Bullets 'n' Babes

Ai no corrida



* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary with film scholar Tony Rayns
* New interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji
* A 1976 interview with director Nagisa Oshima and actors Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, and a 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer, Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai, and film distributor Yoko Asakura
* Deleted footage
* U.S. trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie and a reprinted interview with Oshima
* 108 minutes
* 1.66:1
* Japanese

http://www.criterion.com/films/1287

Ai no borei



* New, restored high-definition digital transfer (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
* New audio commentary with film scholar Tony Rayns
* New interview with actor Tatsuya Fuji
* A 1976 interview with director Nagisa Oshima and actors Fuji and Eiko Matsuda, and a 2003 program featuring interviews with consulting producer Hayao Shibata, line producer, Koji Wakamatsu, assistant director Yoichi Sai, and film distributor Yoko Asakura
* Deleted footage
* U.S. trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie and a reprinted interview with Oshima
* 105 minutes
* 1.66:1
* Japanese

http://www.criterion.com/films/1288

Also coming

Dodes’ka-den



* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, a 36-minute documentary created as part of the Toho Masterworks series, about the making of Dodes’ka-den, including interviews with director Akira Kurosawa, script supervisor Teruyo Nogami, actor Yoshitaka Zushi, and other members of the cast and crew
* Theatrical trailer
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film historian Stephen Prince and a new interview with Nogami
* 144 minutes
* 1.33:1
* Japanese

http://www.criterion.com/films/1083

Thanks for posting. Awesome covers. Let's hope that ItRotS is uncut and uncensored.

Blu-ray releases too thanks, DVD sucks.

Why wouldnt it be uncut? The bBFC cut/censoring wouldnt apply on R1 (I don't think so).

Any masterpieces in there?

The Artificial Eye Wong Kar Wai BDs are out soon. Hopefully a comparison will follow shortly after.

I didnt really take to Ai No Corrida TBH. Thats a beautiful cover though.

grim_tales wrote:Why wouldnt it be uncut? The bBFC cut/censoring wouldnt apply on R1 (I don't think so).

Shit happens. People can stuff up and make mistakes. R1 distributors may setup an exchange program for a fixed version, but that's not an option for importers. Obtaining a fixed version through retail can be a lottery.

Also they there's times where compromises have to be made because there's no other better film materials.

Fair point. Didnt think of that

The only cut made in the UK was to the woman pulling the young boy's winky.

I've seen Ai no corrida when I was a kid. Now I'm interested in seeing it again because of Tatsuya Fuji. He did great job in the Stray Cat Rock series, where he took turns playing good guys and over-the-top villains (villain in parts 1 and 3, good guy in parts 2, 4 and 5). But those were all upbeat pop movies. Ai no corrida is something totally different.

Mark is right.
Didnt Kurosawa make a Russian film at one point?

HungFist wrote:I've seen Ai no corrida when I was a kid.

Serious?

That explains a lot

Looking forward to these anyway. Been on a bit of an early Oshima kick recently. Just saw The Sun's Burial which was great.

Does anyone know, are Criterion's Blu-rays coded Region A or what?

grim_tales wrote:Didnt Kurosawa make a Russian film at one point?

You mean "Dersu Uzala".

eddyospina wrote:

HungFist wrote:I've seen Ai no corrida when I was a kid.

Serious?

yes. It was on TV when I was 13, it seems. Actually, I would've thought I were younger than that when I saw it, but I guess not.

eddyospina wrote: That explains a lot

Oh thank you very much

thelostdragon wrote:

grim_tales wrote:Didnt Kurosawa make a Russian film at one point?

You mean "Dersu Uzala".

Ahhh yeah, thats it I got confused with the title of the film that was shown there

Sry, double post

eddyospina wrote:

HungFist wrote:I've seen Ai no corrida when I was a kid.

Serious?

That explains a lot

Hung Fist also saw "Bounce Ko Gals" as a kid, that explains even more.
Well, I'm the right one to talk *coughs*

eddyospina wrote:Does anyone know, are Criterion's Blu-rays coded Region A or what?

Yes, they're all coded A.

Markgway wrote:
Yes, they're all coded A.

That's annoying. Especially since all their DVDs were always region free (I think). Have to hope someone does a decent uncut B release soon.

eddyospina wrote:That's annoying. Especially since all their DVDs were always region free (I think).

Actually about half of them were coded R1 only.

574 minutes
4 Discs
2.35:1
Japanese

"Masaki Kobayashi’s mammoth humanist drama is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three parts, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition (Ningen no joken), adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji (handsome Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai). Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of its nation’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best."

edit: deleted part of the Criterion product description, as I don't see why they should spoil the first 8 hours of the film...

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Excerpt from a rare Directors Guild of Japan video interview with director Masaki Kobayashi, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide)
* New video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
* Video appreciation of Kobayashi and The Human Condition featuring Shinoda
* Japanese theatrical trailers
* New and improved English subtitle translation
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Philip Kemp

Thanks Michael

9.5 hours?! Bloody hell

Hiya.
Talking of, I don't know if this has been mentioned yet but the reason for the weird English title goes something like this:
when the poster/movie arrived from France (where it's called "L'Empire des sens" i.e. "The Realm Of The Senses"), your man saw:
name of actress / name of actor
in The Realm etc.

...and the distributors concluded that "in" was part of the title!
Sugoi!

I didnt know that, interesting