Radiance
Original title: 水で書かれた物語 / Mizu from kakareta monogatari
Year: 1965
Country: Japan
Region code: B
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 5060974680849
Image: 2.35:1 2K (1080p)
HDR: -
Audio:
TBA
Subtitles : English
Rating: 18
Genre: Drama
Cast: Mariko Okada, Yasunori Ikikawa, Ruriko Asaoka
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Synopsis:
From one of the leading lights of the Japanese New Wave, Kiju Yoshida (Eros + Massacre) broke with studio filmmaking for A Story Written With Water, his first independent production and the start of his signature style. Telling the story of a man torn between his fiancee and the familial bond of his mother, Yoshida creates a dazzling narrative that uses flashbacks to tell his story of obsession and desire. With the luminous Mariko Okada as the mother, the celebrated star of such masterpieces as Floating Clouds and Late Autumn, she would become Yoshida's muse across a series of the director's 'anti-melodramas'. Yoshida's singular visual flair and revolutionary exploration of film codes place him as one of the finest Japanese filmmakers of the postwar period, Radiance Films is proud to present A Story Written With Water on Blu-ray for the first time in the world.
Additional features:
High-Definition digital transfer
Uncompressed mono PCM audio
New interview with star Mariko Okada (2023)
Archival interview with director Kiju Yoshida (2008)
Interview with scholar Jennifer Coates, author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (2023)
Trailer
Newly translated English subtitles
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by scholar and author Alexander Jacoby
Single pressing of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
