Seven Samurai (1954) quotes

Cast
Toshirô Mifune.
Takashi Shimura.
Keiko Tsushima.

A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

Go to the north. The decisive battle will be fought there.
– Kambei Shimada
Why didn’t you build a fence there?
– Gorobei Katayama
A good fort needs a gap. The enemy must be lured in. So we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war.
– Kambei Shimada

This is the nature of war: By protecting others, you save yourselves. If you only think of yourself, you’ll only destroy yourself.
– Kambei Shimada

Kikuchiyo, what on earth are you doing?
– Shichiroji
I can’t kill a lot with one sword!
– Kikuchiyo

Train yourself, distinguish yourself in war… But time flies. Before your dream materializes, you get gray hair. By that time your parents and friends are dead and gone.
– Kambei Shimada

So. Again we are defeated.
– Kambei Shimada
The farmers have won. Not us.
– Kambei Shimada

Find hungry samurai. Even bears come down from the mountains when they are hungry.
– Gisaku

Danger always strikes when everything seems fine.
– Kambei Shimada

You fool! Damn you! You call yourself a horse! For shame! Hey! Wait! Please! I apologize! Forgive me!
– Kikuchiyo

You said he’d be a treasure in hard times. The hard times have only just begun.
– Kambei Shimada

This baby… It’s me… It’s what happened to me!
– Kikuchiyo

Old man, I’m worried. The village girls will go crazy over the samurai. If the samurai touch ’em, all hell will break loose.
– Farmer Manzo
Bandits are coming, you fool. Your head is on the block and all you think of are your whiskers?
– Gisaku

Don’t you see? A real sword will kill you.
– Kyuzo

You there, chewing your cud. Can you cut that out? This isn’t a cow shed!
– Kikuchiyo

You again! I see that bald head of yours in my dreams!
– Kikuchiyo

Got what you deserved, you mud snails.
– Kikuchiyo

I’m Heihachi Hayashida, a fencer of the Wood Cutting School.
– Heihachi Hayashida

You all make great scarecrows. Problem is, the enemy isn’t a bunch of sparrows and crows!
– Kikuchiyo

Use your balls, if you’ve got any!
– Kikuchiyo