Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: AA057
- Format: Blu-ray
- UPC: 760137334880
- Street Date: 04/28/20
- PreBook Date: 03/10/20
- Label: Arrow Academy »
- Genre: Mystery/Thriller
- Run Time: 411 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 1980
- Region Code: A
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: US
- Language: Japanese
Product Assets
Seijun Suzuki's The Taisho Trilogy
- List Price: $49.95
- Your Price: $49.95
- In Stock: 131
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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.
Bonus Materials
- 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
