New Seijun (was Absolutely no politics)

[M Arnold]

>From: "A. M. Nornes" <amnornes at umich.edu>

>Do you know if they are subtitled?

Unfortunately I'm pretty sure they don't have any subtitles, English or 
Japanese.  Same with the Terayama Shuji DVDs.

Thanks for the info on the film!

Today I discovered that new VHS tapes (rental only?) have also been released 
for the 3 Suzuki films.  Tsutaya in Shinjuku had a few copies of each, and 
it looked like they were all checked out.  The video store had very colorful 
flyers for the new movie too.

I forgot to mention it but Koroshi no Rakuin, Tokyo Nagaremono and Yajuu no 
Seishun are also coming out on DVD in Japan, on the 26th of next month.  I 
think the first two are already available on DVD in America, with English 
subtitles.

Tom Mes said he loved the new film; I'm getting pretty excited about it 
myself.  I wonder what the "kakumei.. kakumei..." in the trailer is 
referring to.  Like Tom mentioned, Pistol Opera is 1.33 ratio (or 
"standard"), but this isn't particularly unusual for a Suzuki film.  A lot 
(all?) of his Nikkatsu-era movies were scope, but Zigeunerweisen and 
Kageroza are both standard, and I think Yumeji is vista size.

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Is this supposed to mean Suzuki Seijun "Year" or Suzuki Seijun "Iyaaa!"?

I almost went to see the late showing of Aoyama Shinji's new film at 
Eurospace tonight, but I decided I didn't want to stay up that late.  I 
don't think I've seen too much discussion of "Roji e..." here.  Have any of 
you seen it?

Michael Arnold

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