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Toho Co.
Directed by: Sadao Yamanaka
Featuring: Denjiro Okochi, Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kunitaro Sawamura, Kanemon Nakamura, Reizaburo Yamamoto, Shizue Yamagishi, Tsuruzo Nakamura, Minoru Takase, Setsuko Hara, Choemon Bando, Soji Kiyokawa, Sukezo Sukedakaya, Ranko Hanai, Emitaro Ichikawa, Noboru Kiritachi, Daisuke Kato
The brief but prodigious career of Japanese director Sadao Yamanaka resulted in a catalogue of work characterised by an elegant and unforced visual style, fluid editing, and a beautiful attention to naturalistic performances. Although he made 22 films over a six - year period (before dying of dysentery in a Japanese Imperial Army outpost in Manchuria at the age of 28), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in the West.
Tange Sazen: The Million Ry ô Pot is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one - eyed, one - armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure. In K ôchiyama S ôshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century.
The Masters of Cinema Series is delighted to present these treasures of world cinema in a long - awaited two - disc DVD set, including rarely - seen fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films.
Tange Sazen: The Million Ry ô Pot is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one - eyed, one - armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure. In K ôchiyama S ôshun, a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of an increasingly complex and troublesome set of circumstances. His last film, Humanity and Paper Balloons, is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century.
The Masters of Cinema Series is delighted to present these treasures of world cinema in a long - awaited two - disc DVD set, including rarely - seen fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films.
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Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
Year: 1935
Time: 92
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
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Priest of Darkness
Year: 1936
Time: 82
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
Streaming Options
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Humanity & Paper Balloons
Year: 1937
Time: 86
Aspect Ratios
1.33:1
Audio
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
Streaming Options
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Technical Specifications
Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
2 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 2.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Deleted Scenes, Film Excerpt, Interview, Booklet
- A special extended scene for Tange Sazen: The Million Ryo Pot
- Surviving fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films: Genta of the Shore: The Longsword of Dakine and The White-Hooded Thief
- New and exclusive video piece featuring critic and scholar Tony Rayns discussing Yamanaka's work
- A 44-PAGE BOOKLET containing writing by Sadao Yamanaka, Shinji Aoyama, and Kimitoshi Sato, alongside a newly revised essay on Yamanaka by Tony Rayns and rare archival imagery
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