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Akio Jissoji: The Buddhist Trilogy Limited Edition Blu-Ray
Please note this is a region B Blu-ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Akio Jiss&244;ji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japan's film and television industries For some he is best-known for his science-fiction the 1960s TV series Ultraman and 1988's box-office success Tokyo The Last Megalopolis For others it is his 1990s adaptations of horror and mystery novelist Edogawa Rampo such as Watcher in the Attic and Murder on D Street And then there are his New Wave films for the Art Theatre Guild three of which This Transient Life Mandara and Poem forming The Buddhist Trilogy are collected here Winner of the Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno Film Festival This Transient Life is among the Art Theatre Guild's most
successful and most controversial productions The film concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations placed on them he has little interest in further education or his father's business instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continually refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage Their closeness and isolation gives way to an incestuous relationship which in turn breeds disaster Mandara Jiss&244;ji's first colour feature maintained the controversial subject matter focusing on a cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexual release Shot as with all of Jiss&244;ji's Art Theatre Guild works in a radically stylised manner the film sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fiercely experimental approach of his
Japanese New Wave contemporaries The final entry in the trilogy Poem returns to black and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helplessly embroiled in the schemes of two brothers Written by Toshir&244; Ishid&244; (screenwriter of Nagisa &212;shima's The Sun's Burial and Sh&244;hei Imamura's Black Rain) who also penned This Transient Life and Mandara Poem continues the trilogy's exploration of faith in a post-industrial world Actors Kotobuki Hananomoto Akiji Kobayashi Eiji Okada K&244;ji ShimizuDirectors Akio JissojiFormat PALLanguage JapaneseSubtitles EnglishRegion Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats)Number of discs 3
successful and most controversial productions The film concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations placed on them he has little interest in further education or his father's business instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continually refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage Their closeness and isolation gives way to an incestuous relationship which in turn breeds disaster Mandara Jiss&244;ji's first colour feature maintained the controversial subject matter focusing on a cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexual release Shot as with all of Jiss&244;ji's Art Theatre Guild works in a radically stylised manner the film sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fiercely experimental approach of his
Japanese New Wave contemporaries The final entry in the trilogy Poem returns to black and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helplessly embroiled in the schemes of two brothers Written by Toshir&244; Ishid&244; (screenwriter of Nagisa &212;shima's The Sun's Burial and Sh&244;hei Imamura's Black Rain) who also penned This Transient Life and Mandara Poem continues the trilogy's exploration of faith in a post-industrial world Actors Kotobuki Hananomoto Akiji Kobayashi Eiji Okada K&244;ji ShimizuDirectors Akio JissojiFormat PALLanguage JapaneseSubtitles EnglishRegion Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats)Number of discs 3
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