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    Hidden Fortress

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    Status: IN-STOCK
    Released: 2001-05-22

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    Hidden Fortress DVD Cast & Features Cast:
    Toshiko Higuchi, Koji Mitsui, Tadao Nakamaru, Ikio Sawamura, Kichijiro Ueda, Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Kamatari Fujiwara, Minoru Chiaki, Susumu Fujita, Takashi Shimura, Eiko Miyoshi

    Director(s): Akira Kurosawa

    Features:
    New 16x9 transfer, with digitally restored image and sound
    Exclusive video interview with George Lucas about "The Hidden Fortress"
    Optional Dolby Digital 3.0 soundtrack, preserving the original perspect-a-sound simulated-stereo effects
    Original theatrical trailer
    New and improved English subtitle translation
    Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition
    In Japanese with optional English subtitles
    2.35:1 aspect ratio
    Hidden Fortress DVD Details
    Video:
    Cinemascope
    Audio:
    Dolby Digital Mono
    Dolby Digital w/ 3 discrete audio channels. Includes 2 for the front speakers & 1 mono channel for the surround
    Language:
    japanese
    Subtitles:
    English
    		 Running Time: 139
    Genre: Foreign Film [dub Or Subtitle]
    Item Weight: 1
    UPC: 037429135129
    Product Code: CRRNHID040DVD
    Format: DVD
    Year:1958
    Studio: Criterion
    Hidden Fortress DVD Summary Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress (original Japanese title: Kakushi Toride No San Akunin) stars Minoru Chiaki and Kamatari Fujiwara as a pair of misfit soldiers.

    Running from the enemy after a disastrous defeat, the two soldiers fall in with general Toshiro Mifune, who is in search of a huge cache of gold.

    Mifune is also desirous of freeing princess-in-exile Misa Uehara from the clutches of the evil victorious army.

    Several large and small battles ensue before Mifune can realize his goal.

    If the plot of Hidden Fortress sounds vaguely familiar to you, try this exercise: substitute two robots for Chiaki and Fujiwara, Mark Hamill for Mifune, and Carrie Fisher for Uehara.

    George Lucas himself admitted that Hidden Fortress was a principal inspiration for his Star Wars saga; stretching the point farther, both Hidden Fortress and Star Wars had their roots in John Ford's The Searchers.

    Originally released in a 137-minute form, The Hidden Fortress was sliced to ribbons by its American distributors, and years later received extensive restoration.