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Shichinin no samurai = Seven samurai / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
七人の侍 = Seven samurai Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 2.
- The Criterion collection ; 2
- Standardized Title:
- Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Samurai--Drama.
- Samurai.
- Japan--History--Period of civil wars, 1480-1603--Drama.
- Japan.
- Samurai--16th century--Drama.
- Genre:
- Action and adventure films.
- Samurai films.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Foreign films -- Japan.
- Feature films -- Japan.
- Action and adventure films
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- History
- Samurai films
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, Japanese
- Physical Description:
- 3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 insert (1 leaf : illustrations ; folded to 19 cm).
- DVD DVD video 4 3/4 in.
- Edition:
- Special edition, English subtitled version.
- Other Title:
- Seven samurai
- 7 samurai
- Original Japanese title: 七人の侍
- Place of Publication:
- Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2006, 2nd printing 2023]
- Language Note:
- Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; full screen (1.33:1) presentation); Dolby Digital mono, Dolby Digital surround; restored high-definition digital transfer.
- digital
- optical
- mono surround
- Dolby digital
- DVD fullscreen (1.33:1) 24 fps
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- "Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits"--Container.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: The film, part one
- Disc 2: The film, part two
- Disc 3: The supplements.
- Participant:
- 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.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; art direction, Takashi Matsuyama.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Full screen (1.33:1).
- 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 Sidney Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune.
- Academy Award: Honorary Award - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the U.S. during 1955.
- ISBN:
- 6310335847
- 9786310335841
- 5558259167
- 9785558259162
- 0715515019927
- 9781558409972
- 1558409971
- OCLC:
- 71367893
- Publisher Number:
- 715515286619
- CC3482D Criterion Collection
- Online:
- Credits from Internet Movie Database
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