Seven samurai [DVD]

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Seven samurai

(2006, original release: 1954)

Fiction

DVD

Series:

Criterion collection #2

Call Numbers:

DVD/FOREIGN/JAPANESE/SEVEN

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Movies	DVD/FOREIGN/JAPANESE/SEVEN	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2006]
©2006

EDITION

Special edition, English subtitled version

DESCRIPTION

3 videodiscs (207 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)

ISBN/ISSN

0715515019927 CC1649D, 6310335847, 9786310335841, 715515019927, 00715515019927

LANGUAGE

Japanese

SERIES

Criterion collection #2

NOTES

Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese

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

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits

Edition from container and disc label

Series numbering from container spine

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

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; art direction, Takashi Matsuyama

Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya

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

Soundtrack: Japanese; with optional English subtitles