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Duty
Samurai live and die by their duty and their code of honor, by the promises they make and their ability to stand by them.
When we first meet them in Seven Samurai, they seem to have fallen down on the job: declining to die when their lord did the way their duty dictates. They agree to help the farmers as a way of fulfilling their duty again. And for comparative newcomers like Katsushiro and Kikuchiyo, it's a chance to learn what real duty is, how to fulfill it, and the kind of price you might pay along the way. (Kikuchiyo dies and Katsushiro has to watch his lady love walk away from him forever.) Duty hurts, boys. You'd best understand that before you sign up for this little shindig.
Duty carries no meaning in a world as bleak as this one. The only thing that matters is survival.
Duty helps the samurai and the peasants focus on what they need to do, preventing them from fighting among themselves.
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