TY  - ADVS
AU  - Motoki, Sojiro
AU  - Kurosawa, Akira
AU  - Hashimoto, Shinobu
AU  - Oguni, Hideo
AU  - Hayasaka, Fumio
AU  - Nakai, Asakazu
AU  - Matsuyama, Takashi
AU  - Mifune, Toshiro
AU  - Shimura, Takashi
AU  - Tsushima, Keiko
AU  - Shimazaki, Yukiko
AU  - Fujiwara, Kamatari
AU  -  Kato, Daisuke
AU  - Kimura, Isao
AU  - Chiaki, Minoru
AU  - Miyaguchi, Seiji
AU  - Kosugi, Yoshio
AU  - Hidari, Bokuzen
AU  -  Inaba, Yoshio
ED  - Janus Films 
ED  - Criterion Collection (Firm)   
ED  - Toho Kabushiki Kaisha
TI  - Seven Samurai
T2  - The Criterion Collection
U1  - 791.4372 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - [Irvington, N.Y.] : 
PB  - Criterion Collection, 2006.
KW  - Samurai
KW  - Drama
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Period of civil wars, 1480-1603
KW  - June2011
KW  - Feature films
KW  - Samurai films
N1  - 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; Not rated
N2  - Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits
ER  -