New DVD -- Masumura's Kyojin to gangu

[Michael E Kerpan Jr]

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:

***begin***

When three rival candy companies go to war for market supremacy, World 
Caramels enlists a lower-class girl with appallingly bad teeth to be 
their new spokesmodel. In a world of industrial spies, hostile takeovers 
and boardroom hysterics, the animal instincts of this overnight star 
prove to be the most cutthroat of all. This razor-sharp, fast-paced 
attack on post-war corporate society and TV culture plays like a 
Japanese combination of "Dr. Strangelove" and "Will Success Spoil Rock 
Hunter?" More valid today than the day it was made, New Wave master 
Yasuzo Masumura's DaieiScope explosion of color, sound and acid wit 
ranks with the best satires of Billy Wilder and Frank Tashlin.

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I must say I've never heard of either the film or the director.  Is this 
actually more signifcant than all the Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse  (et al) 
classics that are NOT coming out on DVD?

Michael Kerpan