Samurai 7: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Kanna, a small village, is being persecuted by mechanized samurai called Nobuseri. The Nobuseri return every harvest to seize the village's crops. Faced with starvation, the villagers send out a mission to find and recruit some samurai to defend them. With no pay to offer except rice, and knowing full well that only helpless and eager samurai would even consider accepting such a deal, the villagers can only hope that their saviors will appear before the rice is ready for harvest. Samurai 7 is based on Akira Kurosawa's classic movie, "The Seven Samurai" or Shichinin no samurai. The Japanese promo for the series aired on April 15, 2004 and the Japanese preview aired on June 13, 2004.

Series details

• Title: Samurai 7
• Format: Animation
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure, Anime
• Premiere date: 2004-06-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 2004-12-25
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Animax
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.9/10
• TVMaze ID: 4249

Cast and credited roles

• Fumiko Orikasa — Kirara Mikumari
• J. Michael Tatum — Farmer Rikichi
• Masaki Terasoma — Kambei Shimada
• Inukai Junji — Heihach
• Kong Kuwata — Kikuchiyo
• Luci Christian — Komachi Mikumari
• Chiwa Saito — Komachi Mikumari
• Billy Flynn — Prime Minister
• Tetsu Inada — Gorobei
• Romi Park — Katsushiro Okamoto

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2004-06-12; final listed air date 2004-12-25; episode order: 26.

Source and licence

Adapted from Samurai 7 on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.