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Seven samurai Shichinin no samurai  Cover Image DVD DVD

Seven samurai Shichinin no samurai

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 1558409975
  • Physical Description: videorecording (DVD)]
    videodisc
    3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
  • Edition: Special ed. [Full screen]
  • Publisher: [S.l.] : Criterion Collection, c2006.

Content descriptions

General Note:
DVD release of the 1954 motion picture.
"English subtitled version"--Disc label.
Special features: Disc 1: film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie audio commentary; audio commentary by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teasers; 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 Signey Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune.
Formatted Contents Note: Disc 1. The film (pt. I) 112 min. -- Disc 2. The film (pt. II) 95 min. -- Disc 3. The supplements.
Creation/Production Credits Note: Cinematographer, Asakazu Nakai ; editor, Fumio Yanoguchi ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
Participant or Performer Note: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura.
System Details Note:
DVD; region 1 encoded, widescreen (1.33:1) aspect ratio, Dolby digital mono sound, Dolby digital surround sound.
Language Note:
Japanese dialogue, with optional English subtitles.
Subject: Feature films
Samurai -- History -- 16th century -- Drama
Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama
Feature films -- Japan
Foreign films -- Japan
Japan -- In motion pictures
ASIA
VISUAL ARTS

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  • 1 of 2 copies available at Camosun College Library.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Lansdowne Library PN 1997 S4803 2006 (Text) 26040002959357 Media Volume hold Checked out 2024-05-22 11:59pm
Lansdowne Library PN 1997 S4803 2006 BOOKLET (Text) 26040002967178 Library Services Desk Volume hold Available -

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