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Seven samurai
Title:
Seven samurai
Edition:
Special ed., English subtitled version.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2006]
Physical Description:
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.).
General Note:
Title and credits from English subtitles.

Edition from disc label and container.

Series numbering from container spine.

Originally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1954.

"1.33:1 aspect ratio"--Container.

Recorded in Dolby digital mono and Dolby digital surround.

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.

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.
Contents:
Disc 1. The film (pt. 1) (112 min.) -- disc 2. The film (pt. 2) (95 min.) -- disc 3. The supplements.
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Summary:
"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 Note:
IN JAPANESE WITH OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES.
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