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1 videodisc (153 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #472
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Title from container; credits from accompanying booklet
Sadako is a typical Imamura heroine: one who revels in the pleasures of food, labor, sex, and self-preservation. Carrying the burden of her status as a lowly, poor, prostitute-birthed commoner wife, Sadako is subjected to an escalating series of belittlement both at home and in society
Based on the story by Shinji Fujiwara
Originally released as a motion picture in 1964
Issued in box set with title: Pigs, pimps & prostitutes : 3 films by Shohei Imamura (Criterion collection ; 471)
Director, Shohei Imamura ; producers, Masayuki Takagi, Jiro Tomoda ; writers, Keiji Hasebe, Shohei Imamura ; cinematographer, Shinsuku Himeda ; editor, Mutsuo Tanji ; music, Toshiro Mayuzumi
Masumi Harukawa, Ko Nishimura, Toshihiko Hino, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Yuko Kusonoki, Ranko Akagi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Kazuo Kitamura, Shoichi Ozawa, Yasuo Itoga, Seiji Miyaguchi, Yoshi Kato, Taiji Tonoyama
DVD; 2.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural
Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles