| Description |
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 2.
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| System Details |
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer. |
| Language |
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese. |
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Edition from container and disc label. |
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Series numbering from container spine. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. |
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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. |
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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. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| 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. |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements. |
| Subject |
Samurai -- 16th century -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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DVDs.
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| Local Subject |
FOREIGN FILMS (JAPANESE), VIDEODISCS.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Foreign films Japan.
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| Added Author |
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
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Mifune, Toshiro, 1920-1997.
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Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
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Tsushima, Keiko.
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Shimazaki, Yukiko.
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Fujiwara, Kamatari.
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Kato, Daisuke, 1911-1975.
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Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981.
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Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999.
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Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985.
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Kosugi, Yoshio.
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Hidari, Bokuzen.
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Inaba, Yoshio.
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Tsuchiya, Yoshio.
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Janus Films.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
Original Japanese title: Shichinin no samurai |
| Added Title |
7 samurai |
| Standard No. |
715515019927 |
| Music No. |
CC1649D Criterion Collection |
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