Samurai 7 [videorecording] : the complete series / director, Toshifumi Takizawa ; producers, Daisuke Ito, Kazuhiko Inomata ; produced by Media International Corporation (MICO), GDH.
Collective title from container. Episode titles from disc menus. Credits from English dubbed version. Based on the film: Shichinin no samurai / written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto & Hideo Oguni. Originally produced as 26 episodes of the television program Samurai 7 in 2004. Special features (disc 1): 4 character profiles; promotional video (5 min.); image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 2): 4 character profiles; image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 3): 3 character profiles; image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 4): image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 5): image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 6): image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen"); trailer (2 min.) Special features (disc 7): image gallery; textless opening song ("Unlimited") & closing song ("Fuhen") Episode summaries inside individual disc containers. Japanese voices: Masaki Terasoma, Gongu Kuwata, Romi Paku ; English voices: Colleen Clinkenbeard, Luci Christian, R. Bruce Elliott.
Contents:
Disc 1. The master -- The pupil -- The entertainer -- The loner -- Disc 2. The drifter -- The fool -- The friend -- The guardians -- Disc 3. The bandits -- The journey -- The village -- The truth -- Disc 4. The attack -- The offering (with optional audio commentary by the director & actors) -- The gun and the calm -- The storm -- Disc 5. The remembrance -- The Emperor -- The mutiny -- The execution -- Disc 6. The rescue -- The divide -- The lies -- Disc 7. The oaths -- The last battle -- The era's end.
Summary:
In a futuristic dystopia, an impoverished Japanese village hires seven samurai to protect them from the yearly raid of mecha-bandits.
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