Shichinin No Samurai

Shichinin No Samurai

The film The Seven Samurai is a classic example of late 16th century samurai engaged in warfare. Throughout the film we are able to get a real sense of what values samurai hold, as well as some techniques used in battle. The film also provides some insight into how a samurai might define himself as a samurai. Though the seven samurai came from different backgrounds and are vastly different people, they share one common trait which is the label of samurai. Throughout much of the first half of the film we are able to see the separation between the regular townspeople and the samurai. The townspeople are stationary and live more or less by daily routine, whereas the samurai are mobile and are defined mainly by how
The first is that they can form a defensive stronghold. The nature of the village allows for people to live close together with somewhat of a defining line on the outsides of the village. They must reinforce the outsides of the village in order to keep their stronghold impenetrable and intact. They do this with a series of moats and sharpened walls of bamboo. They know that they have and infinitely greater chance to survive if they do not allow the enemy to attack from all sides. With the defenses built up around the village they form a base inside of the village to work
One advantage in particular is the guns that they bandits have. The samurai want to know how many they have and where the guns are stationed at. To do this they make a scarecrow-like doll and go searching around trees for the guns until the dummy gets shot at. Although the bandits still have the advantage of guns, now the samurai have more knowledge of where they are so that they can minimize their effect. It seems that preparing for war in some ways is just as important as being able to fight well during