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Kijû Yoshida : love + anarchism = Yoshida Kijū : ai + anākizumu.
Kijû Yoshida : love + anarchism = 吉田良重 : 愛 + アナーキズム.
LIBRA DVD PN1997 .K568 2015 disc 1-4 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Japanese
- Subjects (All):
- Ōsugi, Sakae, 1885-1923.
- Kita, Ikki, 1883-1937.
- Motion picture producers and directors.
- History.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Feminists.
- Anarchists.
- Japan.
- Kita, Ikki, 1883-1937--Drama.
- Kita, Ikki.
- Ōsugi, Sakae, 1885-1923--Drama.
- Ōsugi, Sakae.
- Anarchists--Japan.
- Feminists--Japan.
- Man-woman relationships--Japan--Drama.
- Japan--History--Taishō period, 1912-1926--Drama.
- Japan--History--February Incident, 1936 (February 26)--Drama.
- Motion pictures--Japan.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion picture producers and directors--Japan.
- Yoshida, Yoshishige, 1933-2022.
- Yoshida, Yoshishige.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Biographical films.
- Erotic films.
- Feature films.
- History.
- Motion pictures, Japanese.
- Feature films -- Japan.
- Foreign language films -- Japanese.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 4 videodiscs (611 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (76 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm)
- 4 3/4 in. stamping
- Edition:
- Limited edition.
- Other Title:
- Love and anarchism
- Ai + anākizumu
- 愛 + アナーキズム
- エロス＋虐殺 = Eros + massacre.
- 煉獄エロイカ = Heroic purgatory.
- 戒厳令 = Coup d'etat.
- Place of Publication:
- Hertfordshire, UK : Arrow Films, 2015.
- Language Note:
- In Japanese with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 0; aspect ratios: 2.35:1 (disc 1-2) & 1.33.1 (disc 3-4); audio: Dolby Digital 1.0 mono.
- digital optical mono
- Dolby Digital 1.0
- full screen (1.33:1)
- widescreen (2.35:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD video Region 0
- Summary:
- The work of Kiju Yoshida is one of Japanese cinema's obscure pleasures. A contemporary of Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses) and Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower, Assassination), Yoshida started out as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita before making his directorial debut at age 27. In the decades that followed he produced more than 20 features and documentaries, yet each and every one has proven difficult to see in the English-speaking world.
- This collection brings together three works from the late sixties and early seventies, a loose trilogy united by their radical politics and an even more radical shooting style. Eros + Massacre (1969), presented here in both its 169-minute theatrical version and the full-length 220-minute director's cut, tells the parallel stories of early 20th-century anarchist (and free love advocate) Sakae Osugi and a pair of student activists. Their stories interact and intertwine, resulting in a complex, rewarding work that is arguably Yoshida's masterpiece.
- Heroic Purgatory (1970) pushes the dazzling cinematic language of Eros + Massacre even further, presenting a bleak but dreamlike investigation into the political discourses taking place in early seventies Japan. Coup d'état (1973) returns to the past for a biopic of Ikki Kita, the right-wing extremist who sought to overthrow the government in 1936. Yoshida considered the film to be the culmination of his work, promptly retiring from feature filmmaking following its completion.
- Contents:
- Discs 1-2. Erosu＋gyakusatsu = Eros + massacre (director's cut, 215 minutes; theatrical version, 164 minutes)
- Disc 3. Rengoku eroika = Heroic purgatory (118 minutes)
- Disc 4. Kaigenrei = Coup d'état (110 minutes).
- Discs 1-2. エロス＋虐殺 = Eros + massacre (director's cut, 215 minutes; theatrical version, 164 minutes)
- Disc 3. 煉獄エロイカ = Heroic purgatory (118 minutes)
- Disc 4. 戒厳令 = Coup d'état (110 minutes).
- Participant:
- Erosu＋gyakusatsu = Eros + massacre: Okada Mariko, Hosokawa Toshiyuki, Kusunoki Yūko, Ii Toshiko, Harada Daijirō.
