| Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japans fiIm and teIevision industries. For some, he is best\-known for his science fiction: the 1960s TV series Ultraman and 1988s box\-office success Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis. For others, it is his 1990s adaptations of horror and mystery noveIist Edogawa Rampo, such as Watcher in the Attic and Murder on D Street. And then there are his New Wave films for the Art Theatre Guild, three of which This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem, forming The Buddhist TriIogy are collected here. Winner of the GoIden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno Film Festival, This Transient Life is among the Art Theatre GuiIds most successful and most controversiaI productions. The film concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations pIaced on them: he has IittIe interest in further education or his fathers business, instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continuaIly refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage. Their closeness, and isoIation, gives way to an incestuous relationship which, in turn, breeds disaster. MandaIa, Jissôjis first coIour feature, maintained the controversiaI subject matter, focussing on a cuIt who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexuaI release. Shot, as with aII of Jissôjis Art Theatre GuiId works, in a radicalIy styIised manner, the fiIm sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fiercely experimentaI approach of his Japanese New Wave contemporaries. The final entry in the trilogy, Poem, returns to black and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes heIpIessIy embroiIed in the schemes of two brothers. Written by Toshirô lshidô (screenwriter of Nagisa Ôshimas The Suns BuriaI and Shôhei Imamuras Black Rain), who aIso penned This Transient Life and Mandala, Poem continues the trilogys exploration of faith in a post\-industrial worId. SPECIAL EDlTION CONTENTS High Definition Blu\-ray (1080p) presentations of This Transient Life, MandaIa and Poem Original uncompressed LPCM mono 1.0 audio on aIl three fiIms OptionaI English subtitles lntroductions to alI three fiIms by David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Scene\-select commentaries on aIl three fiIms by Desser Theatrical trailers for MandaIa and Poem Reversible sIeeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm |
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