Shichinin no Samurai

七人の侍

Comic adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's film "Seven Samurai. The artwork is by Ken Tsukikage, a great gekiga manga artist who is also known as a "modern-day ukiyoe artist. Seven samurai are hired by peasants who are troubled by the lawlessness of wild samurai. Akira Kurosawa's masterpiece of Japanese cinema, depicting their heroic deeds, has been revived in gekiga form.

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