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

Seven samurai

Published: Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor], 2006

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

Video DVD

Seven samurai

Authors: Mellen, Joan
Published: BFI Pub., 2002

Physical Description: 79 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Book

Seven samurai

Published: Criterion Collection, 1998

Physical Description: 1 videodisc (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet.

Video DVD

Seven Samurai.

Published: Criterion Collection/Janus Films, 1954

Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 207 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound

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