The Criterion Collection
Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Year: 1962 | 1964 | 1966
Time: 97 | 123 | 124 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 392
Release Date: Tuesday, 10 July 2007
MSRP: $79.95
4 Discs
1.33:1
1.33:1
1.33:1
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
Theatrical trailer
Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
Trailer
Video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt
Theatrical trailer
Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter Arata Isozaki
A booklet featuring essays by James Quandt, Howard Hampton, Audie Bock, and Peter Grilli and Max Tessier’s 1964 interview with Hiroshi Teshigahara