Q 01/05

Who directed Seven Samurai (1954)?

A) Kenji Mizoguchi

B) Akira Kurosawa

C) Yasujiro Ozu

D) Masaki Kobayashi

Answer · why

B) Akira Kurosawa

He co-wrote the screenplay with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni over six weeks at an inn in Atami.

Q 02/05

In what year is Seven Samurai set?

A) 1543

B) 1502

C) 1467

D) 1586

Answer · why

D) 1586

It is the Sengoku period; the bandit chief decides to wait until after the harvest for a richer haul.

Q 03/05

What do the farmers offer the samurai as their only payment for defending the village?

A) Horses

B) Food

C) Silver

D) Land

Answer · why

B) Food

The village elder Gisaku advises them to find hungry samurai willing to fight for meals alone.

Q 04/05

What is the samurai leader Kambei doing when the villagers first see him in town?

A) Begging for rice

B) Praying at a shrine

C) Rescuing a boy from a thief

D) Duelling a rival

Answer · why

C) Rescuing a boy from a thief

He has shaved his head to pose as a priest for the rescue; the young Katsushiro then begs to become his disciple.

Q 05/05

Which wild self-proclaimed samurai, played by Toshiro Mifune, is accepted only after failed attempts to drive him off?

A) Gorobei

B) Katsushiro

C) Kikuchiyo

D) Kambei

Answer · why

C) Kikuchiyo

The writers had developed six samurai but added a seventh because the others were too serious to be entertaining.