Seven Samurai is a story between farmers and samurais. It was in the end of
Sengoku era, some samurai lost their daimyo and they started to rob famers. The
story began with a village of farmers; they used rice to employ samurai to help
them beat the gangsters. The seven samurai fought for them and they won the
war.
Different from The Last Samurai, the samurais in this movie have to fight with other samurais. Besides the samurai spirits in this movie, there are still lots of issues that we can consider deeply. The justice in the movie is not as simple as people thought. Some audiences might confuse why Kanbei said the victors were belong to the farmers, the reasons were actually hide behind the treatments that farmers offered. The farmers provided their better rice to those samurais and ate worse rice in front of them in order to affect them, but they hid their wine and meat and other good food. When the war came, the unknown of their future made the farmers took out their food; in the situation, Kanbei was not angry about the farmers’ behaviors but accept it. After the war, some of the farmers dead, four samurais dead either; the farmers who lived were happy and they went back to their normal lives as fast as they could. How about the other samurais? They were left in the side and received no more attentions from the farmers because they do not need them anymore. It seemed like it was a good ending, but to those samurais who were dead in the war, what was the price for them?
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