Jujiro on DVD

[Aaron Gerow]

Jasper,

I also know about that, so I find it curious that all the intertitles  
are in Japanese.

Aaron

On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:09 PM, Jasper Sharp wrote:

> This is great news Aaron. I am interested though about the question  
> of intertitles in the film. Jujiro was considered lost for a long  
> time in Japan, until it was discovered in the British Film Institute  
> in London, from what I understand. This was from the same print that  
> Kinugasa took across to Europe after just making it. When this  
> screened at the National Film Center in Tokyo about 5 years ago,  
> there were English language intertitles and no Japanese written at  
> all - one of those rare moments when I could let out a smug "hah!"  
> and enjoy the film while everyone else sat seething in disappointment.
> So yes, I am also intrigued where the print came from.
>
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> >
> > I was thus extremely surprised to see that Kinugasa Teinosuke's  
> Jujiro
> > (Crossroads, 1928) has recently been put out on DVD by one of these
> > cut-rate labels, Disk Plan, in their Nihon Meisaku Gekijo series. I
> > bought a copy to check it out and, thankfully, the visuals are  
> pretty
> > good for the price (1000 yen). It is 74 minutes in length, which  
> means
> > they probably did at silent speed. There is no music, no menu, no
> > chapters, and of course no subtitles, but given that this has never
> > even come out on VHS (unlike Kinugasa's Page of Madness, which came
> > out on VHS in the USA about 20 years ago), it was amazing to see  
> this.
> > I wonder where they got the print for this.
>
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