#shichiroji

[beesgav]

Ludum Dare sucked away all my energy for good drawings

#samurai 7 #sam7 #heihachi #hayashida heihachi #shichiroji #digital #art #sketchbook

[sweetbabymantykes]

So your crustaceans are named after chefs. What are some other noteworthy names for the aquarium residents?

Well, we also have:

Our Pyukumuku which are all named after different kinds of beans- Pinto, Java, Lima, Kidney, Navy, Black, and Lentil

Mama Feraligatr's name is Pancake. You'll never guess why (its because she's flat)

Her hatchlings are named Maple, Butter, Sugar, Choco, and Nanab. They're the Breakfast Bunch :)

Papa Feraligatr's name is Offler. He's an old man

One of the hatchling specialists is a big film nerd and our Samurott had seven eggs, so the Oshawott pups are named Kanbei, Gorobei, Shichiroji, Kyuzo, Hayashida, Katsushiro, and Kikuchikyo. Apparently the guys from the movie they're named after is a classic?? idk i havent seen it

There was a LOT of debate when we almost named the Cloyster 'Yonic'. We were so close

One of our Quagsires is named Bub. idk why that gets me so good sometimes I'll just be minding my business and I'll remember Bub and his little :] face and I'll just laugh REALLY hard. It's SUCH a good name for a Quagsire

#irl pokemon #pokemon #pokemon irl #water pokemon #water type #pyukumuku #feraligatr #totodile #oshawott #quagsire #cloyster #asks #((ooc: I've seen Seven Samurai. it slaps. you should watch it too))

[dionaeafl]

Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa (1954) JPT3391 Neil McInnis

Set in the late Azuchi-Momoyama period, 7 Samurai details a story of survival, community, camaraderie, and loss. After a series of devastating raids from a marauding band of thieves, a small village turns to a traveling samurai, Kambei, for aid. Understandably, the Samurai is reluctant and skeptical at first, since he has everything to lose and nothing to gain. Fortunately for the villagers, he comes around to their side after rescuing one of their children from a stray bandit. Now determined to protect who he sees as innocent rural folk, he sets out to the city to recruit more Samurai for the effort. However, the village has been left practically destitute, and can only offer small servings of rice to any Samurai who offers them aid. The village elder suggests they find "a hungry Samurai".

In the town, after a series of surprise-attack tests on Samurai, they recruit Kambei's old war-buddy Shichirōji, along with Gorobei (a proficient archer), Heihachi, and Kyūzō, a stoic master swordsman whom Katsushirō develops a man-crush on. Kikuchiyo, a wild-eyed, monkey-like Samurai wannabe, is eventually accepted into the group after they give up trying to get him to go away. Once all 7 are recruited, they return to the village and begin the long process of building trust between themselves and the villagers. This trust also involves training them to use spears and basic tactics. They construct various defense structures, like wooden palisades, moats, and moving villagers to the center of the village.

Kambei decides to strike at the bandits preemptively, with a strike party consisting of Heihachi, Kikuchiyo, and Rikichi. They burn the bandit hut and force them out, freeing the captured women and cutting down the men. Rikichi's wife was made a concubine, so he and Heihachi rushed inside to rescue her. Tragically, Heihachi is shot at a distance by a musket. He's killed almost immediately and Kikuchiyo carries his body back to the village. Racked with grief, Kikuchiyo plants the flag they made atop a house overlooking Heihachi's grave, and vows to fight to the end.

The day of the raid approaches, the 6 remaining Samurai continue to fortify the village and train the villagers with bamboo spears. Kyuzo successfully dispatches 2 bandits and takes 1 musket in a solo night raid. Kambei orders the villagers to let the bandits in singularly or in small groups to slowly dispatch all of them. In the next raid, Gorobei is killed by a mounted archer. This goes on for several days, and Kikuchiyo steals one more musket. In the next raid, the presumed leader of the bandits takes several villagers hostage with a musket, and starts shooting at the Samurai as they try to break in. He hits Kyuzo, killing him nearly instantly. Enraged, Kikuchiyo charges the bandit, and sustains a serious wound, but still manages to drive his katana through the bandit's chest before he succumbs to his injury.

All in all, 4 of the 7 Samurai were killed, 3 of the 4 by gunshot. Kambei reflects on the incident, saying "in the end this was our loss. Those peasants bear the true victory" as he, Katsuhiro, and Shichiroji gaze solemnly at the graves of their fallen comrades.

The shot I chose to analyze for this film was the one where Kikichiyo stabs 5 more katana into a mound of mud, so that he can pick them up easily. This scene reflects the anger and guilt he feels from his fallen friends, and his resolve to keep on fighting on behalf of them and the villagers.

#japanese film

[keeganhogan]

The Seven Samurai

Kurosawa Akira’s The Seven Samurai is a grandiose epic that details the camaraderie of the samurai and their extensive, draining battle against the bandits to save the village. I found this movie much more representative of Kurosawa’s western influences, as he incorporates a lot of aspects from American western movies. Wide landscape shots, the bonds between the soldiers, and brining the law to a lawless hellscape are all tropes found in classic western movies that exist here in The Seven Samurai. We also see once more Kurosawa’s trademark of shooting in intense weather, with heavy rainstorm creating a muddy battlefield at the end. We have seen scenes of rain like this in No Regrets For Our Youth, when Yukie is slaving out in the rice paddies, and also in Rashomon as the three men sit beneath the gate to escape it. In The Seven Samurai, the intense storm enhances the feeling of grit, gore, and trudge that characterizes the final battle. The spectacle of the battle scenes in this movie to such a grand scale is something that I doubt had been done often or at all to this level back then, and is a large reason why this movie is heralded. 

