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

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmSeries: The Criterion Collection. 2 Publication details: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006. 2006Description: 3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)Other title:
  • 7 Samurai
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4372 SEV 22
Contents:
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements.
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama; music, Fumio Hayasaka
 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.Summary: Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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CD | DVD - With book CD | DVD - With book Central Library Second Floor Baccah 791.4372 SEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 12344 Available 3 DVDs, 321.00 for DVDs+1 Booklet 000024229
Book - Borrowing Book - Borrowing Central Library Second Floor Baccah 791.4372 SEV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 12344 Available 1 Booklet, 321.00 for DVDs+1 Booklet 000024230
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.

Series numbering from container spine.

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.

Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements.

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama; music, Fumio Hayasaka

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.

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

Not rated

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

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles

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