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- The funeral [videorecording] / by Ōtaki, Hideji,1925-2012,actor.; Hosogoe, Seigo,film producer.; Itami, Jūzō,1933-1997,film director,screenwriter.; Iyer, Pico,writer of supplemental material.(CARDINAL)739480; Maeda, Yonezo,1935-2021,director of photography.; Miyamoto, Nobuko,1945-actor.; Okada, Yutaka,1938-film producer.; Sugai, Kin,1926-2018,actor.; Suzuki, Akira,1928-2014,editor of moving image work.; Tamaoki, Yasushi,film producer.; Yamazaki, Tsutomu,1936-actor.; Yuasa, Jōji,composer (expression); Criterion Collection (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)348269; Itami Purodakushon,production company.; Nyū Senchurī Purodyūsāzu,production company.;
Cinematography, Yonezo Maeda ; editor, Akira Suzuki ; music, Joji Yuasa.Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Ōtaki Hideji."It's death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Yasujiro Ozu regular Chishu Ryu), and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits"--Container.Special edition features: interview with actors Nobuko Miyamoto and Manpei Ikeuchi; Creative marriages: Juzo Itami & Nobuko Miyamoto (a short program produced by the Criterion Channel); commercials for Ichiroku Tart by director Juzo Itami; trailers; plus an essay by Pico Iyer.DVD; NTSC; region 1; full screen presentation; Dolby monaural.- Subjects: Foreign language films; Dark comedy films.; Feature films.; Fiction films.; Buddhist funeral rites and ceremonies; Families;
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