The Seven samurai

The Seven samurai

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A 16th century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. When the samurai arrive, a spectacular series of battles begins

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Criterion Collection (Firm), Home Vision (Firm), Janus Films, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Voyager Company
Other Authors: Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999, Cowie, Peter, Desser, David, Fujiwara, Kamatare, Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985, Galbraith, Stuart, 1965-, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-, Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971, Inaba, Yoshio, 1920-1998, Inaba, Yoshir, Jeck, Michael C, Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975, Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981, Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, Lumet, Sidney, 1924-, Mellen, Joan, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985, Miyaguchi, Siji, Motoki, Sōjirō, Nakai, Asaichi, Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988, Oguni, Hideo, 1904-, Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, Penn, Arthur, 1922-, Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020, Rayns, Tony, Richie, Donald, 1924-, Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-, Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-2014, Shimura, Takashi, 1905-, Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, Silver, Alain, 1947-, Tsuchiya, Yoshio, 1927-2017, Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-, Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012, Turan, Kenneth, Yanoguchi, Fumio, Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-
Format: Unknown
Language:Japanese
English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : Janus Films : Distributed by The Voyager Company, c1988
[New York] : Janus Films : Criterion Collection [distributor] , c2006
[New York] : [Chicago] : Janus Films ; Public Media Home Vision, c1998
Series:Home Vision cinema
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2
Criterion collection 67
Subjects:
1480-1603
16th century
Period of civil wars, 1480-1603
Feature films > Japan
Feature films
Foreign films > Japan
Motion pictures, Japanese
Samurai films
Samurai > History > 16th century > Drama
Samurai > 16th century > Drama
Samurai > Japan > Drama
Foreign films
History
Samurai
Japan > History > Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 > Drama
Japan
Action and adventure films
DVD-Video discs
Adventure films
Adventure > Feature
Drama
Video recordings
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508 |a Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka 
508 |a Director of photography, Asaichi Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka 
508 |a Director, Akira Kurosawa ; photography, Asaichi Nakai ; editor, Fumio Yanoguchi ; screenplay, Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; music, Fumio Hayasaka 
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520 |a Story of a group of seven samurai warriors who save a little village from annihilation at the hands of a group of bandits in 15th century Japan 
520 |a Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits 
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