| Edition |
Special edition. |
| Description |
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 2 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2.
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| Note |
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. |
| Contents |
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements. |
| Credits |
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer. |
| Language |
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
| Note |
GMD: videorecording. |
| Local Note |
WNPLFFDVD |
| Subject |
Samurai -- 16th century -- Drama.
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Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Foreign films -- Japan.
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Samurai films.
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Action and adventure films.
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Adventure -- Feature.
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Feature films.
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Adventure films.
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| Added Author |
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
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Motoki, Sōjirō.
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Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
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Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
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Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
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Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
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Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012.
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Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-
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Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985.
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Katō, 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, 1894-1971.
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Inaba, Yoshio, 1920-1998.
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Tsuchiya, Yoshio, 1927-2017
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Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.
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Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977.
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Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
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Desser, David.
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Mellen, Joan.
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Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
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Rayns, Tony.
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Richie, Donald, 1924-2013.
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Jeck, Michael C.
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Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013.
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Turan, Kenneth.
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Cowie, Peter.
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Kemp, Philip, 1943-
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Jiao, Xiongping.
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Silver, Alain, 1947-
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Galbraith, Stuart, 1965-
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Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010.
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Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011.
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Janus Films.
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Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
Original Japanese title: Shichinin no samurai |
| Added Title |
7 samurai |
| ISBN |
1558409975 |
| Standard No. |
715515019927 |
| Music No. |
CC1649D Criterion Collection |
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