Portland Public Library

The hidden fortress, Janus Films ; Toho Scope ; executive producers, Sanezumi Fujimoto and Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay by Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958Widescreen (2.39:1)Special features: Commentary (features film historian Stephen Prince); Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create (documentary from 2003 on the making of the film and its widescreen cinematography); George Lucas on Akira Kurosawa (interview from 2001 with the filmmaker, pays tribute to the visual mastery of Kurosawa and details the elements of the film that directly inspired Star Wars); Trailer. Booklet features an essay by film scholar Catherine Russell

Midwest Tape

black and white

monaural

Cinematography by Ichio Yamazaki ; music by Masaru Sato ; editing, Chozo Obata ; art direction, Yoshiro Muraki ; costume design, Masahiro Kato

other

9781681431413

videodisc

Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Misa Uehara, Eiko Miyoshi, Toshiko Higuchi

1 videodisc (139 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.)

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)939439918

DVD; NTSC, region 1; monaural; Dolby digital; widescreen (2.39:1)

715515174817

CC2616DDVD -- The Criterion CollectionCC2616D -- The Criterion Collection

DVD