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

Michael Kerpan mekerpan at verizon.net
Mon Jan 10 07:39:24 EST 2011


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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