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040			_aLibrary of Congress _cSt. Paul's Library (BOM)
050			_aPN1995.9.S24 _bS48 2006
245			_aSeven samurai: _cJanus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Adira Kurosawa _h[videorecording]
246			_aShichinin no samurai _iOriginal Japanese title:
260			_a[New York] : _bJanus Films : _bCriterion Collection [distributor] , _cc2006
300			_a3 videodiscs (207 min.) : _bsd., b&w ; _c4 3/4 in. + _e1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm)
490			_aThe Criterion collection ; _v2
500			_aTitle and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese
500			_aOriginally released as motion picture in 1954
500			_a Series numbering from container spine
500			_aEdition from container and disc label
500			_aOriginally released as a motion picture in 1954
500			_aSpecial 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
500			_aBooklet 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
505			_aDisc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements
508			_aCinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson
511			_aToshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya
520			_aTells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits
538			_aDVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high -definition digital transfer
546			_aIn Japanese, with optional English subtitles
650			_aSamurai
650			_aJapan
650			_aSamurai
650			_aAction and adventure films
650			_vDrama.
650			_vDrama. _xHistory _yPeriod of civil wars, 1480-1603
650			_vDrama. _y16th century
700			_4Kurosawa, Akira, _d1910-1998.
700			_4Motoki, Sojiro
700			_4Hashimoto, Shinobu, _d1918-
700			_4Oguni, Hideo, _d1904-1996.
700			_4Mifune, Toshirō. _d1920-1997.
710			_4Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
710			_4Criterion Collection (Firm)
942			_cCD _2lcc
999			_c45137 _d45137