This release can only be found in the following box set: Late Mizoguchi - Eight Films 1951-1956
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Kadokawa Herald Pictures
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
Featuring: Machiko Kyo, Aiko Mimasu, Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Kogure, Yasuko Kawakami, Eitarô Shindô, Kenji Sugawara, Bontaro Miake, Toranosuke Ogawa
Akasen chitai (1956), aka Street of Shame, is Mizoguchi's final masterpiece and one of the greatest last films ever made, depicting the goings-on in a Tokyo brothel carrying the name "Dreamland, " where dreams are nevertheless shattered beneath the weight of financial necessity and all questions of conscience - a last testament which inspired the great French critic Jean Douchet to proclaim: "For me, along with Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux and Renoir's La Règle du jeu, the greatest film in the history of the cinema. "
Yokihi (1955), aka The Princess Yang Kwei-fei, recounts an 8th-century Chinese story of a widowed emperor and his imperial concubine, filmed in sumptuous, hallucinatory Agfa-stock colour.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
B (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Japanese DTS-HD MA Surround 2.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Interview, Theatrical Trailer, Feature Film
- Mizoguchi's Yokihi [Princess Yang Kwei-fei] (also in 1080p on the Blu-ray)
- Tony Rayns on Akasen Chitai
- Tony Rayns on Yokihi
- Original trailer for Yokihi
- Feature commentary for Akasen Chitai by Tony Rayns
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