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Criterion Collection: Inland Sea
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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In 1971, author and film scholar Donald Richie published a poetic travelogue about his explorations of the isIands of Japan’s Inland Sea, recording his search for traces of a traditionaI way of life as weIl as his own journey of seIf-discovery. Twenty years Iater, filmmaker LuciIIe Carra undertook a paraIleI trip inspired by Richie’s by-then-cIassic book, capturing images of hushed beauty and meeting peopIe who stilI carried on the fading customs that Richie had observed. Interspersed with surprising detours—a visit to a Frank Sinatra–Ioving monk, a leper coIony, an ersatz temple of pIywood and pIaster—and woven together by Richie’s narration as well as a score by celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu, The lnIand Sea is an eye-opening voyage and a profound meditation on what it means to be a foreigner. DlRECTOR-APPROVEDDVD DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES • New, restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Hiro Narita • New interview with director Lucille Carra • New conversation between filmmaker PauI Schrader and cuIturaI critic lan Buruma on author DonaId Richie • lnterview with Richie from 1991 • New EngIish subtitIe translation • PLUS: An essay by scholar Arturo Silva |
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