Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara / Janus Films ; Toho ; Sogetsu Foundation.
Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inesc...
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| Format: | DVD/Blu-Ray |
| Language: | Japanese |
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[Irvington, N.Y.] :
Criterion Collection,
2007.
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| Edition: | Special ed. |
| Series: | Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ;
392-395. |
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| Online Access: | Click here to view full credits at IMDb.com Click here to view full credits at IMDb.com Click here to view full credits at IMDb.com |
| Summary: | Pitfall: When a miner leaves his employer and treks out with his young son to become a migrant worker, he finds himself moving from one eerie landscape to another, intermittently followed (and photographed) by an enigmatic man in a clean, white suit, and eventually coming face-to-face with his inescapable destiny. Woman in the dunes: An amateur entomologist leaves Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle that resides in a remote, vast desert. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night in the home of a young widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a sand dune. The face of another: Okuyama, after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations. |
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| Item Description: | Title from container. Pitfall originally released as a motion picture in 1962 ; Woman in the dunes originally released as a motion picture in 1964 ; The face of another originally released as a motion picture in 1966. Special features: [Discs 1-3]: New, restored high-definition digital transfer; video essay on the film by critic and festival programmer James Quandt; theatrical trailer ; [Disc 4]: New documentary "Teshigahara and Abe" which includes exclusive video interviews with film programmer and professor Richard Peña, Japanese-film scholars Donald Richie and Tadao Sato, set designer Arata Isozaki, screenwriter John Nathan, and producer Noriko Nomura; four short films from Teshigahara's early career: Hokusai (1953), Ikebana (1956), Tokyo 1958 (1958), and Ako (1965) ; plus, a booklet featuring essays by Peter Grilli, Howard Hampton, Audie Bock, and James Quandt, as well as a Max Tessier interview with Teshigahara. Cover title. |
| Physical Description: | 4 videodiscs (521 min.) : sound, black and white and colour ; 12 cm + 1 booklet (61 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) Complete credits available at IMDb.com. |
| Format: | Pitfall, Woman in the dunes, The face of another: DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC. The supplements: DVD, region 1, widescreen (16:9 enhanced) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., NTSC. |
| Audience: | Censorship classification (NZ): Pitfall - R16 violence and sexual coercion, woman in the dunes - M adult themes; The face of another - M violence and horror. |
| Production Credits: | Pitfall: Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; editor, Fusako Morimichi. Woman in the dunes: Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; art directors, Totetsu Hirakawa, Masao Yamazaki ; editor, Fusako Shuzui ; original music, Toru Takemitsu. The face of another: Cinematographer, Hiroshi Segawa ; art directors, Arata Isozaki, Masao Yamazaki ; editor, Yoshi Sughihara ; original music, Toru Takemitsu. |
| ISBN: | 1934121673 (set) 9781934121672 (set) 193412141X [disc 1] 9781934121412 [disc 1] 1934121428 [disc 2] 9781934121429 [disc 2] 1934121436 [disc 3] 9781934121436 [disc 3] 1934121444 [disc 4] 9781934121443 [disc 4] |