A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Toshirō Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Yoshio Inaba
Seiji Miyaguchi
Minoru Chiaki
Daisuke Katō
Isao Kimura
Keiko Tsushima
Yukiko Shimazaki
Kamatari Fujiwara
Yoshio Kosugi
Bokuzen Hidari
Yoshio Tsuchiya
Kokuten Kōdō
Eijirō Tōno
Jun Tatara
Atsushi Watanabe
Toranosuke Ogawa
Isao Yamagata
Kichijirō Ueda
Sôjin Kamiyama
Gen Shimizu
Keiji Sakakida
Shinpei Takagi
Shin Ōtomo
Toshio Takahara
Kan Sugi
Hiroshi Hayashi
Sachio Sakai
Sôkichi Maki
Ichirō Chiba
Noriko Sengoku
Noriko Honma
Masanobu Ôkubo
Etsuo Saijo
Minoru Itō
Haruya Sakamoto
Gorô Sakurai
Hideo Shibuya
Kiyoshi Kamoda
Senkichi Ōmura
Takashi Narita
Shōichi Hirose
Kôji Uno
Masaaki Tachibana
Kamayuki Tsubono
Taiji Naka
Chindanji Miyagawa
Shigemi Sunagawa
Akira Tani
Akio Kusama
Ryûtarô Amami
Jun Mikami
Haruo Nakajima
Sanpei Mine
Masahide Matsushita
Kaneo Ikeda
Takuzô Kumagaya
Ippei Kawagoe
Jirô Suzukawa
Junpei Natsuki
Kyôichi Kamiyama
Haruo Suzuki
Gorô Amano
Akira Kitchôji
Kōji Iwamoto
Hiroshi Akitsu
Akira Yamada
Kazuo Imai
Eisuke Nakanishi
Toku Ihara
Hideo Ôtsuka
Shû Ôe
Yasuhisa Tsutsumi
Yasumasa Ônishi
Tsuneo Katagiri
Megeru Shimoda
Masayoshi Kawabe
Shigeo Katô
Yoshikazu Kawamata
Takeshi Seki
Haruko Toyama
Tsuruko Mano
Matsue Ono
Tsurue Ichimanji
Masako Ōshiro
Kyōko Ozawa
Michiko Kadono
Toshiko Nakano
Shizuko Azuma
Michiko Kawabe
Yûko Togawa
Yayoko Kitano
Kyoko Mori
Misao Suyama
Toriko Takahara
Takeshi Katō
Tatsuya Nakadai
Ken Utsui
Ren Yamamoto