The Taisho Trilogy - Zigeunerweisen + Kagero-za + Yumeji 

• 2020 
• Blu 
• Zigeunerweisen 
• Blu-ray 

9581863

DVD / Video / Blu-ray

The Taisho Trilogy - Zigeunerweisen + Kagero-za + Yumeji

Arrow, Arrow Academy

Cinema Placet, Genjiro Amato Pictures

2020

411

3

5027035021584

1.37:1, 1.66:1

In standard synthetic (such as Amaray) case, Special Edition

Interview, Introduction, Making of, Trailer

HAUNTING, HYPNOTIC, FLAMBOYANT, EROTIC, BIZARRE… SUZUKI! After over a decade in the wilderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to Kill (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his critically-praised tryptic of cryptic supernatural dramas set during the liberal enlightenment of Japan's Taisho Era (1912-26). In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games. In Kageroza (1981), a playwright is drawn like a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, while Yumeji (1991) imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji's encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past. Rarely seen outside of Japan, the films in the Taisho Trilogy are considered Suzuki's masterpieces in his homeland. Presenting a dramatic turn from more his familiar tales of cops, gangsters and unruly youth, these surrealistic psychological puzzles drip with a lush exoticism, distinctively capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technologies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese life. Special Features - High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) transfers of all three films - Original uncompressed stereo audio - Optional English subtitles - New introductions to each film by critic Tony Rayns - Making-of featurette - Vintage interview with Seijun Suzuki - Tony Rayns on the Taisho Trilogy, a new appreciation of Suzuki's trilogy - Trailers - Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork choices

Izumi, Kyoka, Tanaka, Yozo, Uchida, Hyakken [naar]

Bandô, Tamasaburô, Harada, Yoshio, Kaga, Mariko, Kiki, Kirin, Makishi, Kisako, Mariya, Tomoko, Maro, Akaji, Matsuda, Yûsaku, Miyazaki, Masumi, Nakamura, Katsuo, Otani, Naoko, Sawada, Kenji, Yasuda, Michiyo

Kawachi, Kaname, Umebayashi, Shigeru