Shichinin no samurai : Seven samurai

Resource Information

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Label

Shichinin no samurai : Seven samurai

Title remainder

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

• Seven samurai
• 7 samurai

Creator

• Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)

Contributor

• Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985
• Motoki, Sōjirō
• Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988
• Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996
• Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
• Tsuchiya, Yoshio, 1927-2017
• Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
• Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955
• Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999
• Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971
• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inaba, Yoshio, 1920-1998
• Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975
• Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981
• Janus Films
• Kosugi, Yoshio, 1903-1968
• Criterion Collection (Firm)
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
• Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977
• Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985

Actor

• Hidari, Bokuzen, 1894-1971
• Kosugi, Yoshio, 1903-1968
• Kimura, Isao, 1923-1981
• Katō, Daisuke, 1911-1975
• Inaba, Yoshio, 1920-1998
• Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999
• Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985
• Tsushima, Keiko, 1926-2012
• Tsuchiya, Yoshio, 1927-2017
• Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
• Shimazaki, Yukiko, 1931-
• Miyaguchi, Seiji, 1913-1985
• Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997

Art director

• Matsuyama, So, 1908-1977

Director of photography

• Nakai, Asakazu, 1901-1988

Film director

• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998

Film distributor

• Janus Films

Film producer

• Motoki, Sōjirō

Production company

• Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha

Publisher

• Criterion Collection (Firm)

Screenwriter

• Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996
• Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
• Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018

Subject

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

Genre

• Feature films
• Feature
• Motion pictures, Japanese
• Drama
• History
• Adventure
• Action and adventure films
• Foreign films
• Fiction films
• Samurai 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"--Container

Member of

• Criterion collection, 2

Awards note

Academy Award: Honorary Award - Best Foreign Language Film first released in the U.S. during 1955.

Cataloging source

DPL

Characteristic

videorecording

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Credits note

Cinematography, Asakazu Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka ; art direction, Takashi Matsuyama

Language note

Soundtrack: Japanese; with optional English subtitles

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