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The Criterion Collection releases
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
* 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
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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.grim_tales wrote:Why wouldnt it be uncut? The bBFC cut/censoring wouldnt apply on R1 (I don't think so).
Also they there's times where compromises have to be made because there's no other better film materials.
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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.
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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:Serious?HungFist wrote:I've seen Ai no corrida when I was a kid.
Oh thank you very mucheddyospina wrote: That explains a lot
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The Human Condition from Criterion
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
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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!
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!
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