Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
2. Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997

Description

1. 2 videocassettes (208 min.) : sd., b&w.; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. In 16th-century Japan, the peasants of a small village recruit seven samurai to protect them from annual bandit attacks. When the warriors arrive, a series of spectacular battles commence. The director's mobile camera captures the action through foliage, rainstorms, dust and wind. In the United States, Kurosawa's epic, which borrows elements from American cinema, was re-made into a western entitled The Magnificent seven.

Subject

1. Motion pictures -- Japan
2. Foreign films
3. Foreign films -- Japan
4. Samurai films
5. Japan -- Fiction

Genre/Form

1. Feature films.

Note

1. In Japanese with English subtitles.

Credits (note)

1. Director, Akira Kurosawa; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa; photography, Asaichi Nakai; music, Fumio Hayasaka.

Performer (note)

1. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune.

Title

1. The Seven samurai [videorecording] / Toho.

Imprint

1. Los Angeles : Voyager Company, 1954.

Credits

1. Director, Akira Kurosawa; screenplay, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa; photography, Asaichi Nakai; music, Fumio Hayasaka.

Cast

1. Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Reserve Film and Video Collection Special Collections material

Added author

1. Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998. Director
2. Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.

Branch call number

1. VTH 824 S