Region: 1 (USA, Canada and US territories)
DVD Format: Keep Case, Widescreen Anamorphic, 2.35:1, Black and White
DVD Features: Subtitles: English, Audio Track 1: , Dolby Digital 3.0, Audio Track 2: , Dolby Digital 1.0
New, high-definition digital transfer
Commentary by Japanese film scholar Donald Richie
New video interview with actor Tatsuya Nakadai
Original theatrical trailer
New and improved subtitle translation
A booklet featuring essays by Audie Bock, Catherine Russell, Phillip Lopate, and Hideko Takamine
(Japan, 1960) Takamine Hideko is a bar hostess in Tokyo's postwar Ginza district trapped by her life and the demands of her family, her work, and debt, in the delicate drama directed by Japanese master Mikio Naruse from a screenplay by longtime Kurosawa collaborator Ryuzo Kikushima. Considered by many to be his finest work. Tatsuya Nakadai co-stars.
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