Kurosawa Samurai Collection - 5-DVD Box Set ( Shichinin no samurai / Kumonosu-jô / Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / Yojimbo / Tsubaki Sanjûrô ) ( Seven Samurai (7 Samurai) / Throne of Blood / The Hidden Fortress / The Bodyguard / Sanjuro )

Kurosawa Samurai Collection - 5-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

$61.99

Original Title: Shichinin no samurai / Kumonosu-jô / Kakushi-toride no san-akunin / Yojimbo / Tsubaki Sanjûrô
Alternate Title: Seven Samurai (7 Samurai) / Throne of Blood / The Hidden Fortress / The Bodyguard / Sanjuro
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Berlin International Film Festival
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
633 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1954 - 1962 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Akira Kurosawa

Written By:
Akira Kurosawa
Shinobu Hashimoto
Hideo Oguni
Ryûzô Kikushima

Actors:
Toshirô Mifune ..... Kikuchiyo
Takashi Shimura ..... Kanbei
Keiko Tsushima ..... Shino
Yukiko Shimazaki ..... Wife
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Farmer Manzo
Daisuke Katô ..... Shichiroji
Isao Kimura ..... Katsushiro
Minoru Chiaki ..... Heihachi
Seiji Miyaguchi ..... Kyuzo
Yoshio Kosugi ..... Farmer Mosuke
Bokuzen Hidari ..... Farmer Yohei
Yoshio Inaba ..... Gorobei Katayama
Yoshio Tsuchiya ..... Farmer Rikichi
Kokuten Kôdô ..... Old Man Gisaku
Eijirô Tono ..... Thief
Toshirô Mifune ..... Taketoki Washizu
Isuzu Yamada ..... Lady Asaji Washizu
Takashi Shimura ..... Noriyasu Odagura
Akira Kubo ..... Yoshiteru Miki
Hiroshi Tachikawa ..... Kunimaru Tsuzuki
Minoru Chiaki ..... Yoshiaki Miki
Takamaru Sasaki ..... Kuniharu Tsuzuki
Gen Shimizu ..... Military Commander
Kokuten Kôdô ..... Washizu's workman
Kichijirô Ueda ..... Old Woman at castle
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Old Ghost Woman
Chieko Naniwa ..... Second Military Commander
Nakajirô Tomita ..... Washizu samurai
Yû Fujiki ..... Washizu samurai
Sachio Sakai
Toshirô Mifune ..... General Rokurota Makabe
Minoru Chiaki ..... Tahei
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Matashichi
Susumu Fujita ..... General Hyoe Tadokoro
Takashi Shimura ..... The Old General, Izumi Nagakura
Misa Uehara ..... Princess Yuki
Eiko Miyoshi ..... Old Lady-in-Waiting
Toshiko Higuchi ..... Farmer's Daughter bought from slave trader
Yû Fujiki ..... Barrier guard
Yoshio Tsuchiya ..... Samurai on horse
Kokuten Kôdô ..... Old man in front of sign
Takeshi Katô ..... Fleeing, bloody samurai
Kôji Mitsui ..... Guard
Toranosuke Ogawa ..... Magistrate of the bridge barrier
Kichijirô Ueda ..... Slave Trader
Toshirô Mifune ..... Sanjuro Kuwabatake
The Samurai ..... Unosuke, gunfighter
Tatsuya Nakadai ..... Nui
Yôko Tsukasa ..... Orin
Isuzu Yamada ..... Inokichi, Ushitora's rotund brother
Daisuke Katô ..... Seibê - brothel operator
Seizaburô Kawazu ..... Tokuemon, sake brewer
Takashi Shimura ..... Yoichiro
Hiroshi Tachikawa ..... Kohei's Son
Yôsuke Natsuki ..... Gonji, tavern keeper
Eijirô Tono ..... Tazaemon
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Hansuke
Ikio Sawamura ..... The Cooper (Coffin-Maker)
Atsushi Watanabe ..... Homma, instructor who skips town
Susumu Fujita ..... Ushitora
Kyû Sazanka
Toshirô Mifune ..... Sanjûrô Tsubaki
The Samurai ..... Hanbei Muroto
Tatsuya Nakadai ..... The Spy
Keiju Kobayashi ..... Iori Izaka
Yûzô Kayama ..... Chidori, Mutsuta's daughter
Reiko Dan ..... Kurofuji
Takashi Shimura ..... Takebayashi
Kamatari Fujiwara ..... Mutsuta's wife
Takako Irie ..... Kikui
Masao Shimizu ..... Mutsuta, the Chamberlain
Yûnosuke Itô ..... Samurai
Akira Kubo ..... Samurai
Hiroshi Tachikawa ..... Samurai
Yoshio Tsuchiya ..... Samurai
Kunie Tanaka ..... Samurai
Tatsuyoshi Ehara

Synopsis:

Seven Samurai (1954)
A veteran samurai, who has fallen on hard times, answers a village's request for protection from bandits. He gathers 6 other samurai to help him, and they teach the townspeople how to defend themselves, and they supply the samurai with three small meals a day. The film culminates in a giant battle when 40 bandits attack the village.

