Other Titles • Tales of Ugetsu (1954) • Ugetsu monogatari • Tales of a Pale and Mysterious Moon After the Rain (1953) • Ugetsu • Ugetsu - Erzählungen unter dem Regenmond (1953) • Tales After The Rain • Tales of a Pale Moon After the Rain
Release Date: Nov 8, 2005 Region: 1 Runtime: 97 mins Studio: Criterion Audio:
JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Mono
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles: English Packaging: Custom Case Rating: NR Features:
Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns Two Worlds Intertwined, an appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda (Double Suicide, Samurai Spy) Process and Production, a new video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu, about the making of the film Video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa Theatrical trailers Disc Two: Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a 150-minute documentary by Kaneto Shindo Plus: A 72-page booklet featuring the original short stories on which the film is based: Akinari Ueda’s The House in the Thicket and Lust of the Serpent and Guy de Maupassant’s How He Got the Legion of Honor and a new essay by critic Phillip Lopate.