The Funeral

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Itami, Juzo, film director.

Miyamoto, Nobuko, actor.

Yamazaki, Tsutomu, actor.

The Criterion Collection (Firm), Distributor.

Kanopy (Firm)., Distributor.

Language:

Japanese

Subjects (All):

Foreign films.

Comedy.

Motion pictures.

Genre:

Feature films

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (125 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Place of Publication:

The Criterion Collection 1984

[San Francisco, California, USA] Kanopy Streaming 2023

System Details:

digital

video file MPEG-4 Flash

Summary:

It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Chishu Ryu), and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, THE FUNERAL is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits

Participant:

Nobuko Miyamoto, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Notes:

Vendor supplied data

Film

In Process Record

Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1984

Publisher Number:

14376073 Kanopy

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license