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The film's putative star
Although Seven Samurai has often been called an epic, it's really not. Almost all of the [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] action takes place indoors or in small settings. There are many characters and extras, but there are only forty bandits, and maybe twice as many villagers. This is personalized, small-scale warfare. The only epopee the film indulges in is the rhetoric spouted by Kikuchiyo and Akira Kurosawa's visuals, which let the viewer often get both subjective and objective viewpoints in one shot (often over the shoulders of the characters). But in true Kurosawa fashion and in keeping with his detached approach to the narrative, the fact is that we are never privy to any of the samurai's motives. Presumably, Kambei, the oldest and wisest, is moved by the challenge and the plight of his would-be employers. Katsushiro, the youngest and apparently the wealthiest, is in it for knowledge and to serve his master Kambei, whom he deifies. Kikuchiyo seems to be in it just to kill, and to work out issues of aggression and abandonment over the murder of his parents when he was still a child. Yet, their reasons remain fuzzy, while the other four samurai are never even given that much consideration as to their motives.
Toshiro Mifune is the film's putative star, and doubtless his Kikuchiyo is a memorable character in a Calibanian vein. Still, it's a role that is not so far off from the loony bandit he portrayed in Rashomon, while his scenery-chewing acting style is [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] at times a bit overdone. On the other hand, Mifune's performance is leavened by the fact that not only is Mifune the actor overacting, but so is his character Kikuchiyo within the film. It's notable that his sword is almost as tall as himself and twice the length of the other samurai's swords.
There is a remarkable scene where he vents his anger when Kambei and the others see the armor of dead samurai. At first, he agrees with the samurai that the villagers are liars and not worth defending; even that they should be killed. But then his [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] rage turns toward his stunned comrades. He leaves,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], huffs at Katsushiro, and later rejects the advances of a flock of children as well.
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