_Zangiku monogatari_

[Joel Cohn]

I recently saw an advertisement for an English-subtitled videotape of
Mizoguchi's _Zangiku monogatari_ (Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, 1939)
which listed the run time as 115  minutes.  The 1998-99 _Pia Cinema Club_
lists this film as 143 minutes.  I know that some footage is likely to get
cut in video versions, but this seems like a lot.  Can anybody comment on
just what has been left out of the video, and how it changes the overall
effect of the film?

thanks,
J. Cohn
University of Hawaii at Manoa