New on Blu-ray: SEIJUN SUZUKI'S THE TAISHO TRILOGY (1980-1991)

Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1, 1.34:1, 1.33:1
Region: Region A/1

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Product Description: After over a decade in the wilderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for Branded to Kill (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with his critically-praised tryptic of cryptic supernatural dramas set during the liberal enlightenment of Japan s Taisho Era (1912-26).

In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning Zigeunerweisen (1980), two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games. In Kageroza (1981), a playwright is drawn like a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, while Yumeji (1991) imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Rarely seen outside of Japan, the films in the Taisho Trilogy are considered Suzuki s masterpieces in his homeland. Presenting a dramatic turn from more his familiar tales of cops, gangsters and unruly youth, these surrealistic psychological puzzles drip with a lush exoticism, distinctively capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technologies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese life.

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Director: Seijun Suzuki

Starring: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Yasuda, Kenji Sawada

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery

Runtime: 412 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: Arrow Video

Home Video Release Date: April 28, 2020