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Society and Class
Japan was a very restrictive culture in terms of class and caste. You didn't get to rise through the ranks to become an aristocrat. Farmers were farmers, samurai were samurai, and the family you were born into pretty much determined what you would do with your whole darn life.
But there's a twist to it. In the era of Seven Samurai, those walls were starting to crack a bit. Samurai had to do peasant-like things to survive and peasants could pass themselves off as samurai if no one squinted at them too hard. The characters in this movie not only have to deal with the limitations of their class, but with what happens when those safe, dependable boundaries suddenly become a lot less dependable.
You need to fight if you want to keep the privileges of your class, or rise above it.
Your class is your class no matter what, and there's nothing to do to change that.
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