Seven samurai
(DVD Video)

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Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2006].
Format
DVD Video
Edition
Special edition, English subtitled version.
Language
jpn
UPC
715515019927

Notes

General Note
Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.
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Edition from disc label and container.
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Series numbering from container spine.
General Note
DVD release of the 1954 motion picture.
General Note
Special features: Disc 1: The film, part I (112 min.); 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: The film, part II (95 min.); 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: The supplements: "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.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
Participants/Performers
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
System Details
DVD ; Region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Language
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kurosawa, A., Motoki, S., Hashimoto, S., Oguni, H., Mifune, T., Shimura, T., Tsushima, K., Shimazaki, Y., Fujiwara, K., Katō, D., Kimura, I., Chiaki, M., Miyaguchi, S., Hidari, B., Inaba, Y., Tsuchiya, Y., Nakai, A., Hayasaka, F., Desser, D., Mellen, J., Prince, S., Rayns, T., Richie, D., Ōshima, N., Turan, K., Cowie, P., Silver, A., Galbraith, S., Penn, A., & Lumet, S. (2006). Seven samurai (Special edition, English subtitled version.). Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Akira Kurosawa et al.. 2006. Seven Samurai. Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Akira Kurosawa et al.. Seven Samurai Criterion Collection, 2006.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kurosawa, Akira, et al. Seven Samurai Special edition, English subtitled version., Criterion Collection, 2006.

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