Seven samurai /

This epic masterpiece is about a group of 16th-century samurai who are hired to defend a small Japanese village that finds itself annually raided by an army of bandits who steal the meager crops harvested by the peasants. Tired of relinquishing their food supply but woefully inept in combat skills,...

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Bibliographic Details

Uniform Title:	Shichinin no samurai (Motion picture)
Corporate Authors:	Tōhō Kabushiki Kaisha, Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films, Home Vision (Firm)
Other Authors:	Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998, Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997, Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982, Tsushima, Keiko
Format:	Video DVD
Language:	Japanese
Language Notes:	In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
Published:	[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [1998]
Edition:	RSDL dual-layer ed.
Series:	Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 2. Classic collection (Chicago, Ill.)
Subjects:	Samurai films. Action and adventure films. Foreign films. Motion pictures, Japanese. Feature films.