The Lower Depths

 

Year: 1936 | 1957

Time: 89 | 125 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 239

Release Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2004

MSRP: $39.95

 

DVD

2 Discs

1.33:1

1.33:1

French Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region 1

 

 Audio commentary on Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie (A Hundred Years of Japanese Film)   A 33-minute documentary on Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Akira Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others   Introduction to Jean Renoir’s The Lower Depths by the director   Cast biographies for Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths by Stephen Prince, author of The Warrior’s Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa   Original theatrical trailer for Kurosawa’s The Lower Depths   Booklet: New essay by Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader’s Guide to Japanese Literature) for the Kurosawa film; new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939, for the Renoir