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Ugetsu / Janus Films ; a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
LIBRA DVD 008 100
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 309.
- The Criterion collection ; 309
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Ueda, Akinari, 1734-1809--Film adaptations.
- Ueda, Akinari.
- Ueda, Akinari, 1734-1809.
- Samurai films.
- Japanese literature--Edo period, 1600-1868--Film adaptations.
- Japanese literature.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Japanese literature--Edo period.
- Genre:
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (69 pages : illustrations).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2005]
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A tale of greed, ambition, and enchantment set in sixteenth century Japan. A potter and his neighbor abandon their wives in order to seek their fortunes from war. Their wives, however, suffer the consquences of their husbands' ambitions.
- Participant:
- Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Masayuki Mori, Sakae Ozawa.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa; music by Fumio Hayasaka; film editor, Mitsuzo Miyata.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.
- Special features: Disc 1. New restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by critic, filmmaker and festival programmer Tony Rayns; Process and production, a 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director of Ugetsu; 10-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992; theatrical trailers; new and improved English subtitles -- Disc 2. Kenji Mizoguchi: the life of a film director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved English subtitles.
- Accompanying booklet features an essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film: "The house in the thicket" and "A serpent's lust" by Akinara Ueda from his book "Ugetsu monogatari" and "How he got the Legion of Honor" by Guy de Maupassant.
- Venice Film Festival, 1953: Silver lion.
- Contains:
- Kenji Mizoguchi, the life of a film director.
- ISBN:
- 0780030303
- OCLC:
- 62465531
- Publisher Number:
- 037429209325
- UGE020 Criterion Collection
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