Synopsis/Plot A group of villagers suffers from the repeated attacks from bandits. Some of the villagers are extremely afraid and wish not to fight the Samurai, but live in a parasitic-like co-relationship between the bandits and the villagers, but Rikichi, hot-headed and with nothing to lose, wishes to hire Samurai to finally win back their lives and their food so they don't starve anymore. So, Rikichi and a group of other villagers set off to another village to search for Samurai. There, they meet Kembai, after he shaves a sign of Samurai Honor, a braid of hair, and saves a child from a kidnapper. They ask him to join their resistance against the Samurai, and with initial reluctance, he goes, recruiting his friend, a fellow Samurai, Shichiroji, and four others, a friendly and cheerful, Gorobei, a rich and young Okamoto, Heihachi, and Kyuzo. Eventually, a man claiming to be a Samurai drunkenly comes in, fails the trap, and shows his family scroll, although it is for a teenager. ...
