A story from Chikamatsu = Chikamatsu monogatari

A story from Chikamatsu = Chikamatsu monogatari Chikamatsu monogatari

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DVD - 2018

"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death. Shot in gorgeous, painterly style by master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, this delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kur...osawa as a 'great masterpiece that could only be made by Mizoguchi'"--Container.

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Subjects
Adultery > Japan > Drama.
Social classes > Japan > Drama.
Merchants > Japan > Drama.
Women > Japan > Drama.
Non-consensual non-monogamy.
Non-monogamy.
Japan > Commerce > Drama.
Historical films.
Feature films.
Romance films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Genres
Historical films
Feature films
Romance films
Fiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection [2018]
Language
Japanese
English
Corporate Author
Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), 大映株式会社 (1945-1971)
Corporate Author
Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), 大映株式会社 (1945-1971) (production company)
Other Authors
Kenji Mizoguchi, 1898-1956 (film director), Yoshikata Yoda, 1909-1991 (screenwriter), Matsutarō Kawaguchi, 1899-1985 (film producer), Masaichi Nagata, 1906-1985 (actor), Kazuo Hasegawa, 1908-1984 (-), Kyōko Kagawa, Yōko Minamida, 1933-2009, Eitarō Shindō, 1899-1977, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, 1912-1992, Tatsuya Ishiguro, 1911-1965, Chieko Naniwa, Monzaemon Chikamatsu, 1653-1725
Edition
DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
Item Description
Based on the jōruri (bunraku puppet drama) Daikyoji mukashi-goyomi by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.
Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi: the Auteur Behind the "Metteur en Scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; New English subtitle translation; on insert, an essay by film scholar Haden Guest.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
Playing Time
01:42:00
Format
DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; 4:3 presentation; Dolby Digital monaural.
Audience
MPAA rating: Not rated.
Production Credits
Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Kanji Suganuma ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
ISBN
9781681435190
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

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