SEVEN SAMURAI, THE [七人の侍] (1954) Japanese program

Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, dir: Akira Kurosawa; Toho. Vintage original 10 x 7″ (25 x 18 cm) program, pictorial wrappers, 6 pp., Japan. Folded (twice, but lightly), overall very good-.

One of the most classic of all Japanese samurai films, an epic which got remade in 1960 as The Magnificent Seven.

This original Japanese program is extremely scarce. Its back wrapper is in full color and, in effect, a small poster for the film. The inner pages contain a wealth of illustrations from it.