Rent The Complete (Existing) Films of Sadao Yamanaka (1937)

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Synopsis:
The brief but prodigious career of Japanese director Sadao Yamanaka resulted in a catalogue of work characterised by an elegant and unforced visual style, fluid editing, and a beautiful attention to naturalistic performances. Although he made 27 films over a six-year period (before dying on the frontline of WWII aged 29), only three of them survive, collected here for the first time in the West.

Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935) is a gloriously comic adventure yarn as the titular one-eyed, one-armed swordsman becomes embroiled in the hunt for a missing pot that points the way to hidden treasure.

In Priest of Darkness (1936), a subversively humanistic adaptation of a classic kabuki play, a small but invaluable knife stolen from a samurai leads to a chain of increasingly complex and troublesome circumstances.

Yamanaka's last film, Humanity and Payer Balloons (1937), is an unsparing ensemble drama set among the lowest rungs of Japanese society in the 18th century.
Actors:
Akira Mimura, , Kiyozo, , Reisaburô Yamamoto, Minoru Takase, , , , , , , , , , , Nuboru Kiritachi, , Hiroshi Sawamura,
Directors:
Producers:
Masanobu Takeyama
Writers:
Shintarô Mimura, Sadao Yamanaka, Mokuami Kawatake
Studio:
Eureka
Genres:
Comedy, Drama
Countries:
Japan
BBFC:
Release Date:
20/05/2013
Run Time:
260 minutes
Languages:
Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles:
English
DVD Regions:
Region 2
Formats:
Pal
Aspect Ratio:
Full Screen 1.37:1
Colour:
B & W
Bonus:
  • A special extended scene for Tange Sazen: The Million Ryo Pot
  • Surviving fragments of two other lost Yamanaka films: Genta of the Shore: The Longsword ofDakine and The White-Hooded Thief
  • New and exclusive video piece featuring critic and scholar Tony Rayns discussing Yamanaka's work

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