Seven Samurai
Criterion (1954)
Drama
In Collection
#11469
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037429121726
IMDB   8.8
3 hr 23 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Yoshio Inaba Gorobei Katayama
Toshiro Mifune
Seiji Miyaguchi Kyuzo
Takashi Shimura Kambei Shimada
Toshirô Mifune Kikuchiyo
Minoru Chiaki Heihachi Hayashida
Daisuke Katô Shichiroji
Isao Kimura Katsushiro Okamoto
Keiko Tsushima Shino
Yukiko Shimazaki Rikichi's Wife
Kamatari Fujiwara Manzo, father of Shino
Director
Akira Kurosawa
Producer Sojiro Motoki
Writer Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Cinematography Asakazu Nakai
Musician Fumio Hayasaka


A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a villages request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.
A village is constantly attacked by well armed bandits. One day after an attack they seek the wisdom of an elder who tells them they cannot afford weapons, but they can find men with weapons, Samurai, who will fight for them, if they find Samurai who are in down on their luck and wondering where their next meal will come from. They find a very experienced Samurai with a good heart who agrees to recruit their party for them. He selects five genuine Samurai and one who is suspect but the seven return to the village to protect it from the forty plus bandits.
Edition Details
Edition Criterion Collection Spine #2
Distributor Criterion
Chapters 30
Release Date 3/16/1999
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles English; Japanese
Audio Tracks JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Mono
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Animated Menus
Audio Commentary
Theatrical Trailer