Samurai 7

Based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 Japanese film The Seven Samurai, the Samurai 7 manga is set in a futuristic post-war world where armed bands of ex-military men roam as bandits and prey on peasants for food, supplies, and women. Fearing to lose their upcoming harvest to the bandits, the inhabitants of one village decide to hire samurai to defend themselves.