- Rengoku eroika = Heroic purgatory: Mariko Okada, Kamoda Kaizō, Kimura Naho, Makita Yoshiaki, Iwasaki Kaneko.
- Kaigenrei = Coup d'état: Mikumi Rentarō, Matsumura Yasuyo, Miyake Yasuo, Kurano Akiko, Kanno Tadahiko.
- エロス＋虐殺 = Eros + massacre: 岡田茉莉子, 細川俊之, 楠侑子, 伊井利子, 原田大二郎.
- 煉獄エロイカ = Heroic purgatory: 岡田茉莉子, 鴨田貝造, 木村菜穂, 牧田吉明, 岩崎加根子.
- 戒厳令 = Coup d'état: 三國連太郎, 松村康世, 三宅康夫, 倉野章子, 菅野忠彦.
- Credits:
- Director, Yoshida Kijū (all 3 films) ; producers, Yoshida Kijū (Eros + massacre, Heroic purgatory), Soshizaki Shinji (Eros + massacre), Okumura Sei (Heroic purgatory), Okada Mariko, Ueno Kōshi, Kuzui Kinshirō (Coup d'état) ; screenwriters, Yamada Masahiro, Yoshida Kijū (Eros + massacre, Heroic purgatory), Betsuyaku Minoru (Coup d'état) ; director of photography, Hasegawa Motokichi (all 3 films) ; editors, Yasuoka Hiroyuki (Eros + massacre, Heroic purgatory), Oka Yoshiki (Coup d'état).
- 監督, 吉田喜重 (all 3 films) ; プロデューサー, 吉田喜重 (エロス＋虐殺, 煉獄エロイカ), 曾志崎信二 (エロス＋虐殺), 岡村精 (煉獄エロイカ), 岡田茉莉子, 上野昂志, 葛井欣士郎 (戒厳令) ; 脚本, 山田正弘, 吉田喜重 (エロス＋虐殺, 煉獄エロイカ), 別役実 (戒厳令) ; 撮影, 長谷川元吉 (all 3 films) ; 編集, 安岡洋之 (エロス＋虐殺, 煉獄エロイカ), 岡芳材 (戒厳令).
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of three motion pictures produced between 1969 and1973.
- Limited edition contents: New high definition digital transfers supervised by Kiju Yoshida -- High definition standard definition DVD presentations for all films -- Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio on all films -- New translated English subtitles on all films -- Yoshida ... or: The Explosion of the Story - a 30-minute documentary on Eros + Massacre with contributions from Yoshida and film critics Mathieu Capel and Jean Douchet -- Introductions to Heroic Purgatory and Coup d'etat by Yoshida -- Newly-filmed discussions of Eros + Massacre, Heroic Purgatory and Coup d'etat by David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave, recorded exclusively for this release -- Scene-select commentaries by David Desser on all three films -- Heroic Purgatory theatrical trailer -- Coup d'etat theatrical trailer -- Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm -- Illustrated 80-page perfect-bound book featuring new writing on the films by David Desser, Isolde Standish (author of Politics, Porn and Protest: Japanese Avant-Garde Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s) and Dick Stegewerns (author of Kiju Yoshida: 50 Years of Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Post-War Japan).
- Issued by the publisher as a DVD/Blu-ray combo edition. University of Pennsylvania Libraries have cataloged the DVDs and the Blu-ray discs as two separate sets, and placed the accompanying booklet with the DVD set.
- Contains:
- Erosu ÿakusatsu = Eros + massacre.
- Rengoku eroika = Heroic purgatory.
- Kaigenrei = Coup d'etat.
- エロス＋虐殺 = Eros + massacre.
- 煉獄エロイカ = Heroic purgatory.
- 戒厳令 = Coup d'etat.
- OCLC:
- 1039888676
- Publisher Number:
- 5027035013121 (boxed set)
- FCD1144 Arrow Academy (set)
- FCD1144-1 Arrow Academy (disc. 1)
- FCD1144-2 Arrow Academy (disc. 2)
- FCD1144-3 Arrow Academy (disc. 3)
- FCD1144-4 Arrow Academy (disc. 4)
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