Chikamatsu monogatari = A story from Chikamatsu / Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon Yoda Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji.
近松物語 = A story from Chikamatsu / 大映株式會社製作 ; 製作永田雅一 ; 脚本依田義賢 ; 監督溝口健二
"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 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 Japanes...
| Uniform Title: | Criterion collection ;
949. |
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| Language: | Japanese English |
| Language of the Original: |
Japanese |
| Language and/or Writing System: |
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles. |
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[New York, N.Y.] :
The Criterion Collection,
[2018]
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| Edition: | DVD special edition. |
| Series: | Criterion collection ;
949. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded-out leaflet (12 unnumbered pages ; illustrations ; 18 cm). |
| Variant Title: |
Story from Chikamatsu [Parallel title]
Crucified lovers |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
"One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 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 delicately delivered indictment of societal oppression was heralded by Akira Kurosawa as a 'great masterpiece that could only be made by Mizoguchi'"--Container. |
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| Note: | Based on the jōruri (bunraku puppet drama) Daikyoji mukashi-goyomi by Monzaemon Chikamatsu, adapted as a play by Matsutaro Kawaguchi. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954. Accompanied by a fold-out leaflet featuring an essay, "From a distance", by film scholar Haden Guest. Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration; New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi: the Auteur Behind the "Metteur en Scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; New English subtitle translation. |
| Call Number: | PN1995.9.M27 C55 2018 VideoDVD |
| Audience: |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
| ISBN: | 9781681435190 1681435195 |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Kanji Suganuma ; music, Fumio Hayasaka. |
| System Details: | DVD, NTSC, region 1; 1.37:1 aspect ratio; 4:3 presentation; Dolby Digital monaural. |
| Cast: |
880-02 Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitaro Shindo, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Chieko Naniwa. |