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DVD

1 of 1 Copy Available

  • CENTRAL: Audiovisual Collection
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Ugetsu = Ugetsu monogatari

Call Number

  • DVD FOREIGN (CEN)

Edition

Special ed.

Languages

In Japanese, with optional English subtitles.

Performers

Machiko Kyo, Masayuki Mori, Kinuyo Tanaka, Sakae Ozawa, Mitsuko Mito.

Publication Information

[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2005]

Physical Description

2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (69 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Set in 16th century Japan, a period of bloody civil war, the film is rooted in the postwar psyche of 1950s Japan. It focuses on an ambitious potter haunted by a beautiful ghost and a farmer who dreams of becoming a samurai.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1953.

Special features: new, restored high-definition digital transfer ; audio commentary by critic, filmmaker, and festival programmer Tony Rayns ; Two worlds intertwined, a 14-minute appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda ; Process and production, a 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director of Ugetsu ; ten-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992 ; theatrical trailers ; Kenji Mizoguchi : the life of a film director (1975), a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved English subtitles.

Contents

  • [Disc 1.] Ugetsu (97 min.)
  • [Disc 2.] Kenji Mizoguchi, the life of a film director (150 min.).

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