Seven samurai / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

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
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:
Genre:
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

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