TY  - GEN
AB  - Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
AU  - Motoki, Sōjirō.
AU  - Kurosawa, Akira,
AU  - Hashimoto, Shinobu,
AU  - Oguni, Hideo,
AU  - Mifune, Toshirō,
AU  - Shimura, Takashi,
AU  - Tsushima, Keiko.
AU  - Shimazaki, Yukiko.
AU  - Fujiwara, Kamatari,
AU  - Katō, Daisuke,
AU  - Kimura, Isao,
AU  - Chiaki, Minoru,
AU  - Miyaguchi, Seiji,
AU  - Kosugi, Yoshio.
AU  - Hidari, Bokuzen.
AU  - Inaba, Yoshio.
AU  - Tsuchiya, Yoshio.
AU  - Nakai, Asakazu,
AU  - Matsuyama, So,
AU  - Hayasaka, Fumio,
AU  - Desser, David.
AU  - Mellen, Joan.
AU  - Prince, Stephen,
AU  - Rayns, Tony.
AU  - Richie, Donald,
AU  - Jeck, Michael C.
AU  - Ōshima, Nagisa,
AU  - Turan, Kenneth.
AU  - Cowie, Peter.
AU  - Kemp, Philip,
AU  - Jiao, Xiongping.
AU  - Silver, Alain,
AU  - Galbraith, Stuart,
AU  - Penn, Arthur,
AU  - Lumet, Sidney,
CN  - PN1997
CN  - PN1997
CY  - [Irvington, N.Y.] :
DA  - 2006.
ET  - Special ed. , English subtitled version.
ID  - 316594
KW  - Samurai
KW  - Motion pictures
LA  - jpn
LA  - In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
N1  - Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.
N1  - Edition from container and disc label.
N1  - Series numbering from container spine.
N1  - Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
N1  - Special features: Disc 1: Two audio commentaries--one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie, and one by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teaser; gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills ; Disc 2: A 50-minute documentary on the making of 'Seven samurai', created as part of the "Toho masterworks" series "Akira Kurosawa : it is wonderful to create" ; Disc 3: "My life in cinema", a two-hour video conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima from 1993, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan; "'Seven samurai': origins and influences", a new documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that impacted Kurosawa's masterpiece.
N1  - Booklet features essays by Kenneth Turan, Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, and Stuart Galbraith IV; tributes from Arthur Penn and Signey Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune.
N2  - Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
PB  - Criterion Collection,
PP  - [Irvington, N.Y.] :
PY  - 2006.
T1  - Seven samurai
TI  - Seven samurai
VL  - 2
ER  -