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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi everyone,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Actually, the excellent French DVD company Carlotta
Films is doing just that. Two box sets containing just about all of
Yoshida's features will be coming out, with French but no English
subtitles, from them in March: <A
href="http://www.dvdrama.com/news-23837-planning-carlotta-janvier-avril-2008.php">http://www.dvdrama.com/news-23837-planning-carlotta-janvier-avril-2008.php</A>. The
same company is also releasing two of Mizoguchi's rarest films, Poppies and
Oyuki the Virgin, earlier that month (to the best of my knowledge, neither of
these is on DVD anywhere at the moment). Presumably the transfers of the
Yoshida films will be ports from the Japanese discs and this will certainly
give wider exposure to his work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Richard Suchenski</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yale University</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>It would be nice if somebody in France could get rights to the new subs
being prepared for this retrospective and put some DVDs out. I've heard
that Philippe Jacquier, Yoshida's former producer in France, has
moved into doing work on design and photography, so perhaps a company like
Zootrope Films?</DIV>
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