Shichinin no Samurai plot
"The Mighty Warriors Who Became the Seven National Heroes of a Small Town."
Feudal 16th-century Japan is ravaged by wars and itinerant gangs. One of those gangs targets the harvest of a small farming village, but the gang members decide not to return until the harvest is complete. However, a villager overhears this conversation. The village elder orders some fellow villagers to look for unemployed samurai, who will defend the village in exchange for food. They find an elderly, weary samurai, who has sympathy for the defenseless villagers and grants their request. He recruits five other samurai and can even count on an initially unwanted companion: the inexperienced but self-conscious Kikuchiyo. The others are experienced fighters, but know that they have to face a great force majeure.