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The Bushido Virtue In Akira Kurosawa's The Seven Samurai

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The Bushido Virtue of Akira Kurosawa’s Characters
In Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai (1954), Kurosawa illustrates the code of bushido through each of the samurai by assigning them a primary Bushido virtue. The Bushido codes are broken down into seven areas; justice, courage, mercy, respect, honesty, honor and loyalty. Each character tends to lean towards a specific code of Bushido as the movie progresses. Firstly, the samurai played a very important role during the development of Japan as they were acknowledged in the social scene as the military class. Furthermore, Kenneth Pletcher from the encyclopedia of Britannica wrote “In the mid-19th century, however, the precepts of Bushidō were made the basis of ethical training for the whole society,
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