Kurosawa Akira

Comic adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's film "Seven Samurai. The artwork is by Ken Tsukikage, a great gekiga manga artist who is also known as a "modern-day ukiyoe artist. Seven samurai are hired by peasants who are troubled by the lawlessness of wild samurai. Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece of Japanese cinema, depicting their heroic deeds, has been revived in gekiga form. \[mangaupdates]

Based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 Japanese film The Seven Samurai, the Samurai 7 manga is set in a futuristic post-war world where armed bands of ex-military men roam as bandits and prey on peasants for food, supplies, and women. Fearing to lose their upcoming harvest to the bandits, the inhabitants of one village decide to hire samurai to defend themselves.