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Auction History Result 8y132 SEVEN SAMURAI linen roadshow Japanese 18x22 1954 Kurosawa's Shichinin No Samurai, Mifune, rare! Date Sold 9/10/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Linenbacked Japanese Movie Poster (measures 17 1/2" x 21 1/2" [44 x 55 cm]) (Learn More) Shichinin No Samurai (released in the U.S. in 1956 as "The Magnificent Seven", and in other English-speaking countries as "The Seven Samurai"), the classic 1954 Akira Kurosawa Japanese hired-professionals-save-a-tiny-town action epic (this great movie was the basis for the equally classic "The Magnificent Seven", it won the New York Film Critics award and was nominated for two Oscars!) starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshio Inaba, and Minoru Chiaki. Note that this film was first released in the U.S. under the title "The Magnificent Seven". We're not sure when the U.S. title was changed to the now familiar "The Seven Samurai", but it was certainly before the 1960 "The Magnificent Seven" was released (we have found newspaper ads from 1957 that still use the original title). NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: This poster is from the 1954 roadshow release of this movie in Japan, and it had a blank bottom area (similar to the blank top area found on U.S. window cards), where theaters could write its specific play date information in that area. Someone trimmed off that bottom area from this poster (Japanese posters of this size are often found with this trimming). We have previously auctioned this poster twice, one with the bottom area intact, which sold for $1,059, and the other with the bottom area trimmed off, and that one auctioned for $925. What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: very good. The poster was never folded. It had a blank area at the bottom that was neatly trimmed off (see above for more on this). It had three tiny pinholes in the top border and some horizontal creases across the lower part of the image. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The poster was nicely backed, and displays well! Learn More about condition grades 
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