The hidden fortress [DVD videorecording] / Janus Films ; Toho Scope ; executive producers, Sanezumi Fujimoto and Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay by Ryuzo Kikushima, Hideo Oguni, Shinobu Hashimoto and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Title :

The hidden fortress

Format:

DVD

Summary:

Widescreen. A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry humor, and breathtaking action.

Language:

Japanese

Language Note:

Japanese dialogue; English subtitles; subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing.

ISBN - ISSN:

9781681431413

UPC/EAN:

715515174817

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.)

General Note:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

Widescreen (2.39:1).

Special features: Commentary (features film historian Stephen Prince); Akira Kurosawa: it is wonderful to create (documentary from 2003 on the making of the film and its widescreen cinematography); George Lucas on Akira Kurosawa (interview from 2001 with the filmmaker, pays tribute to the visual mastery of Kurosawa and details the elements of the film that directly inspired Star Wars); Trailer. Booklet features an essay by film scholar Catherine Russell.

Subject:

Princesses -- Japan -- Drama.

Feudalism -- Japan -- Drama.

Escapes -- Japan -- Drama.

Gold -- Japan -- Drama.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Samurai films.

Action and adventure films.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Series:

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;

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A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one. A general charged with guarding his defeated clan's princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. Accompanying them are a pair of bumbling, conniving peasants who may or may not be their friends. This rip-roaring ride is among the director's most beloved films and was a primary influence on George Lucas's Star Wars. Delivers Kurosawa's trademark deft blend of wry humor, and breathtaking action.

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Library Journal Review

After escaping enemy abduction, a princess and her entourage hide out in a secret mountain stronghold in Fortress, the film that inspired Star Wars. Very loosely adapted from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Blood relocates the tragic tale to feudal-era Japan, where an ambitious warrior ascends to power. Both Akira Kurosawa classics, starring regular collaborator Tishuro Mifune, get digital makeovers of decade-old disc-catalog titles showing signs of age. Fans of the renowned filmmaker have been given a reason to rewatch them. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.