日本战国时代，一小山村面临着山贼的威胁，为了保护秋天的收成，村中长老决定让去请武士来保护村子安全，但只能拿出的报酬是一天三顿的白米饭。在城里，他们遭到了武士白眼甚至被打。直到勘兵卫（志村乔饰）的出现，他现今已沦为浪人，几经考虑最后答应了。他对农民说至少需要七名武士，于是久藏（宫口精二饰）、胜四郎（木村功饰）、五郎（稻叶义男饰）、七郎（加东大介饰）、平八（千秋实饰）和菊千代（三船敏郎饰）等六人也加入了队伍，七个人肩负保卫村子的任务。
整个防御准备的过程中，武士与农民间发生许多摩擦也闹出不少笑话。而在一次偷袭行动中，有武士为救农民被火枪打死，很快山贼的反扑随之而来，一场恶战即将开始。

Sheriff Pat Halahan comes into an inheritance and travels to San Francisco to collect. Faith O’Day, a cat burglar armed with pistol and flashlight breaks into his hotel room and demands that Halahan cough up his dough. Halahan sees her threat and raises her a one-dollar bet that he can return a brooch she stole earlier the same evening before its loss is discovered. Pulling off his boots to slip on his own “soft shoes,” Halahan sets off to do a little second-story work, not realizing the trouble he’s in for.

This silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?

Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries her father's guest plans to steal one of her father's rubies. The couple are kidnapped and held prisoner at a mysterious, creepy house. Strange things are afoot at Satan's house.