Seijun Suzuki’s ‘The Taisho Trilogy’ coming to DVD and Blu-ray


By   |  May 4, 2017

Arrow Academy are bringing Seijun Suzuki’s series of cryptic supernatural dramas, ‘The Taisho Trilogy’ to Blu-ray and DVD on June 5, 2017.

After over a decade in the wilderness following his firing from Nikkatsu for ‘Branded to Kill’ (1967), maverick director Seijun Suzuki returned with a vengeance with this critically-praised trilogy set during the liberal enlightenment of Japan’s Taisho Era (1912-26). Presenting a dramatic turn from more his familiar tales of cops, gangsters and unruly youth, these surrealistic psychological puzzles drip with a lush exoticism, distinctively capturing the pandemonium of a bygone age of decadence and excess, when Western ideas, fashions, technologies and art fused into everyday aspect of Japanese life.

Synopsis: In the multiple Japanese Academy Award-winning ‘Zigeunerweisen’ (1980), two intellectuals and former colleagues from military academy involve their wives in a series of dangerous sexual games. In ‘Kageroza’ (1981), a playwright is drawn like a moth to a flame to a mysterious beauty who might be a ghost, while ‘Yumeji’ (1991) imagines the real-life painter-poet Takehisa Yumeji’s encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Features:
– High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
– Original stereo audio (uncompressed on the Blu-ray)
– Optional English subtitles
– New introductions to each film by critic Tony Rayns
– Making-of featurette
– Vintage interview with Seijun Suzuki
– Limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley

‘The Taisho Trilogy’ is available for pre-order now from Amazon.co.uk.

Phil Mills
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