Yoshio Tsuchiya credited as playing...
Farmer Rikichi
- [Kambei is considering the farmer's offer]
- Kambei Shimada: It's impossible.
- Katsushiro: Sir! Why not arm them with...?
- Kambei Shimada: I thought of that, too.
- Katsushiro: But sir.
- Kambei Shimada: [pointedly] This would not be a game. A band of forty bandits! Two or three "samurai" could accomplish nothing. Defense is harder than offense. Mountains in the back of the village?
- Rikichi: Yes!
- Kambei Shimada: Can horses get over them?
- Rikichi: Yes!
- Kambei Shimada: Fields in front. The village is wide open to horsemen... until the fields are flooded. One guard for each direction takes four. Two more as a reserve. You'll need at least... seven, including me.
- [Kikuchiyo drags the bound bandit into a circle of vengeful, murderous farmers, laughing gleefully, and occasionally delivering a vengeful kick to his prisoner]
- Bandit: Help!
- [the bandit continues to struggle as he is dragged into the circle]
- Bandit: Help! Help me!
- [the samurai are desperately trying to hold back the crowd. The bandit's cries of 'Help!' continue on in the background. Kambei rushes into the circle]
- Kambei Shimada: Back off! He's confessed. He's begging for his life. We can't just cut him to pieces.
- [Heihachi tries to restrain a peasant carrying a bamboo spear]
- Peasant: Leave out of this!
- [Kambei tries to hold back Rikichi]
- Rikichi: Let me at him!
- [Suddenly, everyone stops and looks off-screen. The noise dies down. The old woman enters the vicious circle, carrying a hoe. Kambei and the other samurai watch as she shuffles past the silent crowd. Gisaku approaches the crowd and begins to speak]
- Gisaku: Let her avenge her son's death in her own way. Make way there. Somebody help her!
- [Rikichi pushes past Kambei and rushes forward. The other villagers follow him. The samurai turn away dejectedly]