Mizoguchi – what else s urvives?

[SYBIL.THORNTON at asu.edu]

Thank you, Trond!

I saw most of these films in 35mm at the Pacific Film Archive some thirty 
years ago and they were gorgeous.
Cheers,
SAT

Quoting "Trond S. Trondsen" <trondsen at shaw.ca>:

> Sybil: we are using brand new (rather luminous) masters generated
> by the Japanese  rightsholder, and there will be no burned-in
> subtitles.
> There may be a ninth film as well, but there are some outstanding  
> issues still.
> The discs will be PAL/Region 2, but I remind you that for ~$50, you
> can
> get a DVD player perfectly capable of playing these discs (and any  
> DVD for
> that matter, our upcoming Naruse box comes to mind) on any North  
> American
> TV, perfect for home of classroom use.  One of the many possibilities
> are (this is the one I have):
> http://tinyurl.com/r423b
> 
> Region coding and color formats are not the hindrances they used to
> be,
> a couple of years ago, fortunately.
> 
> 
> Trond
> http://www.mastersofcinema.org/
> 
> 
> On 24-Sep-06, at 5:13 PM, SYBIL.THORNTON at asu.edu wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Quick question:  what are you using for originals?  I ask because  
> > the only
> > subtitled video version of Chikamatsu monogatari was a third or
> fourth
> > generation print and gave no indication of the quality of the  
> > cinematography
> > or set design, etc.
> > Cheers,
> > SA Thornton
> > ASU, History
> >
> >
> > Quoting "Trond S. Trondsen" <trondsen at shaw.ca>:
> >
> >>
> >> As an aside, I'd like to mention that we will release the
> >> following Mizoguchi titles shortly, on English subtitled
> >> DVD – as part of the Masters of Cinema Series:
> >>
> >> Oyu-sama (Miss Oyu, 1951)
> >> Ugetsu Monogatari (1953)
> >> Gion bayashi (Gion Festival Music, 1953)
> >> Sansho Dayu (Sansho the Bailiff, 1954)
> >> Uwasa no onna (The Woman of Rumour, 1954)
> >> Chikamatsu mongatari (1954)
> >> Yohiki (The Empress Yang Kwei Fei, 1955)
> >> Akasen chitai (Street of Shame, 1956)
> >>
> >> ...though it's not yet listed on the web site itself
> >> http://www.eurekavideo.co.uk/moc/catalogue/
> >>
> >> --
> >> Trond S. Trondsen
> >> Masters of Cinema . org
> >> http://www.mastersofcinema.org/
> >>
> >>
> >> On 24-Sep-06, at 11:23 AM, Michael E Kerpan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I saw most of these via materials NOT subtitled in English --
> >>> including
> >>> French-subtitled DVDs and Japanese videos and DVDs.  also I
> managed
> >>
> >>> to see
> >>> copies of some English-subbed broadcasts of rarities (originally
> >> from
> >>> Australia, I suspect).
> >>>
> >>> I watch whatever I can get (except I did pass on a Spanish _dub_
> of
> >>
> >>> "Madam
> >>> Yuki"). ;~}
> >>>
> >>> MEK
> >>>
> >>> On Saturday 23 September 2006 21:03, Mark R. Harris wrote:
> >>>> How did you manage to track all of these down? Did most of your
> >>>> viewing
> >>>> take place in Japan, and were most of the films un-subtitled in
> >>>> English?
> >>>> I'm quite impressed.
> >>
> >>
> 
>