Chikamatsu monogatari = Story from Chikamatsu
近松物語 = Story from Chikamatsu
- Responsibility
- Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha seisaku ; seisaku Nagata Masaichi ; kyakuhon Yoda Yoshikata ; kantoku Mizoguchi Kenji = Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; adapted as a play by Matsutaro Kawaguchi ; screenplay by Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi.
- 近松物語 = Story from Chikamatsu / 大映株式會社製作 ; 製作永田雅一 ; 脚本依田義賢 ; 監督溝口健二 = Daiei production ; produced by Masaichi Nagata ; adapted as a play by Matsutaro Kawaguchi ; screenplay by Yoshitaka Yoda ; directed by Kenji Mizoguchi..
- Language
- Japanese, English. Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.
- Sound
- digital.optical.mono.Dolby digital.
- Video
- NTSC.
- Digital
- video file.DVD video.region 1.
- Edition
- Special edition.
- Publication
- [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2018]
- Physical description
- 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
- Series
- Criterion collection ; 949.
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| Call number | Status |
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| ZDVD 43792 |
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Description
Creators/Contributors
- Contributor
- Mizoguchi, Kenji, 1898-1956, film director.
- Yoda, Yoshikata, 1909-1991, screenwriter.
- Kawaguchi, Matsutarō, 1899-1985, screenwriter.
- Nagata, Masaichi, 1906-1985, film producer.
- Hasegawa, Kazuo, 1908-1984 actor.
- Kagawa, Kyōko, actor.
- Minamida, Yōko, 1933-2009 actor.
- Shindō, Eitarō, 1899-1977 actor.
- Ozawa, Sakae, actor.
- Sugai, Ichiro, actor.
- Tanaka, Haruo, 1912-1992, actor.
- Ishiguro, Tatsuya, 1911-1965, actor.
- Naniwa, Chieko, actor.
- Miyagawa, Kazuo, 1908-1999, director of photography.
- Hayasaka, Fumio, 1914-1955, composer (expression)
- Daiei Kabushiki Kaisha (1945-1971), production company.
- Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Contents/Summary
- Summary
- "An 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.
Subjects
- Subject
- Adultery > Japan > Drama.
- Social classes > Japan > Drama.
- Japan > Commerce > Drama.
- Married people > Japan > Drama.
- Merchants > Japan > Drama.
- Women > Japan > Drama.
- Genre
- Romance films.
- Historical films.
- Film adaptations.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Japanese language films.
- Foreign language films > Japanese.
- Local subject
- Japanese DVD and Blu-ray Collection.
Bibliographic information
- Release date
- 2018
- Production date
- 1954
- Title Variation
- Story from Chikamatsu
- Also known as: Crucified lovers
- Medium
- 4 3/4 in.
- Series
- Criterion collection ; 949
- Note
- Based on a jōruri (bunraku puppet drama) by Monzaemon Chikamatsu.
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1954.
- Title and credits in Japanese; English title and credits taken from English subtitles.
- Full screen (1.37:1).
- Special edition features: New 4K digital restoration; new interview with actor Kyoko Kagawa; Mizoguchi: the auteur behind the "Metteur en scène," a new illustrated audio essay by film scholar Dudley Andrew; new English subtitle translation; essay by film scholar Haden Guest.
- Production Credits
- Cinematographer, Kazuo Miyagawa ; music, Fumio Hayasaka.
- Participant
- Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyoko Kagawa, Yoko Minamida, Eitaro Shindo, Sakae Ozawa, Ichiro Sugai, Haruo Tanaka, Tatsuya Ishiguro, Chieko Naniwa.
- 長谷川一夫, 香川京子, 南田洋子, 進藤英太郎, 小沢栄, 菅井一郎, 田中春男, 石黒達也, 浪花千栄子.
- Audience
- MPAA rating: Not rated.
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; monaural, Dolby digital ; fullscreen (1.37:1 aspect ratio).
- Related Work
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): Chikamatsu, Monzaemon, 1653-1725. Daikyōji mukashigoyomi.
- Motion picture adaptation of (work): 近松門左衛門, 1653-1725. 大経師昔暦.
- ISBN
- 9781681435190
- 1681435195
- Publisher Number
- CC2962D The Criterion Collection
- CC2962DDVD The Criterion Collection
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