| Description |
3 videodiscs (approximately 6 hr., 24 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Series |
The Criterion collection ; 471 |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 471.
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| System Details |
DVD; enhanced for 16x9 televisions (2.35:1); Dolby digital mono. |
| Language |
In Japanese, with optional English subtitles. |
| Cast |
Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsujo Yoshimura, Yōko Minamida, Shiro Osaka. |
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Seizaburo Kawazu, Kazuo Kitamura, Tanie Kitabayashi, Teruko Kishii, Keiko Aizawa, Emiko Aizawa, Sumie Sasaki, Hiroyuki Nagato. |
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Masumi Harukawa, Ko Nishimura, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi. |
| Credits |
Pigs and battleships: produced by Kano Otsuka ; screenplay by Hisashi Yamanouchi ; cinematography by Shinsuki Himeda ; music by Toshiro Mayuzumi. |
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The insect woman: produced by Kano Otsuka and Jiro Tomoda ; screenplay by Keiji Hasebe and Shohei Imamura ; director of photography, Shinsuku Himeda ; directed by Shohei Imamura. |
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Intentions of murder: produced by Masayuki Takagi and Jiro Tomoda ; original story by Shinji Fujiwara ; screenplay by Keiji Hasebe and Shohei Imamura ; cinematography by Shinsuku Himeda ; music by Toshiro Mayuzumi ; edited by Mutsuo Tanji ; directed by Shohei Imamura. |
| Summary |
Pigs and battleships: Portrays postwar Japan throught the power struggles between small-time gangsters in the port town of Yokosuka, where there are American soldiers based. |
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The insect woman: Portrays 45 years in the life of a woman, from her country childhood through the years as a ruthless Tokyo madam and back to her native village. |
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Intentions of murder: Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society. |
| Contents |
[disc 1] Buta to gunkan = Pigs and battleships -- [disc 2] Nippon konchuki = The insect woman -- [disc 3] Akai satsui = Intentions of murder. |
| Note |
Special features: new, restored high definition digital transfers; conversations between Shohei Imamura and critic Tadao Sato about The insect woman and Intentions of murder; "Imamura : the freethinker," a 1995 episode of the French television series Cinéma de notre temps; interviews with critic and historian Tony Rayns; new and improved English subtitle translations; booklets with essays by Audie Bock, Dennis Lim, and James Quandt. |
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For specific features see interactive menu. |
| Subject |
Crime -- Japan -- Yokosuka-shi -- Drama.
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Americans -- Japan -- Yokosuka-shi -- Drama.
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Women -- Japan -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Drama.
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Prostitution -- Japan -- Drama.
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Japan -- Social life and customs -- Drama.
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DVDs.
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| Local Subject |
FOREIGN FILMS (JAPANESE), VIDEODISCS.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Videodiscs.
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| Added Author |
Imamura, Shōhei, 1926-2006, screenwriter, director.
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Nagato, Hiroyuki, actor.
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Yoshimura, Jitsuko, 1943- actor.
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Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009, actor.
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Osaka, Shiro, actor.
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Kawazu, Seizaburo, actor.
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Kitamura, Kazuo, 1927-2007, actor.
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Kitabayashi, Tanie, 1911-2010, actor.
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Kishi, Teruko, actor.
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Aizawa, Keiko, actor.
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Aizawa, Emiko, actor.
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Sasaki, Sumie, actor.
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Harukawa, Masumi, 1935- actor.
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Nishimura, Kō, actor.
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Tsuyuguchi, Shigeru, actor.
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Otsuka, Kano, producer.
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Yamanouchi, Hisashi, 1925- screenwriter.
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Himeda, Shinsaku, 1916-1997, cinematographer.
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Mayuzumi, Toshirō, 1929-1997, musician.
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Tomoda, Jiro, producer.
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Hasebe, Keiji, screenwriter.
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Takagi, Masayuki, 1906-1978, producer.
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Fujiwara, Shinji, 1921-1984.
Akai satsui.
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Janus Films.
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Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha.
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Criterion Collection (Firm)
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| Added Title |
Pigs, pimps, and prostitutes |
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3 films by Shohei Imamura |
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Three films by Shohei Imamura |
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Buta to gunka.
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Nippon konchuki.
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Akai satsui.
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Pigs and battleships.
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The insect woman.
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Intentions of murder.
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| ISBN |
9781604651553 (set) |
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1604651555 (set) |
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9781604651546 (Intentions of murder) |
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1604651547 (Intentions of murder) |
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9781604651539 (The insect woman) |
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1604651539 (The insect woman) |
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9781604651522 (Pigs and battleships) |
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1604651520 (Pigs and battleships) |
| Standard No. |
715515046015 |
| Music No. |
CC1810D Criterion Collection |
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CC1811D Criterion Collection (Pigs and battleships) |
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CC1812D Criterion Collection (The insect woman) |
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CC1813D Criterion Collection (Intentions of murder) |
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