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Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara [DVD]
Title:
Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara [DVD]
JLCTITLE245:
[DVD] / Janus Films ; Toho ; Sogetsu Foundation.
Edition:
Special ed.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
Physical Description:
4 videodiscs (521 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (61 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
ISBN:
9781934121672
9781934121412
9781934121429
9781934121436
9781934121443
Series:
General Note:
Title from container.
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.
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.
Abstract:
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.
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.
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.
Added Author:
Added Corporate Author:
Added Title Contained Works:
[Otoshiana].
Suna no onna.
[Tanin no kao].
Pitfall.
Woman in the dunes.
Face of another.
Supplements to Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara.
Variant Title:
Pitfall ; Woman in the dunes ; The face of another : three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara
Contents:
[Disc 1]: Pitfall / Teshigahara Productions ; a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; story, Kobo Abe ; producer, Tadashi Ono (97 min. : b&w) -- [Disc 2]: Woman in the dunes / Teshigahara Productions ; a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; director, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; story from the novel by Kobo Abe ; producers, Kiichi Ichikawa, Tadashi Ono (148 min. : b&w) -- [Disc 3]: The face of another / Teshigahara Productions ; a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara ; director/producer, Hiroshi Teshigahara ; story from the novel by Kobo Abe (124 min. : b&w) -- [Disc 4]: The supplements to Three films by Hiroshi Teshigahara (152 min. : col. and b&w).
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.
Performer:
Pitfall: Hisashi Igawa, Kunie Tanaka, Hideo Kanze, Kazuo Miyahara, Sumie Sasaki, Kanichi Omiya, Kei Sato, Sen Yano, Ton Shimada, Shigeru Matsuo, Kikuo Kaneuchi.
Woman in the dunes: Eiji Okada, Kyoko Kishida.
The face of another: Tatsuya Nakadai, Machiko Kyo, Mikijiro Hira, Kyoko Kishida, Miki Irie, Eiji Okada, Minoru Chiaki, Hideo Kanze, Kunie Tanaka, Bibari Maeda, Etsuko Ichihara, Yoshie Minami.
Technical Details:
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.
Language:
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.