本片可说是日本名导演黑泽明第一部真正加入西片趣味的时代剧,内容描写日本战国时代,贫穷家村百姓为保卫家园,与雇来的七位武士共同联手击退强盗的故事。导演黑泽明虽然意图将这部片子拍成彻底的娱乐动作片,但事实上,整部作品仍充分流露著黑泽明式的人道精神。至于七武士的性格塑造,整体而言可说诠释得相当成功,尤其是饰演堪兵卫的志村乔,将这个角色的智慧与成熟魅力发挥得淋漓尽致。本片战争埸面采取了许多连续复数镜头,较一般西部片更具张力与震撼力,充分流露黑泽明运镜功力的深厚。因此这部兼具娱乐与艺术价值,又不失日本风味的时代剧,为日本《电影旬报》杂志标为日本影史上“十大佳片”的第一名。。After an era of 'nudie-cutie' films from 1959 to 1963, sexploitation film-maker Russ Meyer turned to this 'roughie' rape-revenge, rural sex film with the tagline: "Ever wonder why wives WANDER?"| it starred 42C big bosomed voluptuous star Lorna Maitland as an unsatisfied married woman ("too much for one man") who was raped by an escaped convict in the woods after a nude swim in a swamp - and subsequently had her sexuality awakened, although her unfaithfulness led to her murder (a baling hook to the chest)| some states prosecuted the film for obscenity。本剧记述了焦裕禄一生成长与奋斗的人生轨迹。
这位人民公仆的青少年时代,有着鲜为人知的传奇经历,他的故乡是诞生了孔、孟二圣的山东省,中华传统文化的濡染,孔、孟之乡深厚的文化积淀和故乡山水之钟毓灵秀,形成了这位大地之子。在焦裕禄身上,体现着最典型的中华传统文化精神。。