DVD
The funeral = Osôshiki
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
DVD special edition.
Languages
In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Performers
Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Ôtaki.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2022]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (124 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
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 and her lascivious husband 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, 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."--Container.
Special features: High-definition digital restoration ; new interview with actors Nobuko Miyamoto and Manpei Ikeuchi ; Creative marriages, a short program produced by the Criterion Channel ; commercials for Ichiroku Tart by director Juzo Itami ; trailers ; new English subtitle translation.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.