Seven samurai

Special edition

2 videodiscs (207 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
monochrome
digital optical surround Dolby Digital monophonic
video file DVD video region 1

Canadian Home Video Rating : Not rated
PG

Shichinin no samurai

Originally released as a motion picture in 1954
"A joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema"--Container
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 Sidney Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune
Photography, Asaichi Nakai ; editor, Hiroshi Nezu ; music, Fumio Hayasaka
Takashi Shimura, Tsushima Keiko, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi
DVD ; fullscreen presentation ; Dolby Digital monophonic
For private home use only
In Japanese with optional English subtitles

2385240

715515019927

Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985, actor
Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018, screenwriter
Janus Films, presenter
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, film director, screenwriter
Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996, screenwriter
Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-2014, actor
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, actor
Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012, actor