TY - ADVS AU - Motoki,Sojiro AU - Kurosawa,Akira AU - Hashimoto,Shinobu AU - Oguni,Hideo AU - Mifune,Toshir? AU - Shimura,Takashi AU - Tsushima,Keiko AU - Shimazaki,Yukiko AU - Fujiwara,Kamatari AU - Kat?,Daisuke AU - Kimura,Isao AU - Chiaki,Minoru AU - Miyaguchi,Seiji AU - Kosugi,Yoshio AU - Hidari,Bokuzen AU - Inaba,Yoshio AU - Tsuchiya,Yoshio AU - Nakai,Asakazu AU - Matsuyama,So AU - Hayasaka,Fumio AU - Desser,David AU - Mellen,Joan AU - Prince,Stephen AU - Rayns,Tony AU - Richie,Donald AU - Jeck,Michael C. AU - ?shima,Nagisa AU - Turan,Kenneth AU - Cowie,Peter AU - Kemp,Philip AU - Jiao,Xiongping AU - Silver,Alain AU - Galbraith,Stuart AU - Penn,Arthur AU - Lumet,Sidney ED - Janus Films. ED - T?h? Kabushiki Kaisha. ED - Criterion Collection (Firm) TI - Seven samurai T2 - The Criterion collection AV - DVD PN 1995.9 .S24 S4846 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - [Irvington, N.Y.] PB - Criterion Collection KW - Samurai KW - Drama KW - Adventure KW - Feature KW - migfg KW - 16th century KW - Video recordings for hard of hearing people KW - Japan KW - History KW - Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 KW - Feature films KW - Foreign films KW - Samurai films KW - Adventure films N1 - 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; 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; Disc 1: The film, pt. 1 -- Disc 2: The film, pt. 2 -- Disc 3: The supplements; Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson; Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya N2 - Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits ER -