Seven samurai [DVD] / Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Adira Kurosawa.
Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese. Originally released as motion picture in 1954. Issued as part of a boxed set of 50 DVDs, with accompanying book: Essential art house : 50 years of Janus Films. Each DVD and the accompanying book are cataloged separately. Release date: October 24, 2006. Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.
Summary:
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
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