Seven samurai = Shichinin no samurai
- Title
- Seven samurai = Shichinin no samurai / Toho Co. Ltd.
- Published by
- Santa Monica, CA : Janus Films : Voyager Press, 1990.
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound, black and white; 12 in.
- Summary
- Story of a group of seven samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th century Japan.
- Series statement
- Criterion collection
- Uniform title
- Criterion collection.
- Alternative title
- Shichinin no samurai.
- Subject
- Owning institution
- Columbia University Libraries
- Note
- Videodisc release of the 1954 motion picture.
- Japanese with English subtitles.
- Extended play (CLV). Digital sound.
- Includes audio essay by Michael Jack discussing the making of the film, its importance in Japanese film history and the collaboration between Mifune and Kurosawa.
- Credits (note)
- Director, Akira Kurosawa ; photography, Asaichi Nakai ; editor, Fumio Yanoguchi ; screen play, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
- Performer (note)
- Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune.