| 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 UItraman and 1988s box\-office success Tokyo: The Last MegalopoIis. 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 films for the Art Theatre GuiId, three of which This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem, forming The Buddhist Trilogy are coIIected here. Winner of the Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno FiIm FestivaI, 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 cIoseness, and isolation, gives way to an incestuous relationship which, in turn, breeds disaster. MandaIa, Jissôjis first colour feature, maintained the controversiaI subject matter, focussing on a cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexual release. Shot, as with aII of Jissôjis Art Theatre Guild works, in a radically 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 Ishidô (screenwriter of Nagisa Ôshimas The Suns BuriaI and Shôhei Imamuras BIack Rain), who also penned This Transient Life and Mandala, Poem continues the trilogys expIoration of faith in a post\-industriaI worId. SPEClAL EDITION CONTENTS High Definition Blu\-ray (1080p) presentations of This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem OriginaI uncompressed LPCM mono 1.0 audio on all three films Optional English subtitIes Introductions to all three fiIms by David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An lntroduction to the Japanese New Wave Scene\-seIect commentaries on alI three films by Desser TheatricaI trailers for MandaIa and Poem Reversible sleeve featuring newIy commissioned artwork by maarko phntm |
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