| Edition |
Special ed. |
| Description |
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.). |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 2 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2.
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| System Details |
DVD; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono with optional Dolby surround soundtrack. |
| Cast |
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura. |
| Note |
Originally released as motion picture in 1954. |
| 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 |
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 teasers ; gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills ; new and improved English subtitle translation. Disc 2: 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. |
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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. |
| Contents |
Disc 1. The film (part one) 112 min. -- Disc 2. The film (part two) 95 min. -- Disc 3. The supplements. |
| Language |
In Japanese with optional English subtitles. |
| Subject |
Samurai -- Drama.
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Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama.
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| Genre/Form |
Samurai films.
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Feature films -- Japan.
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| Added Author |
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
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黒澤明, 1910-1998.
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Motoki, Sojiro.
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本木荘二郎.
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Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
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三船敏郎, 1920-1997.
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Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
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志村喬, 1905-1982.
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Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
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東宝株式会社.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Note |
English title: Seven samurai |
| Other Standard Identifier |
715515019927 |
| Publisher No. |
CC1649D Criterion Collection |
| ISBN |
1558409975 |
| Branch Call Number |
Jpn DVD Shichinin |
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