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

Contributor(s): Series: The Criterion collection ; 2 Publication details: [New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006 Description: 3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm)Other title:
  • Original Japanese title: Shichinin no samurai
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.S24  S48 2006
Contents:
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements
Production credits:
  • Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson
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
Item type: CD/DVD
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Current library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia Fiction PN1995.9.S24 S48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Booklet 4 Not for loan 044348
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia Fiction PN1995.9.S24 S48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DISC 1: (PART ONE) 1 Not for loan 044334
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia Fiction PN1995.9.S24 S48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DISC 2 (PART TWO) 2 Not for loan 044335
Bishop Okullu Memorial Library (Limuru Campus) Multimedia Fiction PN1995.9.S24 S48 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) DISC 3: (THE SUPPLEMENTS) 3 Not for loan 044336
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Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese

Originally released as motion picture in 1954

Series numbering from container spine

Edition from container and disc label

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 Sidney Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune

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

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson

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, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high -definition digital transfer

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles

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