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Kuroi kawa / Shōchiku ; seisaku Kuwata Ryōtarō ; kyakuhon Matsuyama Zenzō ; kantoku Kobayashi Masaki.
黒い河 松竹株式 ; 製作桑田良太郎 ; 脚本松山善三 ; 監督小林正樹.
LIBRA DVD 022 059
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- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Tomishima, Takeo, 1931-1998. Kuroi kawa, author.
- Series:
- Eclipse (Criterion Collection (Firm)). Masaki Kobayashi, against the system Series 38,
- Eclipse series ; 38
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (1939-1951).
- Criminals.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations).
- Japan.
- Tomishima, Takeo, 1931-1998--Film adaptations.
- Tomishima, Takeo.
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Japan--Drama.
- Criminals--Japan--Drama.
- Reconstruction (1939-1951)--Japan--Drama.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Fullscreen.
- Other Title:
- English title on container and disc label: Black river
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2013.
- Language Note:
- Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, region 1 ; Dolby digital mono., NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Examines the rampant moral corruption on and around U.S. military bases in Japan following World War II. Kobayashi spirals out from the story of a love triangle that develops between a good-natured student, his innocent girlfriend, and a coldhearted criminal to reveal a nation slowly succumbing to lawlessness and violence.
- Participant:
- Ineko Arima, Fumio Watanabe, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isuzu Yamada.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Yūharu Atsuta ; editor, Yoshiyasu Hamamura ; music, Chūji Kinoshita.
- Notes:
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1956.
- 1.33:1 aspect ratio.
- Original story by Tomishima Takeo.
- ISBN:
- 9781604656961
- 1604656964
- OCLC:
- 834665570
- Publisher Number:
- ECL174 The Criterion Collection
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