Reply #34: honor?

[Radical Activist]

The first samurai they recruited turned them down until a bystander guilt-tripped him into it by pointing out that they were feeding the samurai rice while eating millet for themselves. The youngest Samurai later becomes motivated to help when he tastes how bad millet is. Yet, near the end of the movie we find the farmers were only pretending to be so poor. Am I supposed to be happy that the Samurai were tricked into helping a village of sly cowards?

The film also failed to show how several samurai were convinced to join, leaving their motives in question. The youngest wanted to gain experience (nothing heroic there) another seemed broke and desperate. Perhaps the Samurai who first went on his own to retrieve one of the guns was acting for noble reasons. I found his character to be interesting and mysterious, but he had very few lines, leaving me disappointed.