Thanks and New Question re Kurosawa's "Quiet Duel"

[Eija Niskanen]

Rashomon is also a Daiei production.

Eija

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:39 PM, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:
> Quiet Duel was made for Daiei. I assume that this was because Totho was then shut down by labor strife.  I think this was AK's only Daiei film.
>
> Dreams was made by Warner Brothers (and AK's own production compay).
>
> --- On Mon, 1/10/11, mccaskem at georgetown.edu <mccaskem at georgetown.edu> wrote:
>
>> From: mccaskem at georgetown.edu <mccaskem at georgetown.edu>
>> Subject: Thanks and New Question re Kurosawa's "Quiet Duel"
>> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
>> Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 11:43 AM
>> I'd like to thank everyone for
>> helping answer my two questions re film and
>> clothing, in particular colleagues Faith Bach, M. Raine, D.
>> Martinez, A. Zahlten,
>> and M. Kerpan. The information you sent was both
>> interesting and highly
>> helpful, and I was introduced to several new information
>> sources as well.
>>
>> I have yet another Kurosawa-related historical question,
>> but I'd like to put that
>> on hold in favor of questions about something that has
>> surprised and puzzled
>> me.
>>
>> I got a set of the AK 100 collection of 25 Kurosawa films a
>> while ago. I've seen
>> all the Kurosawa films, so the AK 100 set is more of a
>> resource for my students
>> in a class re Kurosawa films starting shortly. Our univ.
>> library has a set as well.
>>
>> I had just assumed that the 5 missing films were early
>> ones, and I got the
>> Kurosawa First Films collection to remedy that.
>>
>> But as I was organizing reserve book and film matters
>> yesterday, I realized that
>> the films missing from AK 100 are actually:
>>
>> Shizukanaru ketto/Quiet Duel
>> Dersu Uzala
>> Ran
>> Rhapsody in August
>> Dreams
>>
>> Dersu Uzala, Ran, and Rhapsody in August are readily
>> available separately on
>> DVD, but I was surprised to find that Quiet Duel and Dreams
>> have become
>> scarcer items - though I was able to order DVD copies of
>> both.
>>
>> I realize that I've only seen Quiet Duel on DVD in the
>> older Japanese set of
>> Kurosawa films. I've never seen an edition with English
>> subtitles. There's just
>> one, and it's not a Criterion or Eclipse or Fiim Masters
>> edition at all. Our univ.
>> library does not have a copy, even on VHS (except on DVD in
>> our Qatar Branch,
>> which turns out to have a great film collection of its
>> own).
>>
>> I was even more surprised to find that Dreams is becoming
>> harder to get on
>> DVD. I know it may be available for online rental viewing,
>> but it's good to have
>> DVD copies as well, I think.
>>
>> Are these situations re Quiet Duel and Dreams on DVD the
>> result of problems in
>> getting business rights, or due to some other issue(s)? I
>> had just assumed they
>> would both be quite readily available in "in print" DVD
>> versions - until yesterday.
>>
>> Many Thanks,
>>
>> Michael McC
>> Georgetown Univ.
>>
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Eija Niskanen
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