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
Type
Label
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
Language
jpn
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
The hidden fortress
Oclc number
939439918
Responsibility statement
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
Runtime
139
Series statement
Criterion collection, 116
Summary
A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry humor, and breathtaking action
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Fujimoto, Masumi, 1910-1979
- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Russell, Catherine, 1959-
- Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989
- Uehara, Misa
- Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
- Lucas, George, 1944-
- Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
- Miyoshi, Eiko
- Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999
- Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
- Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
- Yamazaki, Ichio
- Janus Films
- Katō, Masahiro
- Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985
- Obata, Chozo
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Muraki, Yoshirō
- Satō, Masaru, 1928-1999
- Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
- Fujita, Susumu, 1912-1991
Genre
Subject
- DVD-Video discs
- Samurai films
- Feudalism -- Japan -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Gold -- Japan -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Princesses -- Japan -- Drama
- Films d'aventures
- Films de fiction
- Films de samouraï
- Escapes -- Japan -- Drama
- Action and adventure films
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
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- Fujimoto, Masumi, 1910-1979
- Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha
- Russell, Catherine, 1959-
- Kikushima, Ryūzō, 1914-1989
- Uehara, Misa
- Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997
- Lucas, George, 1944-
- Oguni, Hideo, 1904-1996
- Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998
- Miyoshi, Eiko
- Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999
- Prince, Stephen, 1955-2020
- Hashimoto, Shinobu, 1918-2018
- Yamazaki, Ichio
- Janus Films
- Katō, Masahiro
- Fujiwara, Kamatari, 1905-1985
- Obata, Chozo
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Muraki, Yoshirō
- Satō, Masaru, 1928-1999
- Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982
- Fujita, Susumu, 1912-1991
- Genre10
- Subject14
- DVD-Video discs
- Samurai films
- Feudalism -- Japan -- Drama
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Feature films
- Gold -- Japan -- Drama
- Fiction films
- Princesses -- Japan -- Drama
- Films d'aventures
- Films de fiction
- Films de samouraï
- Escapes -- Japan -- Drama
- Action and adventure films
- Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives
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