HANA TO HEBI & video censorship in Japan

[Jason Gray]

Miles,

There was a DVD released a few months ago entitled "Hana
to hebi: micchaku shashinshuu" (shashinshuu is "photo
collection", but there are no stills on the DVD). It
contains scenes cut from the film, an interview with Aya
Sugimoto, etc. but was quite heavily mosaiced.

According the Berlin market catalog I have, the version
shown was also 115m. 

I don't know the reasons behind the cuts, especially in
light of what's available on the AV market. Someone else
here might be able to shed some light on that.


--- Miles Wood <diabolik at netvigator.com> ???????
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> What could be the reason behind releasing a cut
> version on DVD? Simply so an
> uncut version could be released later ie. more
> sales? Seems unlikely.
> 
> I wonder what was cut from the cinema version? I
> thought it might be SM
> scenes that might considered too "hard" for theatres
> but there's no reason
> for these to be cut for home video market - I mean ,
> just look at all the AV
> available in Japan - so could it be Ishii is
> refusing to optically censor
> parts of the film and so these have actually been
> cut? Anyway, that's pure
> guess work....
> 
> If the DVD/Jp theatrical release is 115m how long is
> the uncut version which
> played Berlin?
> 
> Miles
> 
>