Samurai 7 Vol_ 3 - From Farm to Fortress

Product Description Kikuchiyo has been foolishly captured by the Bandits, and the samurai must leave the caverns to rescue him. When daylight approaches, the towering machines plan to ambush them. Clearly a traitor is in ther midst. Kambei knows legions of Nobuseri will be searching for them soon and decides to the group must get to Kanna, though the team of seven is invomplete. To survive the trek, new bonds of trust must be forged. As their journey begins, the samurai must confront an even more dangersious deception: betrayal from the farmers who hired them. Amazon.com As the 2004 broadcast series Samurai 7 continues, "water priestess" Kirara and the other peasant-recruiters fill their quota of seven warriors and lead them back to Kanna village to fight the crop-stealing bandits. Kambei and his comrades tell the villagers that their hamlet is now Kanna Castle, and they must join in its defense; the farmers reluctantly build fortifications and practice archery. But before they left the city, the samurai easily defeated several of the robot-bandits in a skirmish, so their threatened attack doesn't feel like much to worry about. Samurai 7 is supposed to be adapted from Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, but it's really just a flimsy sci-fi epic in which the villains sneer, "Keep your eyes in the dirt, where they belong," and the good guys portentously declare, "Because I am a samurai!" (Unrated, suitable for ages 12 and older: violence, alcohol use) --Charles Solomon