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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

New on Blu-ray: A FUGITIVE FROM THE PAST / STRAITS OF HUNGER / KIGA KAIKYO (1965)

A Fugitive From The Past 1965 New On Bluray


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Product Description: Considered the magnum opus of the five decades-long career of Tomu Uchida (Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji, The Mad Fox), the epic crime drama A Fugitive from the Past was voted third in the prestigious Kinema Junpo magazine's 1999 poll of the Top Japanese Films of the 20th Century. In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean depths, with hundreds of lives lost. During the chaos, three men are witnessed fleeing a burning pawnshop in the Hokkaido port town of Iwanai. The police suspect theft and arson, and when Detective Yumisaka (Junzaburo Ban) discovers the burned remains of a boat and the corpses of two men, he sets about tracking the shadowy third figure. Meanwhile, the mysterious Takichi Inukai (Rentaro Mikuni) takes shelter with a prostitute, Yae (Sachiko Hidari), a brief encounter that will come to define both of their lives. A decade later, long after the trail has gone cold, Yumisaka is called back by his successor Detective Ajimura (Ken Takakura) as two new dead bodies are found. Making it's home video debut outside of Japan, this adaptation of Tsutomu Minakami's 1700-page novel is a landmark in master director Uchida's oeuvre. It's gritty monochrome photography has the immediacy of newsreel as Uchida uses the landscapes of postwar Japan to explore the massive social upheaval and unspoken legacies of the war, and create an unsettling karmic allegory of a man's struggle to escape his past sins

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Director: Tomu Uchida

Starring: Rentarô Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Kôji Mitsui

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Runtime: 183 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: Arrow

Home Video Release Date: September 27, 2022




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Blu-ray
  • Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
  • Resolution: 1080p
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Region: Region A/1

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Dubbed:
  • Blu-ray: None

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  • Blu-ray: LPCM Mono


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Blu-ray: English



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  • High Definition presentation of the restored 183 minute-long cut of the film
  • Original uncompressed mono audio
  • Optional English subtitles
  • Introduction by writer and curator Jasper Sharp
  • Scene-specific commentaries from leading Japanese film scholars Aaron Gerow, Irene González-López, Erik Homenick, Earl Jackson, Daisuke Miyao and Alexander Zahlten
  • Original theatrical trailer
  • Image gallery
  • Tomu Uchida filmography
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
  • First pressing only: Fully illustrated collector's booklet featuring writing on the film by David Baldwin and Inuhiko Yomota


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A Fugitive From The Past 1965 Bluray



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