The.Lower.Depths.2Disc.BoxSet.D1.Akira.Kurosawa.1957.DVDR.DVD9.CRiTERiON.nfo
DONZOKO (1957)
AKAs:
The Lower Depths (USA)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050330/
Criterion Collection # 239
DISC ONE OF 2-DISC SET 'THE LOWER DEPTHS: TWO STORIES'
http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/487
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Director: Akira Kurosawa
READ:
Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths
by Keiko McDonald & Thomas Rimer
http://www.criterion.com/current/posts/333
Format: NTSC
DVD Size: 7.44 GB - Untouched Copy
Time (main feature): 125 minutes
Color: Black and White
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic
Sound: Japanese Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Subtitles: Optional English
SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
# New high-definition digital transfers of both films, with restored image and sound.
# Audio commentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie (A Hundred Years of Japanese Film).
# A 33-minute documentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others.
# Introduction to Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths by the director.
# Original theatrical trailer for Kurosawa's The Lower Depths.
# New essay by Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader's Guide to Japanese Literature) for the Kurosawa film; new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939, for the Renoir.
# New and improved subtitle translations.
# Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer editions.
Studio: Criterion
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