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

Notes

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Title and credits from English subtitles.
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Edition from disc label and container.
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Series numbering from container spine.
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Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1954.
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"1.33:1 aspect ratio"--Container.
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Recorded in Dolby digital mono and Dolby digital surround.
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Special features: Disc 1: 2 audio commentaries by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie and by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teasers; gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills. Disc 2: 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.
General Note
Booklet features essays by Kenneth Turan, Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, and Stuart Galbraith IV; tributes from Arthur Penn and Signey Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune.
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"--Container.
System Details
DVD.
Language
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

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

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

Takashi Shimura et al.. 2006. Seven Samurai. Criterion Collection.

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

Takashi Shimura et al.. Seven Samurai Criterion Collection, 2006.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Shimura, Takashi, et al. Seven Samurai Special ed., English subtitled version., Criterion Collection, 2006.

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