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Mikio Naruse: 3 Disc Box Set

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1955-60 (DVD: 11/07)
Black and white
Japan
Language(s): Japanese
Subtitles: English, English for the hearing impaired on all items
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673006948
Ratio Disc 1: 2.35:1; Discs 2 + 3: 1.33:1
Region 2
Price: £25.99
(Including VAT at 17.5%)
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Mikio Naruse: 3 Disc Box Set 
Naruse, Mikio
The BFI presents three of Mikio Naruse's finest films, now regarded as among world cinema's greatest achievements.
Naruse's films celebrate, without extravagance , the lives of ordinary people struggling for something better than the hand fate has dealt them. Performed with quiet certainty by superb actors, shot and edited with a sure and relentless hand, they raise the ordinary and even the sordid to a quality near sublime. Audie Bock, Artforum

Disc 1: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Onna ga kaidan o agaru toki)

Japan/1960/106 mins/black and white/Japanese language/Ratio: 2.35:1 (16x9) anamorphic
Naruse's magnificent 1960 melodrama. An elegant essay in black and white Cinemascope and tinkling cocktail jazz, this tale of a bar hostess' attempt to escape her lot could give heartbreak lessons to Fassbinder and Sirk. J Hoberman, The Village Voice

Disc 2: Floating Clouds (Ukigumo)

Japan/1955/118 mins/black and white/Japanese language/Ratio:1.33:1
The elegance and indisputable hard punch of Naruses's storytelling become immediately clear the moment the lovers kiss and the director cuts, mid-clinch, to an almost identical shot of them kissing in the past, an edit that suggests this is a passion that transcends even time and space Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Disc 3: Late Chrysanthemums (Bangiku)

Japan/1958/97 mins/black and white/Japanese language/ Ratio: 1.33:1
It is something to see Sugimura counting money, and sticking a wad efficiently into her kimono top. When her heart has been broken one last time by an old lover asking for money, she burns his photograph in a scene of chilling finality. Phillip Lopate, A Taste of Naruse

Extras
Spread over the 3 discs:
* Freda Freiberg, Japanese cinema expert: audio commentaries; video interview with Adrian Martin; essay
* Paul Willeman: video and written essays
* Barnard Eisenschitz: video interview with director Teruo Ishii, Naruse's assistant
* Adrian Martin: new essay
* Theatrical trailer for When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
* Fully illustrated booklet with essays.
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