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Seven Samurai

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( Catalog Number CC1167L )
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Seven Samurai
1954 - 204 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to fight for them. However, the poor villagers can merely offer payment in the form of shelter and a daily bowl of rice, and initially only Kambei (Takashi Shimura), a brave elder samurai, and his eager young apprentice, Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), take up their cause. Encountering various nomadic warriors on the streets, they slowly put together his team of swordsmen, recruiting Shichiroji (Daisuke Kat

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. Kambei agrees, although there is no material gain or honor to be had in the endeavor. Soon he attracts a pair of followers: a young samurai named Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), who quickly becomes Kambei's disciple, and boisterous Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), who poses as a samurai but is later revealed to be the son of a farmer. Kambei assembles four other samurais, including Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), a master swordsman, to round out the group. Together they consolidate the village's defenses and shape the villagers into a militia, while the bandits loom menacingly nearby. Soon raids and counter-raids build to a final bloody heart-wrenching battle. --- Jonathan Crow

Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, Seven Samurai was both the apex of Akira Kurosawa's long career and the high-water mark of the Japanese period drama. The film's action rivets the viewer in spite of the three-hour-plus running time: the battle sequences, among the best ever filmed, are immediate and visceral; and the characters are complex and so well-rendered that the viewer grieves when one dies. Like few other historical films, it captures not only the physical look of the time but also its essence. Like Jean Renoir's masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game (1939), Seven Samurai illustrates the collapse of social distinctions and the growing irrelevance of old traditions in dangerous and chaotic times. Kambei shaves his much-prized topknot---the symbol of a samurai---to save the kidnapped child, while master swordsman Kyuzo is gunned down by an anonymous bandit with a musket. Kurosawa questions the division between samurai and bandit, between good and evil. In one scene, peasant-born Kikuchiyo heatedly argues that the samurai have been abusing and exploiting the peasants for centuries. In this framework, the samurais' acts of bravery, selflessness, and honor seem absurd, if not pointless. The peasants' choice of the samurai over the bandits is merely one of a lesser evil. Once the bandits are gone, the samurai will no longer be needed. This is underscored in the film's poignant end, when the surviving three samurai leave the village, receiving neither acclaim nor reward, as the villagers plant rice. American audiences were so impressed with Kurosawa's epic masterpiece that it was remade into John Sturges's Magnificent Seven (1960). --- Jonathan Crow

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Cast for Seven Samurai

Takashi Shimura - Kambei, leader of samurai
Toshiro Mifune - Kikuchiyo, would-be samurai
Yoshio Inaba - Gorobei, wise warrior
Seiji Miyaguchi - Kyuzo, swordsman
Minoru Chiaki - Heihachi, amiable samurai
Daisuke Kato - Shichiroji, Kambei's friend
Ko (Isao) Kimura - Katsushiro, young samurai
Kuninori Kodo - Gisaku, village elder
Gen Shimizu - Masterless Samurai
Noriko Sengoku - Wife from Burned House
Kichijiro Ueda - Bandit
Atsushi Watanabe - Vendor
Yoshio Tsuchiya - Rikichi, militant villager
Isao Yamagata - Samurai
Bokuzen Hidari - Yohei
Fumiko Homma - Peasant Woman
Kamatari Fujiwara - Manzo, Shino's father
Ichiro Chiba - Priest
Keiji Sakakida - Gasaku
Senkichi Omura - Bandit
Yoshio Kosugi - Mosuke
Toranosuke Ogawa - Grandfather
Haruo Nakajima - Bandit

Crew for Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa - Director / Screenwriter / Editor
Shojiro Motoki - Producer
Shinobu Hashimoto - Screenwriter
Hideo Oguni - Screenwriter
Asakazu Nakai - Cinematographer
Fumio Hayasaka - Composer (Music Score)
Takashi Matsuyama - Production Designer
Shinobu Muraki - Production Designer
Yoshiro Muraki - Production Designer
So Matsuyama - Art Director
Hiromichi Horikawa - First Assistant Director
Shigeru Endo - Consultant/advisor
Ienori Kaneko - Consultant/advisor
Yoshio Sugino - Stunts

Awards for Seven Samurai

Competing Film Akira Kurosawa 1954 Venice International Film Festival
Silver Lion Kenji Mizoguchi 1954 Venice International Film Festival
Best Film - Any Source Akira Kurosawa 1955 British Academy Awards
Best Black and White Art Direction (nom) Takashi Matsuyama 1956 Academy
Best Black and White Costume Design (nom) Ezaki, Kohei 1956 Academy

Feature Details

Title: Seven Samurai
Feature Release Date: 1954
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 204 Minutes
Chapters: 29
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CAV

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Catalog Number: CC1167L
UPC: Does not apply
ISBN: 1-55940-002-1
Manufacturer: DADC USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 8
Cover: Box Set
Spoken Language: Japanese
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1167L
Shipping Weight: 3 lbs
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Takashi Shimura and Toshiro Mifune in... Akira Kurosawa's...

