Seven samurai [videorecording] / Toho Company presents a Janus Films release ; production, Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills,...

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Bibliographic Details

Corporate Authors:	Janus Films, Criterion Collection (Firm)
Other Authors:	Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998 (Director, Screenwriter), Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997 (Actor), Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982 (Actor)
Other title:	Seven Samurai (Motion Picture : 1954) Title on disc surface and container: Akira Kurosawa's seven samurai.
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese
Published:	Irvington, New York : Criterion Collection [Distributor], 1998.
Edition:	RSDL dual-layer edition.
Series:	Criterion collection ; 2. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:	Japan > In motion pictures. Feature films. Video recordings for the hearing impaired. Samurai films. Action-adventure films.