Criterion/Voyager (1962)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Foreign
Japan | Japanese | Black & White | 01:35
A 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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Toshirô Mifune | Sanjûrô Tsubaki |
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Tatsuya Nakadai | Hanbei Muroto |
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Keiju Kobayashi | The Spy |
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Yuzo Kayama | Iori Izaka |
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Reiko Dan | Chidori / Mutsuta's daughter |
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Takashi Shimura | Kurofuji |
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Kamatari Fujiwara | Takebayashi |
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Takako Irie | Mutsuta's wife |
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Masao Shimizu | Kikui |
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Yunosuke Ito | Mutsuta / the Chamberlain |
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Akira Kubo | Samurai |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa | Samurai |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya | Samurai |
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Kunie Tanaka | Samurai |
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Tatsuyoshi Ehara | Samurai |
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Akihiko Hirata | Samurai |
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Toranosuke Ogawa | Sandayu |
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Sachio Sakai | Foot soldier |
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Kenzo Matsui | Samurai |
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Toshiko Higuchi | Chamber maid |
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Tatsuhiko Namisato | Samurai |
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Yutaka Sada | Murota samurai |
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Shin Otomo | Samurai on horseback |
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Shoichi Hirose | Samurai on watch duty |
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Minoru Ito |
| Director | Akira Kurosawa |
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| Writer | Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Akira Kurosawa, Shugoro Yamamoto | |
| Producer | Ryuzo Kikushima, Tomoyuki Tanaka | |
| Musician | Masaru Satô | |
| Photography | Fukuzo Koizumi, Takao Saitô | |
| Edition | Criterion Collection Spine #53 |
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| Packaging | Keep Case |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Theatrical Widescreen (2.35:1) |
| Audio Tracks | Dolby Digital 3.0 [Japanese] Dolby Digital Mono [Japanese] SUB [English] |
| Subtitles | English |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Jan 23, 2007 |
| Regions | Region 1 |