Seven samurai
(DVD)

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Popular Media - 3rd FloorPN1995.9.S24 S48 2006bookletOn Shelf
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Subjects

LC Subjects
Action and adventure films.
DVDs.
Feature films.
Foreign films -- Japan.
Foreign films -- Japan.
Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama.
Motion pictures, Japanese.
Samurai -- 16th century -- Drama.
Samurai films.
OCLC Fast Subjects
Action and adventure films
Drama
Feature films
Fiction films
Foreign films
History
Japan -- https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkT7GyCmyjxytDfqk6Yfq
Motion pictures, Japanese
Samurai
Samurai films
Other Subjects
Adventure -- Feature.
Cinéma japonais.
DVD-Video discs.
DVD.
DVDs.
Films d'aventures.
Films de samouraï.
Films étrangers -- Japon.

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Format
DVD
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
Language
Japanese
UPC
715515019927

Notes

General Note
Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese.
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Edition from disc label and container.
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Series numbering from container spine.
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DVD release of the 1954 motion picture.
General Note
Special features: Disc 1: The film, part I (112 min.); 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: The film, part II (95 min.); 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: The supplements: "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.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson.
Participants/Performers
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya.
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
System Details
DVD ; Region 1 ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation ; Dolby Digital mono., Dolby Digital surround, NTSC, restored high-definition digital transfer.
Language
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
Local note
SACFinal081324

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Kurosawa, A., Motoki, S., Hashimoto, S., Oguni, H., Mifune, T., Shimura, T., Tsushima, K., Shimazaki, Y., Fujiwara, K., Katō, D., Kimura, I., Chiaki, M., Miyaguchi, S., Hidari, B., Inaba, Y., Tsuchiya, Y., Nakai, A., Hayasaka, F., Desser, D., Mellen, J., Prince, S., Rayns, T., Richie, D., Ōshima, N., Turan, K., Cowie, P., Silver, A., Galbraith, S., Penn, A., & Lumet, S. (2006). Seven samurai (Special ed., English subtitled version.). Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Akira Kurosawa et al.. 2006. Seven Samurai. [Irvington, N.Y.]: Criterion Collection.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Akira Kurosawa et al.. Seven Samurai [Irvington, N.Y.]: Criterion Collection, 2006.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Kurosawa, A., Motoki, S., Hashimoto, S., Oguni, H., Mifune, T., Shimura, T. and Tsushima, K. et al (2006). Seven samurai. Special ed., English subtitled version. [Irvington, N.Y.]: Criterion Collection.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Kurosawa, Akira, et al. Seven Samurai Special ed., English subtitled version., Criterion Collection, 2006.

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