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2 videocassettes (208 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
A 16th-century Japanese village hires professional warriors to fend off bandits. The film's ending finds the samurai leaving the village, after helping to put an end to the bandits, knowing that the real victors in the fight were the farmers.
Toho Company ; produced by Sojiro Motoki ; directed by Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Hideo Oguni.
Original released in 1954 as a motion picture.
Takashi Shimura, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshio Inaba, Siji Miyaguchi.
Japanese language with English subtitles.
Art director, So Matsuyama ; photography, Asaichi Nakai ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.