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1999

Title:	Seven samurai / Janus Films ; Toho Films ; produced by Shojiro Motoki ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; written by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni.
Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Publisher, Date:	[New York] : Criterion Collection, 1999.
Description:	1 videodisc (203 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:	A 16th century Japanese farming community has been victimized by bandits, year after year. Desperate to find some means of ending the terror, the villagers hire seven unemployed samurai to help defend them.
Target Audience Note:	Not rated.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 02
Subjects:	Samurai -- History -- 16th century -- Drama. Feature films -- Japan. Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama.
Genre:	Samurai films. Japanese language films. Action and adventure films.
Other Author:	Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997. Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982. Janus Films Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Title:	7 Samurai Shichinin no samurai
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. Includes audio commentary and original US theatrical trailer. Photography, Asaichi Nakai ; editor, Akira Kurosawa ; music, Fumio Hayasaka. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Seiji Miyaguchi. DVD, full screen, Dolby digital mono. In Japanese with optional English subtitles. Winner, Silver Lion, Venice Film Festival, 1954
ISBN:	0780020685
Publisher or Distributor Number:	SEV040
System Availability:	4
Current Holds:	0
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