious news, the miserable residents are partitioned about whether to give up their collect or retaliate against the crooks. They go to the village elder in a state of chaos, and he tells them that they should fight and hire samurai to help defend the village. A portion of the locals are upset by this idea, realizing that samurai are costly to join up and known to desire youthful ranch ladies, however acknowledge they must choose between limited options. The elderly villager tells them to "find hungry samurai" because he is aware that the poor villagers have nothing but food to offer any potential samurai.
The men attempt to enter the city but are initially unsuccessful. Every samurai they approach refuses them, sometimes in a snide manner, because they are unable to offer anything more than three meals per day. Similarly as all appears to be lost, they end up seeing a maturing samurai, Kambei, execute a finesse and sensational salvage of a young man kidnapped by a hoodlum. As Kambei strolls towards town a youthful samurai, Katsushiro, requests to turn into his helper. Kambei demands that he stroll with him as a companion. The farmers then ask Kambei to assist them in defending their village; He accepts, to their great delight. After that, Kambei, with Katsushir's help, hires four more masterless samurai (rnin) from the city one at a time, each with their own set of skills and characteristics. Despite Kambei's initial estimate of seven samurai, he intends to travel to the village with just the four he has selected because time is running out. He reluctantly agrees to take Katsushiro after being begged to do so by the villagers. Despite Kambei's protestations and attempts to drive him away, a comical fictitious samurai named Kikuchiyo, whom Kambei had rejected for the mission, follows them to the village from a distance.
The villagers hide in their homes in fear when the samurai arrive, hoping to shield their daughters and themselves from the supposedly dangerous warriors. Given that they have offered to defend the village for almost no reward, the samurai are insulted that they are not greeted warmly, and they seek an explanation from the village elder. Unexpectedly, an alarm goes off; The villagers rush out of their hiding places out of fear that the bandits have returned and beg the newly arrived samurai to protect them. It turns out that Kikuchiyo, who was merely a tag-along up until this point, has issued a false alarm. He scolds the frantic villagers for running to the samurai for help after the village had initially failed to welcome them. In this scene, Kikuchiyo demonstrates that his arrogant demeanor conceals some intelligence. The "seven samurai" are the group of wanderers who truly complete the group, and the six samurai accept him as belonging to them in a symbolic way.
The hired warriors and the villagers gradually develop trust as they get ready for the siege. However, Kyz, the most professional and composed of the samurai, makes the comment that he would like to kill everyone in the village when the villagers discover that the villagers have previously murdered and robbed samurai who are fleeing. "In the process of revealing his origins to Kambei, who suddenly perceives that Kikuchiyo is himself a farmer's son, the always clownish Kikuchiyo passionately castigates the other samurai for ignoring the hardships that the farmers face in order to survive and make a living despite the intimidation and harassment from the warrior class." Yet, who made them like this?" he inquires. " Did you?" The samurai's anger turns to shame, and Kambei humblely replies that nothing is the matter when the village elder, alerted by the commotion this revelation causes, asks if anything is the matter. The farmers are shown compassion when the samurai share their rice with an elderly woman who cries out that she just wants to die after her family was killed by bandits. The samurai continue their preparations without showing any animosity toward the farmers.
The construction of fortifications and the training of farmers for battle are among the ongoing preparations for the village's defense. Katsushir, the youngest samurai, falls in love with Shino, the villagers' daughter. Her father had forced Shino to pretend to be a boy in the hope that doing so would shield her from the samurai warriors' alleged lust.
As the ideal opportunity for the attack draws near, two outlaw scouts are killed, and one is caught and uncovers the area of the crook camp. Three of the samurai, alongside an aide from the town, choose to do a precautionary strike. A number of bandits are killed, but one of the samurai, Heihachi, is killed by a sword because his villager friend lost control of his emotions after seeing his imprisoned wife kill herself. Soon after this raid, a large number of bandits attempt to scale the barricades or cross the moats but are stopped by the samurai-constructed defenses, killing several of them. Be that as it may, the desperados have a predominant number of prepared warriors, and have three black powder rifles, and are subsequently ready to stand their ground. Kyz decides to go on his own raid to get one of the muskets, and several hours later, he has one. In order to retrieve a second musket, Kikuchiyo, envious of Kyz's praise and respect, particularly from Katsushir, leaves his group of farmers in charge. In spite of the fact that he succeeds, the outlaws assault the post, overpowering and killing large numbers of the ranchers. When the leader of the bandits charges this position, Kambei is forced to send reinforcements from the main post to drive the bandits out, leaving it undermanned. Gorobei is shot and killed as they flee, and it is revealed that Kikuchiyo's friend Yohei was killed at his post.
In addition to defense, the samurai's first move is to close a gap in the fortifications with a "wall" of spears, allowing the bandits to enter one at a time and then kill the one enemy. This is rehashed a few times with progress, albeit more than one scoundrel figures out how to enter the town a few times. On the second night, Kambei decides that the villagers won't be able to fight for long, so he tells them to get ready for a last, decisive battle. After Katsushir's affair is made public during the night, the embattled militia find some amusement in his amorous exploits, despite the initial uproar.
When morning breaks and the crooks make their assault, Kambei orders his powers to permit every one of the 13 leftover criminals in on the double. Most of the bandits are easily killed in the subsequent confrontation, but the leader hides in a hut. He kills Kyz by shooting him in the back from the safety of the hut, which is portrayed as a dishonorable act. An angry Kikuchiyo bravely (and blindly) charges ahead of Katsushir in an effort to exact revenge on his hero, only to be shot in the stomach himself. Kikuchiyo ensures that he kills the bandit chief, proving his worth as a samurai by doing so despite being fatally wounded. While Katsushir weeps over his fallen comrades, dazed and exhausted, Kambei and Shichirji sadly observe "we've survived once again." The villagers win the battle in the end.
Kambei, Katsushir, and Shichirji, the three remaining samurai, are left to watch the villagers joyfully plant the next rice crop. The samurai think about the connection between the hero and cultivating classes: however they have won the fight for the ranchers, they have lost their companions with little to show for it. " "We are defeated once more," Kambei muses. The ranchers have won. Not us." This melancholic perception reveals new insight into Kambei's assertion toward the start of the film that he had "always lost a fight." This is in contrast to the villagers' singing and joy, whose figuratively life-sustaining work has triumphed over war and left all warriors as the defeated party.
