Seven samurai, Janus Films ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

Type

Label

Seven samurai, Janus Films ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni

Note

Title and credits from English subtitlesEdition from disc label and containerSeries numbering from container spineOriginally released as a Japanese motion picture in 1954"1.33:1 aspect ratio"--ContainerRecorded in Dolby digital mono and Dolby digital surroundSpecial features: Disc 1: 2 audio commentaries by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie and by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teasers; gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills. Disc 2: 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 masterpieceBooklet 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

Color

black and white

Configuration of playback channels

mixed

resource.creditsNote

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson

Dimensions

other

Edition

Special ed., English subtitled version.

Medium for sound

videodisc

Participant note

Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatare Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Physical Description

3 videodiscs (207 min.), sd., b&w, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (55 p.) : ill. ; 19 cm.).

Sound on medium or separate

sound on medium

Specific Material Designation

videodisc

System control number

(Sirsi) 1034669(OCoLC)71367893

System details

DVD

Upc

715515019927