Seven Samurai

 

Year: 1954

Time: 207 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 2

Release Date: Tuesday, 19 October 2010

MSRP: $49.95

 

Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.33:1

Japanese PCM Mono 1.0

Japanese PCM Stereo 2.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Audio commentary featuring David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie   Audio commentary by Michael Jeck   Fifty-minute documentary on the making of Seven Samurai, created as part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create   My Life in Cinema, a two-hour video conversation from 1993 between directors Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima   Seven Samurai: Origins and Influences, a documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that helped shape Kurosawa's masterpiece   Theatrical trailers and teaser   Gallery of rare posters, behind-the scenes photos, and production stills   A booklet featuring essays by Kenneth Turan, Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, Stuart Galbraith, Arthur Penn, and Sidney Lumet and an interview with Toshiro Mifune from 1993