Title:
Seven samurai
Author:
Motoki, Sōjirō, producer.
Edition:
Special edition, English subtitled version.
Publication Information:
Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, [2006]
©2006
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (207 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 bonus disc.
Summary:
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
General Note:
Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.
Edition from container and disc label.
Series numbering from container spine.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1954.
Special features: Disc 1: Two audio commentaries--one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie, and one by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teaser; 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.
Language:
Japanese
Contents:
Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements.
Genre:
Added Author:
Added Uniform Title:
Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)
ISBN:
9786310335841
UPC:
715515019927
Format :
DVD
