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Akai satsui = Intentions of murder / Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; kikaku, Takagi Masayuki, Tomoda Jirō ; gensaku, Fujiwara Shinji ; kyakuhon, Hasebe Keiji, Imamura Shōhei ; kantoku, Imamura Shōhei.
赤い殺意 日活株式会社製作 ; 企画, 高木雅行, 友田二郎 ; 原作, 藤原審爾 ; 脚本, 長谷部慶治, 今村昌平 ; 監督, 今村昌平.
LIBRA DVD 003 384 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 474.
- The Criterion collection ; 474
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Rape.
- Murder.
- Abused wives.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Japan.
- Fujiwara, Shinji, 1921-1984--Film adaptations.
- Fujiwara, Shinji, 1921-1984.
- Women--Japan--Social conditions--20th century--Drama.
- Abused wives--Japan--Drama.
- Murder--Japan--Drama.
- Rape--Japan--Drama.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Film adaptations.
- Feature films.
- Social problem films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (150 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Other Title:
- Intentions of murder
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society.
- Participant:
- 6 880-02 Harukawa Masumi, Nishimura Akira, Tsuyuguchi Shigeru, Katō Yoshi, Kitamura Kazuo.
- 春川ますみ, 西村晃, 露口茂, 加藤嘉, 北村和夫.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, Himeda Shinsuku; music, Mayuzumi Toshirō; art, Nakamura Kimihiko ; editor, Tanji Mutsuo.
- Cinematographer, 姬田真佐久; music, 黛敏郎; art, 中村公彦; editor, 丹治睦夫.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel by Shinji Fujiwara.
- DVD of the motion pictures originally produced in 1964.
- Originally issued in boxed set with title: Pigs, pimps & prostitutes : 3 films by Shohei Imamura (Criterion collection ; 471)
- Special features include: conversation between Imamura and critic Tadao Sato ; interview with Tony Rayns ; booklet essay by James Quandt.
- Contains:
- Quandt, James, 1956- Eros and civilization.
- Pigs, pimps and prostitutes.
- ISBN:
- 9781604651546
- 1604651547
- 9781604651553
- 1604651555
- OCLC:
- 320473428
- Publisher Number:
- 715515046015
- CC1813D The Criterion Collection
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