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Ugetsu, Janus Films ; a Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; screenplay by Matsutaro Kawaguchi, Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi

Region 1; NTSC; Dolby Digital, monoOriginally released as a motion picture in 1953Aspect ratio 1.33:1Special features: Disc 1. New restored high-definition digital transfer; audio commentary by critic, filmmaker and festival programmer Tony Rayns; Process and production, a 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director of Ugetsu; 10-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992; theatrical trailers; new and improved English subtitles -- Disc 2. Kenji Mizoguchi: the life of a film director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved English subtitlesAccompanying booklet features an essay by film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film: "The house in the thicket" and "A serpent's lust" by Akinara Ueda from his book "Ugetsu monogatari" and "How he got the Legion of Honor" by Guy de Maupassant

black and white

monaural

Cinematography, Kazuo Miyagawa; art direction, Kisaku Ito; music, Fumio Hayasaka

other

Special ed.

9781681432755

videodisc

Machiko Kyo, Kinuyo Tanaka, Mitsuko Mito, Masayuki Mori, Sakae Ozawa

2 videodiscs (97 min.), sound, black and white, 4 3/4 in. +, 1 booklet (69 pages : illustrations).

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)757679008

DVD

715515194617

UGE020 -- Criterion Collection

DVD