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Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Ai no korīda (Motion picture)
Main Author: Miki, Minoru, 1930-2011 (Composer)
Corporate Authors: Criterion Collection (Firm), Janus Films, Argos Films, Ōshima Nagisa Purodakushon
Other Authors: Ōshima, Nagisa, 1932-2013 (Screenwriter, Director), Dauman, Anatole, 1925-1998 (Producer), Matsuda, Eiko, 1947- (Actor), Fuji, Tatsuya, 1941- (Actor), Nakajima, Aoi (Actor), Matsui, Yasuko (Actor), Seri, Meika (Actor), Kobayashi, Kanae (Actor), Tonoyama, Tiji (Actor), Kokonoe, Kyôji (Actor), Shiraishi, Naomi (Actor), Noda, Shinkichi (Actor), Okada, Kyôko (Actor), Richie, Donald, 1924-2013
Format: Video Blu-ray Disc
Language:Japanese
Language Notes:Japanese with optional English subtitles. Opening credits and title frame in French.
Published: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, 2009.
Edition:Blu-ray ed., widescreen.
Series:Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 466.
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Description
Summary:Based on the real incident of Abe Sada. An ex-prostitute becomes involved in an obsessive love affair with the master of the household where she is employed as a servant which culminates in murder and mutilation.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture in 1976.
Booklet features an essay by Donald Richie and a reprinted interview with Oshima.
Extras include: audio commentary by Tony Rayns; new interview with Tatsuya Fuji; 1976 interview with Fuji and Eiko Matsuda; 2003 interviews with Hayao Shibata, Koji Wakamatsu, Yoichi Sai and Yoko Asakura; deleted footage; US trailer.
Videorecording.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (36 pages : col. ill. ; 18 cm.).
Format:Blu-ray disc; Region A; Dolby Digital (uncompressed monaural soundtrack); high definition; requires Blu-ray player.
Production Credits:Cinematographer, Ito Hideo ; art, Toda Jūshō ; editors, Keiichi Uraoka, Patrick Sauvion ; original music, Miki Minoru.
ISBN:1604651482
9781604651485