裸の島 /
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1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert
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DVD release of the 1960 motion picture
The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land
Widescreen (2.35:1)
High-definition digital restoration
Special features: Video introduction by director Kaneto Shindo, recorded for a 2011 retrospective of his work ; audio commentary recorded in 2000, featuring Shindo and composer Hikaru Hayashi ; new appreciation of the film by actor Benicio del Toro ; new interview with film scholar Akira Mizurta Lippit ; trailer ; on insert, essay by film scholar Haden Guest
Director of photography, Kiyomi Kuroda ; editor, Toshio Enoki ; music, Hikaru Hayashi
Otowa Nobuko, Tonoyama Taiji, Tanaka Shinji, Horimoto Masanori
MPAA rating: Not rated
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono
In Japanese, with optional subtitles in English