Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, 2011.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (439 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN
9781604654677, 1604654678, 9781604654684, 1604654686, 9781604654691, 1604654694, 9781604654707, 1604654708, 9781604654714, 1604654716, 9781604654721, 1604654724
Notes
General Note
Title from container.
General Note
Black sun, The warped ones, and Intimidation are in black and white; I hate but love is in color, Thirst for love is in color and black and white.
Creation/Production Credits
Intimidation: screenplay, Osamu Kawase ; producer, Ryoji Motegi ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Masaru Sato ; cinematography, Yoshihiro Yamazaki.
Creation/Production Credits
The warped ones: screenplay, Nobuo Yamada ; producer, Takeshi Yamamoto ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi ; cinematography, Yoshio Mamiya.
Creation/Production Credits
I hate but love: screenplay, Nabuo Yamada ; producer, Takiko Mizunoe ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi ; cinematography, Yoshio Mamiya.
Creation/Production Credits
Black sun: screenplay, Nobuyo Yamada ; producers, Kano Otsuka, Keinosuke Kubo ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi ; cinematography, Mitsuji Kanau.
Creation/Production Credits
Thirst for love: screenplay, Shigeo Fujita, Koreyoshi Kurahara ; producer, Kazu Otsuka ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi ; cinematography, Yoshio Mamiya.
Participants/Performers
Intimidation: Nobuo Kaneko, Mari Shiraki, Akira Nishimura, Kojiro Kusanagi, Zenji Yamada, Jun Hamamura, Yoko Kozono.
Participants/Performers
The warped ones: Tamio Kawachi ; Eiji Go ; Hiroyuki Nagato ; Kojiro Kusanagi ; Noriko Matsumoto ; Yuko Chishiro ; Reiko Arai ; Yoko Kozono.
Participants/Performers
I hate but love: Yujiro Ishihara, Ruriko Asaoka, Hiroyuki Nagato, Izumi Ashikawa, Tamio Kawachi, Asao Koike, Kojiro Kusanagi, Asao Sano.
Participants/Performers
Black sun: Tamio Kawachi, Chico Roland, Yuko Chishiro, Tatsuya Fuji, Shogen Nitta, Zenji Yamada, Hideji Otaki.
Participants/Performers
Thirst for love: Ruriko Asaoka, Nobuo Nakamura, Tetsuo Ishidate, Akira Yamauchi, Chitose Kurenai, Yuko Kusunoki, Yoko Kozono.
Description
A collection of five films by Japanese director Koreyoshi Kurahara.
Description
Intimidation: Sinister blackmail, a daring heist, and two bank coworkers at odds; Kurahara's noir seethes with tension.
Description
The warped ones: Akira, possibly the most reckless youth in film history, tears up Tokyo in this frenetically shot and edited jazz-scored trip to hell.
Description
I hate but love: Tired of life in the public eye, a celebrity leaves the city for a faraway village, but the love interest manager and reporters on his trail ensure that escape is not so simple.
Description
Black sun: A jazz-loving Japanese youth and an AWOL African American GI evade Tokyo authorities in Kurahara's madcap tale about insiders.
Description
Thirst for love: This gripping hothouse drama about a young widow's twisted relationship with the wealthy family of her late husband is a tour de force adaptation of a novel by Yukio Mishima.
System Details
DVD; Dolby digital mono.; region 1, NTSC.
Language
Soundtrack in Japanese; subtitles in English.