Throne of Blood (1957)
In the 16th Century in Japan, the brave generals Taketori Washizu (Toshirô Mifune) and Yoshiaki Miki (Minoru Chiaki) are invited to visit their lord in his castle after a battle wined by them against a traitor general.

The Hidden Fortress (1958)
During Japan's feudal wars, two cowardly farmers stumble upon an attempt by a defeated army general to get the last member of his ruling house - a wilful young princess - to safety in friendly territory.

The Bodyguard (1961)
Story of one-time samurai who takes on the job as bodyguard to a warring faction in a small village.

Sanjuro (1962)
A group of idealistic young men, determined to clean up the corruption in their town, are aided by a scruffy, cynical samurai who does not at all fit their concept of a noble warrior.

Seven Samurai (1954)
In the Sixteenth Century, in Japan, a poor village is frequently looted by armed bandits losing their crop of rice. Their patriarch Grandpa advises the villagers to hire a Ronin to defend their village. Four farmers head to town to seek out their possible protectors, but they just can offer three meals of rice per day and lodging for the samurai. They succeed in hiring the warming-hearted veteran Kambei Shimada that advises that they need six other samurai to protect their lands. Kambei recruits the necessary five samurai and the brave jester Kikuchiyo and move to the village. After a feared reception, Kambei plots a defense strategy and the samurai start training the farmers how to defend their lands and families for the battle that approaches.

Throne of Blood (1957)
A transposition of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to medieval Japan. After a great military victory, Lords Washizu and Miki are lost in the dense Cobweb Forest, where they meet a mysterious old woman who predicts great things for Washizu and even greater things for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu and Miki are immediately promoted by the Emperor. Washizu, encouraged by his ambitious wife, plots to make even more of the prophecy come true, even if it means killing the Emperor...

The Hidden Fortress (1958)
Princess Yuki Akizuki ('Yukihime' in Japanese) is to be led through enemy territory, where she may rebuild her kingdom with gold that she has in her caravan. She is assisted by her trusted general, Rokurota Makabe, who insists that she masquarades as a mute farmer. Two minions, Tahei and Matashichi help unknowingly, as they believe they will get a piece of the gold if they help the princess attain her goals.

The Bodyguard (1961)
Sanjuro, a wandering samurai enters a rural town in nineteenth century Japan. After learning from the innkeeper that the town is divided between two gangsters, he plays one side off against the other. His efforts are complicated by the arrival of the wily Unosuke, the son of one of the gangsters, who owns a revolver. Unosuke has Sanjuro beaten after he reunites an abducted woman with her husband and son, then massacres his father's opponents. During the slaughter, the samurai escapes with the help of the innkeeper; but while recuperating at a nearby temple, he learns of innkeeper's abduction by Unosuke, and returns to the town to confront him.

Sanjuro (1962)
In Japan circa Eighteenth Century, nine young men decide to present an accusation of corruption in their clan to the local superintendent. However, the group is betrayed, but the ronin Sanjûrô Tsubaki (Toshirô Mifune) saves them from the superintendent's men. The uncle of the leader of the rebel clansmen, the Chamberlain Mutsuta (Yûnosuke Itô), is kidnapped, and his wife and daughter are detained and made prisoner of the superintendent, and he tries to force Mutsuta to write a fake confession letter declaring being corrupt. Sanjûrô helps the group to rescue the Chamberlain and his family.

Seven Samurai (1954): A desperate village hires seven samurai to protect it from marauders in this crown jewel of Japanese cinema. No other film so seamlessly weaves philosophy and entertainment, delicate human emotions and relentless action. Featuring Japan's legendary star, the great Toshiro Mifune, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai is an inspired epic, a triumph of art, and an unforgettable three-hour ride.

Throne of Blood (1957): Kurosawa's transposition of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to sixteenth century Japan is, like the great Russian adaptations of 'King Lear' and 'Hamlet', immensely successful in capturing the 'spirit' of the original. Any loss in language or characterisation is more than compensated by the evocation of the misty and forbidding locale, the bravura ghostly apparitions, and the fascinating incursions of specifically Japanese elements, such as the echoes of Noh drama.

The Hidden Fortress (1958): A story of rival clans, hidden gold and a princess in distress, The Hidden Fortress is a thrilling mix of fairy story and samurai action movie. It was Kurosawa's first film shot in the widescreen process of Tohoscope, and he exploited this to the full in the film's rich variety of landscape locations, including the slopes of Mount Fuji.

Yojimbo (1961): Donning his sword again, Toshiro Mifune (he was the `crazy' one in Kurosawa's Seven Samurai) allows fate to lead him into an un-named town. Showing his prowess with the Samurai sword within minutes of arrival, the town's two rival factions are soon competing for his services, only to ultimately bring about their own mutual destruction.

Sanjuro (1962): Sequel to Kurosawa's own Yojimbo in which the crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent...

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