Seven Samurai Quotes

Kambei Shimada ] always strikes when everything seems fine.

Kikuchiyo Hey! I'm gonna start charging admission, you know.

Kikuchiyo Something's upsetting the little bugger, but he won't say what. You can see it all over his face.

Heihachi Those lips of his are bolted up tight as a house.

Katsushiro He has the real samurai spirit. He is totally fearless. Yet at the same time, he is gentle, and modest- look how he acted after he went and got that gun. And how he went too- just as though he were going up into the hills to look for mushrooms.

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

Bandit Help! Help me!

Bandit Help!

Kambei Back off! He's a prisoner of war. He confessed. He's begging for his life. We can't just chop him to pieces.

Peasant Stay out of this!

Rikichi Let me at him!

Gisaku Let her avenge her son's death in her own way. Make way there. Somebody help her!

Kambei Shimada As a matter of ], I'm preparing for a tough ]. It will bring us neither ] nor ]. Want to join?

Shichirōji Yes!

Kambei Shimada Maybe we die this time.

Kambei Shimada You said he'd be a treasure during hard times. The hard times have only just begun.

Kambei Shimada This is the ] of ]. By protecting others, you ] yourself. If you only think of ], you’ll only destroy yourself.

Kambei Shimada Go to the north. The decisive ] will be fought there.

Gorobei Katayama Why didn't you build a fence there?

Kambei Shimada A ] fort ] a gap. The ] must be lured in. So we can attack them. If we only defend, we lose the war.

Kikuchiyo Don't be so scared! No bandits are coming. Look here, you idiots. We came all this way and look at the welcome you give us! Yet when I ring the alarm a few times... ... you all rush out screaming for us to help you! You bunch of suckers.

Gorobei Katayama I thought I told you to let us go, did I not? To think that instead you would choose your own ].

Heihachi Hayashida You know, it helps to open up your feelings.

Kikuchiyo Hey, everybody! Give your wives plenty of lovin tonight, you hear?

Grandfather Bandits are coming, you fool. Why worry about the beard, when the head is about to fall?

Kikuchiyo It's me. I'm sleeping here from now on. Those guys cramp my style. Stop cowering, you idiot! This is your place! You hand over your house and sleep in a barn and you still can't stand up for yourself! Go lie back down, you! Brings back memories.

Kikuchiyo What's that?

Yohei ... It's my horse.

Kikuchiyo Horse? I thought it was a big mouse.

Kikuchiyo : Does any of you have a cute sister?

Kikuchiyo What do you think of farmers? You think they're saints? Hah! They're foxy beasts! They say, "We've got no rice, we've no wheat. We've got nothing!" But they have! They have everything! Dig under the floors! Or search the barns! You'll find plenty! Beans, salt, rice, sake! Look in the valleys, they've got hidden warehouses! They pose as saints but are full of lies! If they smell a battle, they hunt the defeated! They're nothing but stingy, greedy, blubbering, foxy, and mean! God damn it all! But then . . . who made them such beasts? You did! You samurai did it! You burn their villages! Destroy their farms! Steal their food! Force them to labour! Take their women! And kill them if they resist! So what should farmers do? Damn it... Damn it... God damn it...

Kambei Shimada I have no idea.

Kikuchiyo You there, chewing the cud. Can you cut that out? This isn't a cow barn!

Kikuchiyo You again. I see that bald head of yours in my dreams. You had the nerve to ask me if I wazz a samurai. Didn't you, huh? I never forget a face. Look here, though I look like hell, I'm a real samurai, all right. Here. I got something for you. Damn jerks. Looky here. There, juzz you look at this. Izz been handed down in my family for generations and generations. And you asked me if I were a samurai! You jerks. Look at this, juzz look at this! Thazz me right there.

Kambei Shimada Once more, we have survived.

Katsushiro Okamoto Is he really a samurai?

Kambei Shimada He only thinks he is.

Villager How can we find a samurai we can pay with only rice?

Gisaku Find hungry samurai.

Heihachi Hayashida Couples always work harder together. You ought to get married yourself. Hey, come back! I was just kidding!

Kikuchiyo I'd hate to die on that dung heap.

Heihachi Nobody's asking you to.

Gorobei Katayama You're good.

Heihachi Hayashida Yeah, yeah. But I'm better at killing enemies.

Gorobei Katayama Killed many?

Heihachi Hayashida Well — it's impossible to kill em all, so I usually run away.

Heihachi Hayashida Thank you.

Kikuchiyo This baby... is me! This is exactly what happened to me!

Kambei Shimada Kikuchiyo. You're lucky it was us. If it was the bandits... you'd be looking for your head.