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Seven Samurai [videorecording] =Shichinin no samurai / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Adira Kurosawa.
Publisher number: CC1649D | Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Summary language: English Original language: Japanese Series: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2.Publication details: [New York, NY] : Janus Films; Criterion Collection [distributor], c2006.Edition: Special edDescription: 3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)Other title:- Disc label and container titles in English: Seven samurai
- 7 samurai
- Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)
- PN1997 .S4727 2006 PN1995.9.S24
Contents:
Production credits: Disc 1. The film (part one) 112 min. -- Disc 2. The film (part two) 95 min. -- Disc 3. The supplements.
- Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | AUDIO & DVD Collection | DVD Seven (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Copy Type:33 - DVD | d.1-3 | + 1 booklet | Available | 601296 |
Originally released as 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 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.
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.
Disc 1. The film (part one) 112 min. -- Disc 2. The film (part two) 95 min. -- Disc 3. The supplements.
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
DVD; full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby digital mono with optional Dolby surround soundtrack.
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
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