I Am Waiting Blu-ray
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Posted July 18, 2024 05:14 PM by Webmaster
Radiance Films will issue a standard edition Blu-ray of Koreyoshi Kurahara'sI Am Waiting (1957), starring Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Naoki Sugiura, Kenjiro Uemura, and Hideaki Nitani. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on September 23.
Description :A failed boxer and a waitress with a dark past run afoul of an underworld syndicate that seeks to exploit the woman to its own ends. With dreams of escaping to Brazil, he agrees to help. But neither the past nor the future turns out to be exactly what it seems. A foundational film from the pioneering studio of post-war Japanese noir Nikkatsu, I Am Waiting was directed by a master of the genre and stars Yujiro Ishihara and Mie Kitahara, the on-screen and real-life couple that ruled Japanese popular cinema of the 1950s.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description :A failed boxer and a waitress with a dark past run afoul of an underworld syndicate that seeks to exploit the woman to its own ends. With dreams of escaping to Brazil, he agrees to help. But neither the past nor the future turns out to be exactly what it seems. A foundational film from the pioneering studio of post-war Japanese noir Nikkatsu, I Am Waiting was directed by a master of the genre and stars Yujiro Ishihara and Mie Kitahara, the on-screen and real-life couple that ruled Japanese popular cinema of the 1950s.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- High-Definition digital transfer
- Uncompressed mono PCM audio
- Audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp
- Yujiro's Travel Diary - a documentary on star Yujiro Ishihara during location shooting in Europe (1959, 42 mins)
- The Yujiro Effect - a visual essay by Mark Schilling on the monumental impact the film's star had on Japanese pop culture
- