Seven samurai

Resource Information

The work Seven samurai represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Seven samurai

Statement of responsibility

Janus Films ; Toho Co., Ltd. ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

Title variation

• Shichinin no samurai
• 7 samurai

Contributor

• Jeck, Michael C
• Jiao, Xiongping
• Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975
• Kemp, Philip
• Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981
• Kosugi, Yoshio
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
• Lumet, Sidney, 1924-2011
• Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977
• Mellen, Joan
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
• Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985
• Motoki, Sojiro
• Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988
• Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996
• Penn, Arthur, 1922-2010
• Prince, Stephen, 1955-
• Rayns, Tony
• Richie, Donald, 1924-2013
• Shimazaki, Yukiko
• Silver, Alain, 1947-
• Tsuchiya, Yoshio
• Tsushima, Keiko
• Turan, Kenneth
• Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Janus Films
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
• Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999
• Cowie, Peter
• Desser, David
• Fujiwara, Kamatari
• Galbraith, Stuart, 1965-
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
• Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955
• Hidari, Bokuzen
• Inaba, Yoshio

Subject

• Samurai films
• Action and adventure films
• Samurai -- 16th century -- Drama
• Japan -- History -- Period of civil wars, 1480-1603 -- Drama
• Foreign films -- Japan
• Feature films

Genre

• Samurai films
• Foreign films
• Feature films
• Drama
• Action and adventure films

Language

• jpn
• eng
• jpn
• jpn

Summary

Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits

Member of

• Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs), 2
• Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)

Cataloging source

DPL

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; art director, Takashi Matsuyama ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; DVD producer, Kim Hendrickson

Dewey number

791.43/72

Language note

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles

LC call number

PN1995.9.S24

LC item number

S4846 2006

PerformerNote

Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima, Yukiko Shimazaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Daisuke Kato, Isao Kimura, Minoru Chiaki, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Kosugi, Bokuzen Hidari, Yoshio Inaba, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Runtime

207

Series statement

The Criterion collection

Series volume

2

Target audience

general

Technique

live action