I found the use of more modern forms of warfare, like the muskets, interesting in this movie. All four of the samurai who die in this movie die to musket shots, perhaps to show that the way of the samurai is becoming outdated, and fighting with “honor” is ineffective in the modern age. The ending of the movie also ties into this point, as Kambei says that the victory was for the villagers and not for them. For a warrior like a samurai, survival and victory are almost another kind of death, as you no longer have reason to fight. Maybe this is why the graves of the deceased samurai are placed so much higher than the ones who survived in the photo above. They died a true warrior’s death, even if it was to the advances in warfare technology, while the surviving samurai have to deal not only with the fact that their purpose is now thrown into doubt, but also with the fact that the way of the samurai is clearly coming to its end in history. The beginning section of the film shows the plethora of samurai in the town that the villagers are in to recruit samurai, and we watch as Kambei builds their team of seven to defend the village. We see the values of the samurai expressed in various ways in each character as they come together to go into battle as the honorable warriors they are. By the end of the movie though, we are left with only three. The older Kambei who is at the end of his career as a samurai, unable to go out in battle like a samurai might aspire to do, the young Katsushiro, who seems to be more a boy who fell in love and would rather spend his life with Shino then spend his life as a samurai, and Shichiroji, who we only really see fighting with the bamboo spear with the villagers than with his katana like the others. The more traditional samurai that we see all go out in battle, even the unique and unpredictable Kikuchiyo.

[choccos-aaart]

Un-published old SAM7 doodles

SAM7 but it's the Mario Bros & the koopalings xD

A comic where the samurai are being chased down on a motor boat. The motor breaks, but Kambei comes up with an idea (he uses Shichiroji's hair as a motor xD)

#SAMURAI 7 #SAM7 #WIP #Scraps

[rangertycho]

The original cast of the movie «Seven Samurai» (1954) in the armor and clothing of their characters from the anime «Samurai 7» (2004)

#seven samurai #samurai 7 #kikuchiyo #kambei shimada #gorobei katayama #shichiroji #katsushiro okamoto #heihachi hayashida #kyuzo #anime #菊千代 #島田勘兵衛 #片山五郎兵衛 #七郎次 #岡本勝四郎 #林田平八 #久蔵 #サムライ7 #七人の侍

[hotwaterandmilk]

Series: Samurai 7 Artist: Hashimoto Hideki Publication: Animedia Magazine (07/2004) Source: Scanned from personal collection

#samurai 7 #okamoto katsushirou #okamoto katsushiro #kikuchiyo #shimada kanbei #shichirouji #shichiroji #hayashida heihachi #kyuuzou #kyuzo #katayama goroubei #katayama gorobei #kirara #komachi #hashimoto hideki #hideki hashimoto #scan: hotwaterandmilk #animedia #00s anime #mecha anime

[evilelitest2]

This is one of the greatest movies ever made, so lets talk about what is wrong with it.  It also invented one of the greatest D&D plots.  If you want more of these podcasts, you can check it out here 

https://www.patreon.com/EvilElitest

#Fatal Flaw #Seven Samurai #akira kurosawa #Toshiro Mifune #Kikuchiyo #Kembei Shimada #Shichiroji #Katsushiro Okamoto #heihachi hayashi #kyuzo #Gorobei Katayama #Takashi Shimura #Daisuke Kato #isao kimura #Minoru Chiaki #Seiji Miyaguchi #Yoshio Inaba #yoshio tsuchiya #rikichi #Bokuzen hidari #Yohei #criterion collection

[dantexxorihara]

#samurai 7 #samurai sebun #shichiroji #シチロージ #anime #サムライセブン #anime gif #dxx90 #gif

[sournote2014]

Heihachi’s smile is infectious.

#seven samurai #Shichinin no Samurai #akira kurosawa #kurosawa akira #kambei shimada #shichiroji #Heihachi Hayashida #gorobei #gorobei katayama #katsushiro okamoto #kyuzo

[the-ayayron-blog]

Latest masterpiece by yours truly, "The Seven Samurai" I took an old black and white photo from the movie, increased the starkness of the black and white to give me that nice solid black. Then I added in colors for each one of them. Finding out what color works was pretty difficult, I had to make sure I chose the right colors that fit their personality and character. if you haven't seen the movie, I highly recommend it.

#akira kurosawa #seven samurai #Kikuchiyo #Kambei #Katsushiro #Kyuzo #Shichiroji #Gorobei #Heiachi #Village #Samurai #Farmers #Fan art #Digital coloring

[beesgav]

Band AU

#samurai 7 #sam7 #okamoto katsushiro #katsushiro #kyuzo #hayashida heihachi #heihachi #shichiroji #kikuchiyo #digital #art #sketchbook #gorobei and kanbei are producer and manager respectively i just ran out of time and space to draw them

[captain-popsicle]

Sometime family is five samurai dads with two samurai boys, one of them made of metal, and two mikumari daughters.

#samurai 7 #shimada kambei #shichiroji #gorobei #kyuzo #heihachi mishima #katsushiro okamota #kikuchiyo #kirara mikumari #komachi mikumari

[chernobog13]

The Alfrex action figure of Daisuke Kato as Shichiroji of the Seven Samurai.

#Daisuke Kato #Shichiroji #Seven Samurai #Alfrex

[whimsisadie]

sometimes it is useful to be a societal parasite

#shichiroji regalia #regalia: of men and monarchs #regalia of men and monarchs #regalia

[choccos-aaart]

au where everyone lives and everyone has access to electricity

basically this is what happens when kambei leaves them on the computer (which they had found in the dump) all alone for a solid minute without his guided supervision

(you know which draw the squad i’m talking about xD)

#samurai 7 #draw the squad #shimada kambei #kikuchiyo #katayama gorobei #hayashida heihachi #kyuzo #shichiroji #kirara mikumari #okamoto katsushiro