New DVD -- Masumura's Kyojin to gangu

[Jasper Sharp]

Images release of Blind Beast is region 1 encoded, as it doesnt play on my 
laptop.

As regards to the significance of Masumura, Id say hes very significant, 
making over a hundred films under contract for Daiei, many featuring Daiei 
starlet Ayako Wakao. Oshima was very influenced by him in the early days of 
the New Wave, and the films of his that i have seen have never failed to 
impress. For more info, you might want to look at midnight eye for reviews 
of Red Angel and Blind Beast. I cant wait to see his other films.
True, its very sad that Mizoguchi, Ozu, and Kurosawa releases are under 
represented in terms of Eng subbed versions, though Francophones should 
check out releases on amazon.fr. However, just because these directors 
caught on in the west, it is not to say that there arent other directors 
worthy of attention. Hopefully one day the later works of Teinosuke 
Kinugasa, and lesser known directors such as Kei Kumai, Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 
Susumu Hani, Shinoda, Mori Issei and a host of others will be made available 
to us in Eng lang versions. Until then, we should at least be happy that new 
stuff that has never been significantly distributed outside of Japan is 
actually coming out.


Jasper Sharp

Midnight Eye
www.midnighteye.com


>From: MileFilms at aol.com
>Reply-To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>Subject: Re: New DVD -- Masumura's Kyojin to gangu
>Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:54:02 EST
>
>
>In a message dated 1/30/02 9:46:15 PM, kerpan at attglobal.net writes:
>
><< Amazon claims that Yasuzo Masumura's "Kyojin to gangu" ("Giants and
>Toys) (1958) will be released on DVD (Region 1) by Image Entertainment
>on  February 12.  The film is described as follows: >>
>
>I would be surprised if the DVD isn't actually Region 0, since Image 
>usually
>doesn't encode their films. You might want to call their customer service 
>to
>find out (800-473-3475).
>
>Dennis Doros
>Milestone Film & Video
>PO Box 128
>Harrington Park, NJ 07640
>Phone: (201) 767-3117 or in the US (800) 603-1104
>Fax: (201) 767-3035
>Email: MileFilms at aol.com
>Website: www.milestonefilms.com





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