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The seven samurai [videorecording] / Toho Films ; produced by Shojiro Motoki ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni.

Contributor Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Imprint:[New York, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, c1998.

Description1 videodisc (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.

Note:Features: Audio commentary by Japanese film expert Michael Jeck, original U.S. theatrical trailer.

Target AudienceMPAA rating: Not rated.

Note:A 16th century Japanese farming community has been victimized by bandits, year afer year. Desperate to find some means of ending the terror, the villagers hire seven unemployed samurai to help defend them. Film formed the basis of The Magnificent Seven and Battle beyond the Stars.

Note : PerformerTakashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi.

System Details NotesDVD, Dolby digital mono.

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Contributor
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018.
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996.
Mifune, Toshiro, 1920-
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
Inaba, Yoshio.
Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985.
Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955.
Toho Kabushiki Kaisha.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Title:
Akira Kurosawa's seven samurai [videorecording]
Series Added Entry
Criterion collection ; 2
Japanese classic collection
Subject:
Samurai -- Drama.
Index Term - Genre/Form
Samurai films.
Action and adventure films.
Feature films.
Black and white films.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Historical films.
Fiction films.