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

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:	Criterion collection ; 2. Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Corporate Authors:	Janus Films Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Motoki, Sōjirō Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998 Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018 Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996 Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982 Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012 Shimazaki, Yukiko Fujiwara, Kamatari Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975 Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981 Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999 Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985 Kosugi, Yoshio Hidari, Bokuzen Inaba, Yoshio, 1920-1998 Tsuchiya, Yoshio Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988 Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977 Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955 Desser, David Mellen, Joan Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020 Rayns, Tony Richie, Donald, 1924-2013 Jeck, Michael Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013 Turan, Kenneth Cowie, Peter Kemp, Philip Jiao, Xiongping Silver, Alain, 1947- Galbraith, Stuart, 1965- Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010 Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011
Language:	Japanese English
Language of the Original:	Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:	In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.
Edition:	Special ed. , English subtitled version.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 2. Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Subjects:	Samurai > 16th century > Drama. Japan > History > Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 > Drama. Feature films. Foreign films > Japan. Samurai films. Action and adventure films.
Genre:	Drama. Feature films. Foreign films Samurai films. Action and adventure films.
Physical Description:	3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Variant Title:	Shichinin no samurai. 7 samurai.
Format:	Video DVD

Description
Summary:	Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Note:	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. 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. Videorecording.
Call Number:	VIDEO S CO3 D0070205 VideoDVD
Credits:	Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
System Details:	DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer.
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.