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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
In the year 1860, a wandering samurai-for-hire turns the war between two clans fighting for control of a small town to his own advantage. A satire on greed, violence, paranoia and human weakness.
a Toho Company, Ltd. production ; produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka and Ryuzo Kikushima ; directed by Akiro Kurosawa ; screenplay by Ryuzo Kikushima and Hideo Oguni.
Japanese soundtrack with English subtitles.
Videodisc release of the 1961 motion picture.
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Eijiro Tono, Ikio Sawamura, Seizaburo Kawazu, Kamatari Fujiwara, Isuzu Yamada, Atsushi Watanabi, Kiji Sazanka, Yoko Tsukasa, Daisaku Kato, Tatsuya Nakadai.
DVD ; Dolby digital ; single layer ; aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Akira Kurosawa ; music, Masaru Sato ; costumes, Yoshiro Muraki.
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 52