UID:
kobvindex_ZLB15951805
Format:
1 BD (183 Min. + Bonus)
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Mono
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1 Beil.
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2.35:1 aspect ratio
Edition:
Blu-ray special ed.
ISBN:
1681430584
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection : [BD] 90
Content:
“After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted. This version of Kwaidan is the original three-hour cut, never before released in the United States.“(Covertext Criterion)
Content:
Disc Features: •New 2K digital restoration of director Masaki Kobayashi’s original cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray •New audio commentary by film historian Stephen Prince •Interview with Kobayashi from 1993, conducted by filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda •New interview with assistant director Kiyoshi Ogasawara •New piece about author Lafcadio Hearn, on whose versions of Japanese folktales Kwaidan is based •Trailers •New English subtitle translation •PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien •New cover by Sean Freeman
Note:
Ländercode: A
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Orig.: Japan, 1965
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Bonus: Commentary (features film scholar Stephen Prince); Masaki Kobayashi (conversation between director Kobayashi and filmmaker Masahiro Shinoda about the making of the film in 1993); Kiyoshi Ogasawara (assistant director Ogasawara discusses working with director Kobayashi and the original version of the film); Lafcadio Hearn (English literature scholar Christopher Benfey, profiles Lafcadio Hearn who played a crucial role in popularizing Japanese folklore for Western audiences, his stories providing the basis for the film); Trailers
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Untertitel: engl.
Language:
Japanese
Author information:
Hearn, Lafcadio
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