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Samurai 7, Vol. 7 - Guardians of the Rice | 
| Director: Toshifumi Takizawa
Actors: Sonny Strait, Inukai Junji, Inada Tesu, Jerry Jewell, Michael Sinterniklaas
Studio: Funimation Prod
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.98
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 28415
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 75 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: DFN05826D
UPC: 704400058264
EAN: 0704400058264
ASIN: B000ENUKYO
Release Date: July 25, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Facing impossible odds and unavoidable sacrifice the samurai know this battle will determine the fate of not only Kanna Village but that of an entire nation. The final battle has arrived. It ends here.Episodes:1. The Oaths2. The Last Battle3. The Era s EndDVD Features:- Textless Closing and Opening Songs Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 704400058264
Amazon.com
Samurai 7 comes to a spectacular conclusion in a prolonged battle that occupies most of the last three episodes. To protect Kanna village, Kambei and his mismatched band attack the Capitol, the newly proclaimed Emperor Ukyo's equivalent of the Death Star. The warriors perform gravity-defying leaps, as they slash through steel, deflect bullets, and split laser beams with their swords. The outcome is pretty much a foregone conclusion, although director Toshifumi Takizawa throws in a few unexpected twists. Samurai 7 is a baroque mecha adventure that offers plenty of over-the-top battle sequences for viewers who want a mixture of feudal and futuristic derring-do. But to pretend its meandering plot, stock heroes, and tinpot villains have anything to do with Akira Kurosawa's brilliant Seven Samurai is merely silly. (Rated TV PG, suitable for ages 12 and older: violence) --Charles Solomon
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| Customer Reviews:
A warning for collectors May 30, 2006
Jose Ibanez (Eatontown, NJ)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Volume 7 concludes the spectacular Samurai 7 tv series.
It goes without saying that if you haven't seen the show from the beginning, this isn't the place to start. Go back and watch this show from the beginning. I wrote a pretty in-depth review for the first disc if you're interested.
If you've been collecting the show, there's no reason not to get this disc. However, another version of this dvd exists that comes with a box to fit all 7 volumes. As a collector who likes his DVDs to look as good on the shelf as on the TV, I would strongly recommend the version with the box as opposed to the version without.
 THIS IS THE END September 23, 2006
Sesho (Pasadena, TX USA)
In the final volume of Samurai 7, an anime that had been wandering in soap opera melodrama and Phantom Menace politics, regains the sense of seriousness, risk, and action that made it great. Katsushiro, disgusted with Kambei for backing down from the new Emperor when he had the chance to kill him, has taken it upon himself to protect Kanna Village from the rapidly approaching Capital. As a measure of how his strength and skill has increased, he deflects a bolt of energy from the ship's main cannon...with his sword! Meanwhile, the cavalry is on the way as the other remaining samurai are making their way as fast as they can back to Kanna for a final battle with the always treacherous Ukyo and his now lobotomized Bandit army.
This final volume of Samurai 7 really pulled out all the stops and added an element of risk that had been missing since the big battle against the Bandits at Kanna Village. You just have this intuition that not all of the samurai are going to make it out alive. The human emotions on display here are not of the melodramatic sort that have plagued the last two volumes, but the reflections of honest human souls, whether it's the relationships between Komachi and Kikuchiyo or Kirara and Kambei. The action at times can seem like a big Hollywood production, but with a beauty and meaningfulness that it can never touch. All in all, a tragic and fitting end to a inconsistent but great show.
Fabulous Conclusion June 22, 2008
L. B. Bryant (Astoria, OR)
Not everything about this series was perfect and I never claimed that it was. In the end, I can't say that I was completely happy with how the stories were ended. In particular is one story resolution that the audience is completely robbed from seeing. In the grand scheme of things though, the primary story is wrapped up very well though it does leave the audience with a serious desire to find out what happens next. Universally praised, this is a series that every anime fan will want to see at some point in their lives and one that I would gladly recommend to anyone else looking for something good to watch.
One of the Top Ten Best Anime Series of all Times July 26, 2008
F. W. Brizzolara III (Houston, TX USA)
Based on the original Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa, this remarkable series has a great story that builds on each of the characters. Similar to the original story, the seven are hired by a poor village (with only rice for payment) to defend against barbaric forces. The people pay the barbarians their produce to keep them from destroying their village. The Samurai accept their offer but accept only the millet (rice byproduct that the villagers eat) and nobly defend their village. Everyone must see this fantastic epic.
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