Independent British distributors Third Window Films have detailed their upcoming Blu-ray release of
Japanese auteur Shinya Tsukamoto's film Fires on the Plain (2014), starring Shinya Tsukamoto, Rirî Furankî (Lily Franky), Tatsuya Nakamura, and Yûko Nakamura. The release will be available for purchase on September 11.
Synopsis: In the final stages of WWII, the occupying Japanese army in the Philippines is rapidly losing ground, facing local resistance combined with an American offensive. The final few Japanese survivors, having almost been wiped out, have crossed the threshold into a realm where there are no friends, no enemies and no God. (Based on the 1959 film of the same name by Kon Ichikawa. In the United States, the original film is currently available only on DVD via the Criterion Collection).
Special Features:
An hour long extensive making of featurette
Audio commentary by Tom Mes, author of Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto
First 1000 copies come with limited edition illustrated slipcase by Mathieu Bablet
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The label has also dated its upcoming Blu-ray release of Takeshi Kitano's comedy Getting Any? (1994), starring Takeshi Kitano, Hakuryû, Tokie Hidari, Akiji Kobayashi, and Masumi Okada. The release will be available for purchase on October 16.
Synopsis: A slapstick comedy about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades. NEW RESTORATION.