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04 December 2006 |
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Mikio Naruse (1905-1969) is one of Japan's early masters of cinema, alongside Yasujiro OZU, Kenji MIZOGUCHI, and Akira KUROSAWA (an ardent fan of Naruse and his former assistant). A multiple award-winner, a regular box office hit in Japan, and the first Japanese director to be reviewed in the West (more than a decade before Kurosawa's Rashomon), he remains relatively unknown outside his native country. Yet Naruse has created some of the most moving and beautiful films to emerge from Japan, depicting the lives of common people, with a particular concern for the emotional complexities associated with women. His happiness despite its seeming impossibility.
The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present three of Naruse's most famous films from the 1950s - Repast (1951), the director's personal favourite Sound of the Mountain (1954), and Flowing (1956) - for the first time on DVD in this country, offering an opportunity to rediscover Naruse's distinctive world of lyrical stoicism, measured melancholy, and the haunting sorrows of the everyday.
Special Features
- New progressive transfer from a brand-new Toho film restoration.
- Illustrated audio discussion with Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate.
- New and improved optional English subtitles.
- A 184-page book featuring the writing of Audie Bock, Phillip Lopate, and Catheri
