Third Window Films Unveils New Releases
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Posted April 2, 2024 01:18 PM by Webmaster
British label Third Window Films has announced that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog. They are: The Crazy Family (1984), Love Hotel (1985), and Luminous Woman (1987). The three releases will be available for purchase later this year.
Luminous Woman
This strange work from Shinji Somai (Typhoon Club) is presented with a brand new 2K restoration from the original negatives.
A burly hulk of a man (pro-wrestler Keiji Muto) makes his way from Hokkaido to the decrepit trash heaps of outer Tokyo in a quest to find his beloved fiance, but meets a nightclub diva who has lost the ability to sing. When he finds himself pulled into the gladiator pits of a Tokyo nightclub, the mountain man agrees to fight in exchange for information on his lost love, yet also finds himself drawn to the various pulls of the big city. This unconventional love story employs powerful imagery in a daring attempt to visualize the contrast between people who live in concert with nature, and those who live in urbanized civil society.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The Crazy Family
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide. As the Kobayashis' house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them from the asylum…at any cost.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Love Hotel
After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or support, he eventually encounters Nami, a part-time prostitute who has undergone similar tribulations. An existential study of two lonely and tortured souls, Somai's melancholic roman porno follows the pair as they kindle a newfound friendship amid the chaos of their broken and dispirited lives.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Luminous Woman
This strange work from Shinji Somai (Typhoon Club) is presented with a brand new 2K restoration from the original negatives.
A burly hulk of a man (pro-wrestler Keiji Muto) makes his way from Hokkaido to the decrepit trash heaps of outer Tokyo in a quest to find his beloved fiance, but meets a nightclub diva who has lost the ability to sing. When he finds himself pulled into the gladiator pits of a Tokyo nightclub, the mountain man agrees to fight in exchange for information on his lost love, yet also finds himself drawn to the various pulls of the big city. This unconventional love story employs powerful imagery in a daring attempt to visualize the contrast between people who live in concert with nature, and those who live in urbanized civil society.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL CAMERA NEGATIVE
- Making Of (50 minutes)
- Deleted Scenes (50 minutes)
- Trailer
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
The Crazy Family
The Kobayashi family finally are able to move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment to the suburban house of their dreams. But things are not as perfect as they seem: the house is infested by termites and the family starts going crazy: Son Masaki is studying so obsessively for his exams that he's losing his mind; daughter Erika is oblivious of all but her forthcoming record company audition, grandfather Yasukuni starts getting World War II flashbacks and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "sickness" that he thinks can only be cured by group suicide. As the Kobayashis' house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them from the asylum…at any cost.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Director approved remaster from the original negatives
- Feature length audio commentary by Tom Mes
- Director Gakuryu (exSogo) Ishii interview
- "The Crazy Family: Sogo Ishii's Wild Child" Video essay by James Balmont
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
Love Hotel
After Tetsuro loses his business, the yakuza collect his debt in the most violent, shocking way imaginable. Honorably, he divorces his wife and becomes a taxi driver. Existing bereft of meaning or support, he eventually encounters Nami, a part-time prostitute who has undergone similar tribulations. An existential study of two lonely and tortured souls, Somai's melancholic roman porno follows the pair as they kindle a newfound friendship amid the chaos of their broken and dispirited lives.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
- Shinji Somai at the Director's Company: Video essay by Josh Slater-Williams
- Archival interview with actor Minori Terada and assistant director Koji Enokido
- Original Trailer
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
