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Kadokawa Herald Pictures
Directed by: Kenji Mizoguchi
Featuring: Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitarô Shindô, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sagai, Haruo Tanaka, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Chieko Naniwa
One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the early 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 subtly sensuous indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a “great masterpiece that could only have been made by Mizoguchi.”
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37:1
Audio Options:
Japanese PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Interview, Video Essay, Theatrical Trailer, Insert
- New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa
- Mizoguchi: The Auteur Behind the “Metteur-en-scène,” a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew
- Trailer
- An essay by film scholar Haden Guest
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