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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
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Title and credits in Japanese; English title and credits taken from English subtitles
"[A]n exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his apprentice after each is unfairly accused of wrongdoing. Bound by fate in an illicit, star-crossed romance, they go on the run in search of refuge from the punishment prescribed them: death."--Container
Based on the puppet play Daikyoji mukashi-goyomi by Monzaemon Chikamatsu
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954
1.37:1 aspect ratio
Special features: New interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi: the auteur behind the "Metteur-en-scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; essay by film scholar Haden Guest
Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; editor, Kanji Suganuma ; music, Fumio Hayasaka
Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitaro Shindo, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Chieko Naniwa
MPAA rating: Not rated
Blu-ray; region A; 1.35:1 aspect ratio; monaural; requires Blu-ray player
Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles