History Awesome / SevenSamurai

* When Kambei mentions how beneficial it would be to take one of the bandits' guns. Kyuuzou takes it upon himself to go at it alone, a sure suicide for almost anyone else who would have volunteered, and runs off into the night. He returns at dawn, hands the musket over with one word (''futari'': two men [killed]) and goes to sit alone, proving his badassery once again.
* An out of universe example: Actor Seiji Miyaguchi who played Kyuuzou had never handled a sword in his life. Through clever camera angles and brilliant editing, Kurosawa made him appear as the greatest swordsman in the film.
* Kyuuzou's sparring match with another nameless samurai. The battle appears to be a draw, and the other samurai laughs about this. Kyuuzou calmly states that it was not a draw, and that he won. The other samurai becomes very angry, and challenges him to a real duel. Kyuuzou several times begs him not to, but the other insists. Kyuuzou ''did'' win the previous duel, and he wins this one too; though this time, instead of standing in one place like he did during the spar, he uses a last-second dodge (like one would in a ''real'' duel) to effortlessly cut down his opponent.

* Kambei's clever and daring method of saving a peasant child from the desperate criminal holding the child hostage. Katsushirou, Kikuchiyo and the peasants all happen to be witnesses, and it impresses all of them. Katsushirou is an impressionable young man from a wealthy samurai family who decides on the spot to ask the veteran samurai to be his mentor; Kikuchiyo (who has his own reasons to admire the rescue of peasant children) is impressed and hopes to set up an OddCouple partnership; and the peasants, of course, have been hoping desperately to find a samurai who can save them all.

* Kambei's old war buddy Shichiroji happens to wander through the town where Kambei is recruiting. Kimbei explains that he's about to take on a virtually impossible battle to the death on behalf of people who can't afford to pay more than a pittance, and asks, "Are you in?" And Shichiroji doesn't hesitate: "Yes."
* While out on evening patrol with Gorobei by his side, Kambei catches Kikuchiyo asleep on watch. So he decides to teach him a lesson: he takes away Kikuchiyo's sword, which is a few feet away from him, hides and Gorobei, also hidden from sight, wakes him up by throwing a heavy stone somewhere. Kikuchiyo panics when he realizes his sword is gone, and only has a piece of firewood to arm himself with, but Kambei, with Gorobei at his side, approaches him to tell him that if it had been the bandits instead of them, they would have had Kikuchiyo's head already. After that, Kiku becomes a ''little'' more responsible a warrior.
* Shichiroji cheering with his men, inspiring Gorobei to do the same with his own faction who were too frightened to come out and fight. Gorobei's hoarse, piercing war cry is awesome on its own.

* Kyuuzou, despite being fatally shot with the final rifle, hurls his sword in the direction that he was shot from(not as a weapon, but to alert his comrades where the bandits are hidden).

* Kikuchiyo's DyingMomentOfAwesome. The bandit leader shoots him straight in the gut, but Kikuchiyo pulls himself up, staggers into the doorway, and runs him through before dying himself. What a way to go.

* [[spoiler: Kyuuzou, despite being fatally shot with the final rifle, hurls his sword in the direction that he was shot from(not as a weapon, but to alert his comrades where the bandits are hidden).]]
* [[spoiler: Kikuchiyo's DyingMomentOfAwesome. The bandit leader shoots him straight in the gut, but Kikuchiyo pulls himself up, staggers into the doorway, and runs him through before dying himself. What a way to go.]]

** Kambei does nothing but watch, yet earns an awesome moment for himself by muttering as soon as the swords come out, "[[AwesomeByAnalysis It's so obvious.]]"

* [[spoiler: Kikuchiyo's DyingMomentOfAwesome]].