Jujiro on DVD

[Jasper Sharp]

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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