Often hailed as one of the greatest films of all time, Seven Samurai (七人の侍, Shichinin no Samurai) is writer and director Akira Kurosawa’s tale of a village aimed to defend themselves from marauding bandits. Based on an account from the Edo period of samurai defending a farming village from bandits, Seven Samurai takes place in a mountain village of farmers in the year 1586. When farmers overhear a gang planning to raid their village once their crops are ready, they take the matter to the village elder, Gisaku, who suggests hiring samurai who will take food as payment. Thus begins their quest to find seven samurai who can protect their village.…