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Seijun Suzuki's The Taisho Trilogy (3-Disc Standard Edition)

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Starring: Yoshio Harada, Naoko Ôtani, Yûsaku Matsuda, Michiyo Yasuda, Kenji Sawada
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Plot Sypnosis:

HAUNTING, HYPNOTIC, FLAMBOYANT, EROTIC, BIZARRE SUZUKI!

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.

Release Details

Movie Release Year: 1991
Tech Specs & Release Details

Length: 412
Specs: 3-Disc Blu-ray
Video Resolution/Codec: 1080p AVC/MPEG-4
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.66:1, 1.33:1
Audio Formats: Japanese: LPCM 2.0
Subtitles/Captions: English
Special Features: • Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork choices