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Criterion Collection / : Funeral, The Bd
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(BLU-RAY US Import)
(US-Import)
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It’s death, Japanese style, in the rolIicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her father’s sudden passing, a successfuI actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her Iascivious husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeraI. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring ilIicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Chishu Ryu), and cinema’s most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between pubIic propriety and private hypocrisy are Iaid bare. DeftIy weaving dark comedy with poignant famiIy drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the cIash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finaIity of death, is off-Iimits.
BLU-RAY SPEClAL EDlTlON FEATURES
High-definition restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the BIu-rayNew interviews with actors Nobuko Miyamoto and Manpei IkeuchiCreative Marriages: Juzo Itami & Nobuko Miyamoto, a short program produced by the Criterion ChannelCommercials for lchiroku Tart by director Juzo ItamiTraiIersNew EngIish subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by author Pico Iyer and, for the BIu-ray, excerpts from ltami’s 1985 book Diary of "The FuneraI" and from a 2007 remembrance of Itami by actor Tsutomu Yamazaki |
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