Directed by: Hiroshi Teshigahara
Year: 1964
Time: 123 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 394
Licensor
Toho Co.
Release Date: Tuesday, 23 August 2016
MSRP: $39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.33:1
Japanese PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles: English
Region A
Video essay on the film from 2007 by film scholar James Quandt
Four short films from director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965)
Teshigahara and Abe, a 2007 documentary examining the collaboration between Teshigahara and novelist Kobo Abe, featuring interviews with film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, film programmer Richard Peña, set designer Arata Isozaki, producer Noriko Nomura, and screenwriter Arata Isozaki
Trailer
An essay by film scholar Audie Bock and a 1980 interview with Teshigahara