New Video Titles released in US

[Christopher & Jennifer Beckett]

Other current Home Vision Japanese releases that are not featured on the
site are Shinoda's Double Suicide and Suzuki's Branded to Kill (which I
much preferred to Tokyo Drifter, though I liked that as well). Allegedly
they are putting out new tapes of Kurosawa's Stray Dog, The Bad Sleep Well
and The Lower Depths, but it's been so long since their website has been
updated that I haven't the foggiest idea if this is true.

Christopher

At 10:52 AM 4/25/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I was just at the video store near me, and was shocked to find two new
>releases:
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>Ichikawa Kon's Kagi (Odd Obsession, 1959, based on the Tanizaki novel)
>Suzuki Seijun's Tokyo nagaremono (Tokyo Drifter, 1966)
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>These are released by Janus Films, a division(?) of Home Vision Cinema.
>However, they are not yet even listed on the company's web site
>(http://www.homevisioncinema.com).  Does anyone know if there are more that
>maybe my video store opted not to obtain?  I'm trying to obtain funding for
>a possible series of New Wave / 1960s films at the PFA in Berkeley this
>summer, and I don't want suggest films that have been already been released
>on video.
>
>If I don't hear back from anyone by Monday, I'm going to call their 800
>number, and I'll keep everyone posted on what I find.
>
>Home Vision Cinema
>5547 North Ravenswood Avenue
>Chicago, IL 60640-1199
>phone 800-826-FILM
>fax (312) 878-8406
>
>_______________________________________________
>David Averbach
>
>University of California at Berkeley
>Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
>104 Durant
>Berkeley, CA 94720
>FAX: (510) 642-6931
>
>averbach at socrates.berkeley.edu
>
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