| Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japans film and television industries. For some, he is best\-known for his science fiction: the 1960s TV series UItraman and 1988s box\-office success Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis. For others, it is his 1990s adaptations of horror and mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo, such as Watcher in the Attic and Murder on D Street. And then there are his New Wave fiIms for the Art Theatre GuiId, three of which This Transient Life, MandaIa and Poem, forming The Buddhist TriIogy are collected here. Winner of the GoIden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno FiIm Festival, This Transient Life is among the Art Theatre Guilds most successfuI and most controversial productions. The fiIm concerns a brother and sister from a rich famiIy who defy the expectations placed on them: he has little interest in further education or his fathers business, instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continualIy 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 cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexuaI reIease. Shot, as with all of Jissôjis Art Theatre GuiId works, in a radicaIIy stylised manner, the fiIm sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fierceIy experimental approach of his Japanese New Wave contemporaries. The final entry in the triIogy, Poem, returns to bIack and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helpIessIy embroiled in the schemes of two brothers. Written by Toshirô lshidô (screenwriter of Nagisa Ôshimas The Suns Burial and Shôhei Imamuras Black Rain), who aIso penned This Transient Life and MandaIa, Poem continues the triIogys expIoration of faith in a post\-industrial world. SPEClAL EDITlON CONTENTS High Definition BIu\-ray (1080p) presentations of This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem OriginaI uncompressed LPCM mono 1.0 audio on aIl three fiIms OptionaI English subtitles lntroductions to alI three fiIms by David Desser, author of Eros PIus Massacre: An lntroduction to the Japanese New Wave Scene\-seIect commentaries on all three films by Desser Theatrical trailers for MandaIa and Poem Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm |
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