Collecting Masters of Cinema spine numbers 52 to 59 this new box set features eight films from the late period in Kenji Mizoguchi’s career, the years 1951-1956. Mizoguchi passed away in 1956 and this selection of films represent a wonderful selection of Mizoguchi’s most widely acclaimed work.
Each film is given its own disc and there are four highly detailed booklets offering information and essays on the films. Each film also has an introduction by the respected critic Tony Rayns and an accompanying trailer. The introductions are informative and offer a good introduction to the significance of each film but are perhaps best viewed after the film rather than before (if you have not already seen the film in question) as they tend to reveal a lot of details about the plots.
The transfers are mixed but all impressive considering the difficulty in acquiring pristine prints of some of these films.
Each film is given its own disc and there are four highly detailed booklets offering information and essays on the films. Each film also has an introduction by the respected critic Tony Rayns and an accompanying trailer. The introductions are informative and offer a good introduction to the significance of each film but are perhaps best viewed after the film rather than before (if you have not already seen the film in question) as they tend to reveal a lot of details about the plots.
The transfers are mixed but all impressive considering the difficulty in acquiring pristine prints of some of these films.
- 2/7/2011
- by Craig Skinner
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Japanese cinema isn’t all Takeshi Miike, Battle Royale, Takeshi Kitano and Akira Kurosawa you know. Director Kenji Mizoguchi took a more poetic and no less masterful approach to his work which is being celebrated in an amazing boxset collection released by Eureka’s Masters of Cinema label from 23rd January focusing on the man’s 1950s classic-after-classic output.
We’ve been sent over a press release with details of what films feature and what extra features there are. FilmShaft’s Alex Wagner is a big Mizoguchi fan, so imagine he’s excited by this news! So if you’re a connoisseur of Japanese film or a film student wanting to look good in class by saying something like, “well Mizoguchi’s Street of Shame is largely considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films of the 20th century”, this boxset is definitely for you.
Eureka! have...
We’ve been sent over a press release with details of what films feature and what extra features there are. FilmShaft’s Alex Wagner is a big Mizoguchi fan, so imagine he’s excited by this news! So if you’re a connoisseur of Japanese film or a film student wanting to look good in class by saying something like, “well Mizoguchi’s Street of Shame is largely considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films of the 20th century”, this boxset is definitely for you.
Eureka! have...
- 1/5/2011
- by Martyn Conterio
- FilmShaft.com
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