Alternative titles: English: Samurai 7Synonyms: Samurai Seven, Seven Samurai, Samurai7Japanese: サムライセブン
Type: TV
Episodes: 26
Status: Finished airing
Airdate: 12 Jun, 2004 to 25 Dec, 2004
Genres: Historical, Mecha, Samurai, Sci-Fi
Duration: 00:26:00 per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 and older
In the far distant future, on a planet that might have been called "earth", there was a war between samurai who mechanized their bodies. After the long war, people enjoyed a modest peace.
Facing starvation and abductions at the hands of fearsome mechanized bandits (Nobuseri), the farmers of Kanna Village make the dangerous choice to hire samurai for protection. The village's water priestess, Kirara, her younger sister, Komachi, and a heartbroken villager, Rikichi, set off to hire willing samurai with nothing to offer but rice from their meager harvests. Through dangerous encounters and a bit of luck, seven samurai of varying specialties and experience are gathered for an epic battle against the bandits and the merchants that influence them.
Samurai 7 is based loosely upon Kurosawa Akira's famous movie "Seven Samurai"/"Shichinin no Samurai"
(source for 1st paragraph: based on translation from official trailer)
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Kirara Main | Colleen Clinkenbeard English Fumiko Orikasa Japanese Marie Bierstedt German |
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Shichiroji Main | Tohru Kusano Japanese Felice Invernici Italian Duncan Brannan English |
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Kikuchiyo Main | Christopher Sabat English Kuwata Kong Japanese Hans Bayer German |
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Kyuzo Main | Shinichiro Miki Japanese Sonny Strait English Markus Pfeiffer German Gianluca Iacono Italian |
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Komachi Main | Chiwa Saito Japanese Luci Christian English Katja Liebing German Serena Clerici Italian |
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Heihachi Hayashida Main | Greg Ayres English Junji Inukai Japanese Gabriele Calindri Italian |
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Gorobei Katayama Main | Tetsu Inada Japanese Bob Carter English |
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Katsushiro Okamoto Main | Romi Paku Japanese Sean Teague English Julien Haggége German Massimo Di benedetto Italian |
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Kanbei Shimada Main | Masaki Terasoma Japanese R Bruce Elliott English Detlef Bierstedt German |
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Ukyo Supporting | Takehito Koyasu Japanese |
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Justin Cook Producer |
| Yota Tsuruoka Sound Director | |
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Kaoru Wada Music |
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Gen Fukunaga Executive Producer |
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Akira Kurosawa Original Creator |
