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Kagemusha

]]> [United States] : Criterion, 2005 .
2 videodiscs (180 min.) : , Widescreen (letterbox format) | Originally released as a motion picture in 1980. | Special features: [disc 1] audio commentary by Kurosawa scholar Stephen Prince. [disc 2] Lucas, Coppola, and Kurosawa (19 min., 2005 ; interview with Lucas and Coppola) ; 41 min. documentary on Kagemusha (part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create) ; Image: Kurosawa's Continuity (43 min. video that reconstructs Kagemusha through Kurosawa's paintings and sketches) ; Suntory commercials made on set ; storyboards. Booklet featuring new essay by Peter Grilli, an interview by Tony Rayns, and biographical sketches by Japanese film historian Donald Richie. 4 3/4 in. +.
1559409541 | 9781559409544

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Seven samurai

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2006 .
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : , Title and credits from English subtitles, transliterated from the Japanese. | Edition from container and disc label. | Series numbering from container spine. | Originally released as a motion picture in 1954. | Special features: Disc 1: Two audio commentaries--one by film scholars David Desser, Joan Mellen, Stephen Prince, Tony Rayns, and Donald Richie, and one by Japanese-film expert Michael Jeck; theatrical trailers and teaser; gallery of rare posters and behind-the-scenes and production stills ; Disc 2: A 50-minute documentary on the making of 'Seven samurai', created as part of the "Toho masterworks" series "Akira Kurosawa : it is wonderful to create" ; Disc 3: "My life in cinema", a two-hour video conversation between Akira Kurosawa and Nagisa Oshima from 1993, produced by the Directors Guild of Japan; "'Seven samurai': origins and influences", a new documentary looking at the samurai traditions and films that impacted Kurosawa's masterpiece. | Booklet features essays by Kenneth Turan, Peter Cowie, Philip Kemp, Peggy Chiao, Alain Silver, and Stuart Galbraith IV; tributes from Arthur Penn and Signey Lumet; and a reminiscence by Toshiro Mifune. 4 3/4 in. +.

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Rashomon

]]> [Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, 2002 .
1 videodisc (88 min.) : , 1.33:1 aspect ratio; RSDL dual layer; high definition transfer with restored image and sound. | Based on In a bush by Ryåunosuke Akutagawa. | Originally issued as a motion picture in 1950 by Daiei, Japan. | Special features include: commentary by Japanese-film historian Donald Richie; video introduction by Robert Altman; excerpts from The world of Kazuo Miyagawa (cinematographer); reprints from Rashomon source stories, Ryunosuke Akutagawa's "In a bush" and "Rashomon"; excerpt about Rashomon from Kurosawa's book "Something like an autobiography"; theatrical trailer. 4 3/4 in..
0780024591 | 9780780024595

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