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Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy

Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy

(Limited Edition)
  • Release 20/08/2019
  • Film and TV Genre Drama, Foreign-Japanese
  • Media Format Blu-ray
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Akio Jissôji 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, Jissôji's first color 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 Jissôji's Art Theatre Guild works, in a radically stylized 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 Toshirô Ishidô (screenwriter of Nagisa Ôshima's The Sun's Burial and Shôhei 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

Description

Title: Akio Jissôji: The Buddhist Trilogy
Genre: Drama, Foreign-Japanese
Starring: Kotobuki Hananomoto, Akiji Kobayashi, Koji Shimizu, Eiji Okada
Theme: Asian-American Heritage
Studio: Arrow Video
Number of Discs: 3
Attributes: Limited Edition
Release Date: 20/08/2019
Media Format: Blu-ray
Rated: MA
UPC: 760137130789
Original Language: JAP
Run Time: 143 minutes
Year of Release: 1970