Seven Samurai

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( Catalog Number CC1167L )
(1.33:1) (8 Sides) (CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

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Seven Samurai
1954 - 204 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Set in 16th Century Japan, Akira Kurosawa's epic SEVEN SAMURAI follows the plight of a defenseless farming village that lives in constant fear of marauding bandits. The farmers know that when their crops are harvested, the thugs will attack, so four men go to town in hopes of employing samurai to fight for them. However, the poor villagers can merely offer payment in the form of shelter and a daily bowl of rice, and initially only Kambei (Takashi Shimura), a brave elder samurai, and his eager young apprentice, Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), take up their cause. Encountering various nomadic warriors on the streets, they slowly put together his team of swordsmen, recruiting Shichiroji (Daisuke Kat

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Akira Kurosawa's epic tale concerns honor and duty during a time when the old traditional order is breaking down. The film opens with master samurai Kambei (Takashi Shimura) posing as a monk to save a kidnapped farmer's child. Impressed by his selflessness and bravery, a group of farmers begs him to defend their terrorized village from bandits. Kambei agrees, although there is no material gain or honor to be had in the endeavor. Soon he attracts a pair of followers: a young samurai named Katsushiro (Isao Kimura), who quickly becomes Kambei's disciple, and boisterous Kikuchiyo (Toshiro Mifune), who poses as a samurai but is later revealed to be the son of a farmer. Kambei assembles four other samurais, including Kyuzo (Seiji Miyaguchi), a master swordsman, to round out the group. Together they consolidate the village's defenses and shape the villagers into a militia, while the bandits loom menacingly nearby. Soon raids and counter-raids build to a final bloody heart-wrenching battle. --- Jonathan Crow

Widely considered one of the greatest films ever made, Seven Samurai was both the apex of Akira Kurosawa's long career and the high-water mark of the Japanese period drama. The film's action rivets the viewer in spite of the three-hour-plus running time: the battle sequences, among the best ever filmed, are immediate and visceral; and the characters are complex and so well-rendered that the viewer grieves when one dies. Like few other historical films, it captures not only the physical look of the time but also its essence. Like Jean Renoir's masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and Rules of the Game (1939), Seven Samurai illustrates the collapse of social distinctions and the growing irrelevance of old traditions in dangerous and chaotic times. Kambei shaves his much-prized topknot---the symbol of a samurai---to save the kidnapped child, while master swordsman Kyuzo is gunned down by an anonymous bandit with a musket. Kurosawa questions the division between samurai and bandit, between good and evil. In one scene, peasant-born Kikuchiyo heatedly argues that the samurai have been abusing and exploiting the peasants for centuries. In this framework, the samurais' acts of bravery, selflessness, and honor seem absurd, if not pointless. The peasants' choice of the samurai over the bandits is merely one of a lesser evil. Once the bandits are gone, the samurai will no longer be needed. This is underscored in the film's poignant end, when the surviving three samurai leave the village, receiving neither acclaim nor reward, as the villagers plant rice. American audiences were so impressed with Kurosawa's epic masterpiece that it was remade into John Sturges's Magnificent Seven (1960). --- Jonathan Crow

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Cast for Seven Samurai

Takashi Shimura - Kambei, leader of samurai
Toshiro Mifune - Kikuchiyo, would-be samurai
Yoshio Inaba - Gorobei, wise warrior
Seiji Miyaguchi - Kyuzo, swordsman
Minoru Chiaki - Heihachi, amiable samurai
Daisuke Kato - Shichiroji, Kambei's friend
Ko (Isao) Kimura - Katsushiro, young samurai
Kuninori Kodo - Gisaku, village elder
Gen Shimizu - Masterless Samurai
Noriko Sengoku - Wife from Burned House
Kichijiro Ueda - Bandit
Atsushi Watanabe - Vendor
Yoshio Tsuchiya - Rikichi, militant villager
Isao Yamagata - Samurai
Bokuzen Hidari - Yohei
Fumiko Homma - Peasant Woman
Kamatari Fujiwara - Manzo, Shino's father
Ichiro Chiba - Priest
Keiji Sakakida - Gasaku
Senkichi Omura - Bandit
Yoshio Kosugi - Mosuke
Toranosuke Ogawa - Grandfather
Haruo Nakajima - Bandit

Crew for Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa - Director / Screenwriter / Editor
Shojiro Motoki - Producer
Shinobu Hashimoto - Screenwriter
Hideo Oguni - Screenwriter
Asakazu Nakai - Cinematographer
Fumio Hayasaka - Composer (Music Score)
Takashi Matsuyama - Production Designer
Shinobu Muraki - Production Designer
Yoshiro Muraki - Production Designer
So Matsuyama - Art Director
Hiromichi Horikawa - First Assistant Director
Shigeru Endo - Consultant/advisor
Ienori Kaneko - Consultant/advisor
Yoshio Sugino - Stunts

Awards for Seven Samurai

Competing Film Akira Kurosawa 1954 Venice International Film Festival
Silver Lion Kenji Mizoguchi 1954 Venice International Film Festival
Best Film - Any Source Akira Kurosawa 1955 British Academy Awards
Best Black and White Art Direction (nom) Takashi Matsuyama 1956 Academy
Best Black and White Costume Design (nom) Ezaki, Kohei 1956 Academy

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