Kiju Yoshida Collection - 3-Disc Box Set ( Erosu purasu gyakusatsu / Rengoku eroica / Kaigenrei ) ( Eros + Massacre / Heroic Purgatory / Coup d'Etat )

Kiju Yoshida Collection - 3-Disc Box Set (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Original Title: Erosu purasu gyakusatsu / Rengoku eroica / Kaigenrei
Alternate Title: Eros + Massacre / Heroic Purgatory / Coup d'Etat
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Japanese ( Dolby Linear PCM )
Japanese ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
607 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
3-DVD Set
Box Set
Commentary
Documentary
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Uncut
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1969 - 1973 and produced in:
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Yoshishige Yoshida

Written By:
Masahiro Yamada
Yoshishige Yoshida
Minoru Betsuyaku

Actors:
Mariko Okada ..... Noe Ito
Toshiyuki Hosokawa ..... Sakae Osugi
Yûko Kusunoki ..... Itsuko Masaoka
Kazuko Inano ..... Akiko Hiraga
Etsushi Takahashi ..... Jun Tsuji
Daijirô Harada ..... Wada
Toshiko Ii ..... Eiko Sokutai
Yoshihide Gotô ..... Chiyoko
Toshiko Inoue ..... Toshiko
Kikuo Kaneuchi ..... Yasuko
Kyûzô Kawabe
Katsuya Kobayashi
Kazuko Kui
Kinji Matsueda
Kazunori Miyazaki
Atsuko Murata
Fumiaki Sakabe
Yoshisada Sakaguchi
Taiko Shinbashi
Takehiko Takagi
Midori Tamai
Masako Yagi
Kei Yoshimizu
Mariko Okada ..... Nanako
Kaizo Kamoda ..... Jyoko
Naho Kimura ..... Shu
Yoshiaki Makita ..... Atsuko
Kaneko Iwasaki ..... Kiyoshi
Tôru Takeuchi ..... Ayu
Kazumi Tsutsui
Rentarô Mikuni ..... Kazuki Kitamura / Ikki Kita
Yasuo Miyake ..... Young soldier
Akiko Kurano ..... Soldier's wife
Tadahiko Sugano ..... Nishida
Masako Yagi ..... Heigo's sister
Yasuyo Matsumura ..... Suzu, Kazuki's wife
Kei Iinuma ..... Iwasa
Masao Imafuku ..... Heigo Asahi
Kazunaga Tsuji ..... Army officer
Taketoshi Naitô
Hatsuo Itô
Shôzô Nanbu
Yasuhiko Shima

Synopsis:

Eros + Massacre (1969)
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Coup d'Etat (1973)
A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

The work of Kiju Yoshida is one of Japanese cinema's obscure pleasures. A contemporary of Nagisa Oshima (Death by Hanging, In the Realm of the Senses) and Masahiro Shinoda (Pale Flower, Assassination), Yoshida started out as an assistant to Keisuke Kinoshita before making his directorial debut at age 27. In the decades that followed he produced more than 20 features and documentaries, yet each and every one has proven difficult to see in the English-speaking world. This collection brings together three works from the late sixties and early seventies, a loose trilogy united by their radical politics and an even more radical shooting style. Eros + Massacre, presented here in both its 169-minute theatrical version and the full-length 220-minute director's cut, tells the parallel stories of early 20th-century anarchist (and free love advocate) Sakae Osugi and a pair of student activists. Their stories interact and intertwine, resulting in a complex, rewarding work that is arguably Yoshida's masterpiece. Heroic Purgatory pushes the dazzling cinematic language of Eros + Massacre even further, presenting a bleak but dreamlike investigation into the political discourses taking place in early seventies Japan. Coup d état returns to the past for a biopic of Ikki Kita, the right-wing extremist who sought to overthrow the government in 1936. Yoshida considered the film to be the culmination of his work, promptly retiring from feature filmmaking following its completion.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 21 April, 2016.