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ryannichols7 wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:26 pm I've yet to see this, but I really like the cover art. it's colorful and enticing, but in a way that feels very different from the director's work that I've seen to date

really hope Radiance can keep up the Suzuki. I feel like he hasn't nearly gotten his due on home media, but they're very much trying to change that

ryannichols7 wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:26 pm I've yet to see this, but I really like the cover art. it's colorful and enticing, but in a way that feels very different from the director's work that I've seen to date

really hope Radiance can keep up the Suzuki. I feel like he hasn't nearly gotten his due on home media, but they're very much trying to change that

feihong wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:32 am I wish people would go back to calling it Capone Cries Hard, which is a funnier title to me, and doesn't have that feel of being only cursorily transliterated. But I think both recent books, the Yacavone and the Carroll book now translate it as "Capone Cries a Lot." I don't know quite how to put it...it just sounds kind of infantilizing. I'm not intending to criticize you, beamish14, not at all; just this prevailing trend I don't get.

But yes, I wish more people could see Capone Cries Hard, or whatever they end up calling it. An unusual out-and-out comedy from Suzuki––though I remember reading somewhere that it was essentially Takeo Kimura's project he had written for another director, and that Kimura suggested Suzuki only when the other director couldn't do the project anymore. That could explain why it feels so different from other Suzuki movies. At the screening I went to, people were rolling in the aisles. And the view of America the film presents is really fascinating.

beamish14 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 5:58 am I don’t remember many people seeing this or Tale of Sorrow at all when the Japan Society’s beautiful prints played at the Hammer Museum. I’m so glad that the materials for most of his works seem to be in great shape

rapta wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 1:47 am

ryannichols7 wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2025 9:26 pm I've yet to see this, but I really like the cover art. it's colorful and enticing, but in a way that feels very different from the director's work that I've seen to date

really hope Radiance can keep up the Suzuki. I feel like he hasn't nearly gotten his due on home media, but they're very much trying to change that

I feel like he has been well represented when Fran was at Arrow - Branded to Kill, Voice Without a Shadow (Nikkatsu Diamond Guys Vol. 1), The Taisho Trilogy, Seijun Suzuki: The Early Years Vol. 1 & 2, Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell, Bastards! - but those Early Years sets went OOP and weren't reissued (I luckily managed to get Vol. 2 when it was still in print, missing out on the first one). Criterion have only released Tokyo Drifter obviously, and MoC at least did Youth of the Beast, so now it seems to have fallen on Radiance to fill in the gaps.

I do wonder if they'll release one or two under their World Noir sets (e.g. Take Aim at the Police Van, Everything Goes Wrong), but if we're talking individual titles I'd be mostly excited for things like Fighting Elegy, Carmen from Kawachi and Kanto Wanderer (though I wouldn't mind upgrading my DVD of The Flower and the Angry Waves either). Sad to hear that Pistol Opera isn't currently possible, and I'm going to assume Princess Raccoon is in a similar state.

PS: Supposedly Criterion have the rights to Gate of Flesh and Story of a Prostitute, so there's a chance they could look to get Carmen from Kawachi to complete the 'Flesh Trilogy'. No idea if that's actually going to happen though, Criterion being Criterion.

colinr0380 wrote: Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:01 pmMedia Blasters
They put out 2001's Pistol Opera on DVD. Did that ever come out on disc in the UK?