My favorite samurai from the movie... the cool, calm, man-of-few-words, bad-ass, Kyūzō! Played by Seiji Miyaguchi. Poster number 2.

Poster 1 is here...

My second favorite Kurosawa movie. Of all the Kuroswa films I've seen him in, Kambei Shimada (the leader of the seven) is probably Takashi Shimura's best role. He played the cool, grizzled, battle-hardened-but-wise samurai to a T.

 More of samurais to come...