Seven samurai: [videorecording] /: Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Name: Seven samurai [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Description: Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

Motoki, Sōjirō.; Kurosawa, Akira,; Hashimoto, Shinobu,; Oguni, Hideo,; Mifune, Toshirō,; Shimura, Takashi,; Tsushima, Keiko.; Shimazaki, Yukiko.; Fujiwara, Kamatari,; Katō, Daisuke,; Kimura, Isao,; Chiaki, Minoru,; Miyaguchi, Seiji,; Kosugi, Yoshio.; Hidari, Bokuzen.; Inaba, Yoshio.; Tsuchiya, Yoshio.; Nakai, Asakazu,; Matsuyama, So,; Hayasaka, Fumio,; Desser, David.; Mellen, Joan.; Prince, Stephen,; Rayns, Tony.; Richie, Donald,; Jeck, Michael C.; Ōshima, Nagisa,; Turan, Kenneth.; Cowie, Peter.; Kemp, Philip,; Jiao, Xiongping.; Silver, Alain,; Galbraith, Stuart,; Penn, Arthur,; Lumet, Sidney,; Janus Films.; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.; Criterion Collection (Firm)

Seven samurai [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Motoki, Sōjirō.; Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.; Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018.; Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.; Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.; Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.; Tsushima, Keiko.; Shimazaki, Yukiko.; Fujiwara, Kamatari, 614-669.; Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975.; Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981.; Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999.; Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985.; Kosugi, Yoshio.; Hidari, Bokuzen.; Inaba, Yoshio.; Tsuchiya, Yoshio.; Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.; Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977.; Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.; Desser, David.; Mellen, Joan.; Prince, Stephen, 1955-; Rayns, Tony.; Richie, Donald, 1924-2013.; Jeck, Michael C.; Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013.; Turan, Kenneth.; Cowie, Peter.; Kemp, Philip, 1943-; Jiao, Xiongping.; Silver, Alain, 1947-; Galbraith, Stuart, 1965-; Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010.; Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.; Janus Films.; Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.; Criterion Collection (Firm)

2006

PN1997 .S48732 2006

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Title Seven samurai [videorecording] / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Variant Title Original Japanese title: Shichinin no samurai

Edition Special ed. , English subtitled version.

ISBN 1558409975

Imprint [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.

Language Japanese

Language Note In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Description 3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Other Standard Identifiers 715515019927

Call Number PN1997 .S48732 2006

Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/72

Distributor No. CC1649D Criterion Collection

Summary Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

Note Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.
Edition from container and disc label.
Series numbering from container spine.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
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.
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.

Credits Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.

Performer Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.

Cast Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.

System Details Note DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer.

Added Corporate Author Janus Films.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Series Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2.

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