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Seven samurai
Title
Seven samurai [videorecording]
ISBN
1558409975
Edition
Special ed. , English subtitled version.
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006.
Physical Description
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Notes
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.
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Summary
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Variant and related titles
Original Japanese title: Shichinin no samurai
7 samurai
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
Japanese
Added to Catalog
January 13, 2010
Series
The Criterion collection ; 2
Credits
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
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.
System details note
DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Contents
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1
Disc 2: The film, pt. 2
Disc 3: The supplements.
Seven Samurai [Shichinin no samurai] / directed by Akira Kurosawa (1954, 207 min.)
Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create (Toho Masterworks Series) (49 min.)
My Life in Cinema (conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima) (1993, 116 min.)
Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences (2006, 55 min.)
Videorecording number
CC1649D Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films.
Samurai films.
Action and adventure films.
Also listed under
Janus Films.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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