Description |
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. |
Physical Medium |
DVD video 4 3/4 in. rda |
Description |
digital optical mono Dolby digital rda |
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DVD-video NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 rda |
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Motion picture. |
Series |
Criterion collection ; 811. |
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Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 811.
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System Details |
DVD ; widescreen (2.35:1) presentation ; Dolby digital mono. |
Language |
In Japanese, with optional subtitles in English. |
Note |
Title from container. |
Cast |
Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka. |
Credits |
Director of photography, Kiyomi Kuroda ; editor, Toshio Enoki ; music, Hikaru Hayashi. |
Note |
DVD release of the 1960 motion picture. |
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Widescreen (2.35:1). |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Not rated. |
Summary |
The international breakthrough for one of Japan's most innovative filmmakers, who went on to make such other marvelous movies as Onibaba and Kuroneko. It follows a family whose home is on a tiny, remote island off the coast of Japan. They must row a great distance to another shore, collect water from a well in buckets, and row back to their island, a nearly backbreaking task essential for the survival of these people and their land. |
Note |
Special features: Video introduction by director Kaneto Shindo, recorded for a 2011 retrospective of his work ; audio commentary recorded in 2000, featuring Shindo and composer Hikaru Hayashi ; new appreciation of the film by actor Benicio del Toro ; new interview with film scholar Akira Mizurta Lippit ; trailer ; essay by film scholar Haden Guest. |
Subject |
Farmers -- Japan -- Drama.
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Rural families -- Japan -- Drama.
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Archipelagoes -- Agriculture -- Japan -- Drama.
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Foreign films -- Japan.
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Motion pictures, Japanese.
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Inland Sea (Japan) -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Feature films.
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Fiction films.
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Added Author |
ShindÅ, Kaneto, 1912-2012, film director, screenwriter.
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Otowa, Nobuko, 1925-1994, actor.
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Tonoyama, Taiji, 1915-1989, actor.
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Tanaka, Shinji, actor.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
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Note |
Original title: Hadaka no shima |
ISBN |
9781681431512 |
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1681431513 |
Standard No. |
715515177016 |
Music No. |
CC2624DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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