Directed by: Akira Inoue, Satsuo Yamamoto, Kihachi Okamoto, Shintaro Katsu, Kazuo Ikehiro, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Tokuzo Tanaka, Kenji Misumi, Kazuo Mori, Tokuzo Tanaka
Featuring: Shintaro Katsu, Naoko Kubo, Rentaro Mikuni, Shogo Shimada, Nobuo Kaneko, Jushiro Konoe, Michiyo Okusu, Mikio Narita, Norihei Miki, Shigeru Amachi, Kanbi Fujiyama, Shiho Fujimara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Jimmy Wang Yu, Toshiro Mifune, Yoshiko Mita, Yukiyo Toake, Kiwako Taichi, Takashi Shimura, Mikiko Tsubouchi, Miwa Takada, Makoto Sato, Masayo Banri, Jun Hamamura, Isao Yamagata, Katsuo Nakamura, Eijiro Tono, Chizuru Hayashi, Yoshie Mizutani, Mayumi Nagisa, Machiko Hasegawa, Tomisaburo Wakayama, Seizaburo Kawazu, Ko Nishimura, Eiko Taki, Reiko Fujiwara, Takeshi Kato, Yuko Hamada, Hisashi Igawa, Yoshihiko Aoyama, Mikijiro Hira, Ryuzo Shimada, Kaneko Iwasaki, Fujio Suga, Masako Akeboshi, Eiji Okada, Kenjiro Ishiyama, Toru Abe, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Gen Kimura, Fujio Harumoto, Masao Mishima, Gaku Yamamoto, Kichijiro Ueda, Koichi Mizuhara, Sachiko Kobayashi, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kunie Tanaka, Kei Sato, Mayumi Ogawa, Masumi Harukawa, Tatsuo Endo, Rie Yokoyama, Makota Fujita, Sonosuke Sawamura, Sachiko Murase
Year: 1962-1973
Time: 2197 total min.
 
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 679
Release Date: September 13 2016
MSRP: $199.95
 
Blu-ray
9 Discs | BD-50
2.35:1 ratio
Japanese 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
 
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