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Author:

Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)

Title:

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

Format:

[videorecording] /

Edition:

Special ed. , English subtitled version.

Publisher:

Criterion Collection,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Subject:

Samurai--Drama.
Japan--History--Period of civil wars, 1480-1603--Drama.
Samurai--16th century--Drama.
Japan--History--Period of civil wars, 1480-1603--Drama.
Feature films.
Foreign films--Japan.
Samurai films.
Adventure films.
Adventure--Feature.
Feature films.
Adventure films.

Other Authors:

Motoki, Sojiro.
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
Tsushima, Keiko.
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.
Tsuchiya, Yoshio.
Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988.
Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977.
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
Desser, David.
Mellen, Joan.
Prince, Stephen, 1955-
Rayns, Tony.
Richie, Donald, 1924-
Jeck, Michael.
Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-
Turan, Kenneth.
Cowie, Peter.
Kemp, Philip.
Chiao, Peggy.
Silver, Alain, 1947-
Galbraith, Stuart, 1965-
Penn, Arthur, 1922-
Lumet, Sidney, 1924-
Janus Films.
Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha.
Criterion Collection (Firm)

Notes:

Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese. Edition from container and disc label. Series numbering from container spine. 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. 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.

Contents:

Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements.

Summary:

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.

Series:

The Criterion collection ; 2

OCLC:

(OCoLC)71367893

UPC:

715515019927

Locations:

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

CYPF706 -- Musser Public Library (Muscatine)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)