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Intentions of murder

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Special ed. ; Widescreen ed.

Languages

Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.

Performers

Masumi Harukawa, Ko Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yuko Kusonoki, Ranko Akagi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kazuo Kitamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Yasuo Itoga, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshi Kato, Taiji Tonoyama.

Publication Information

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (153 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (12 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

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.

Notes

Originally released as a motion picture in 1964.

Based on the story by Shinji Fujiwara.

Issued in box 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.

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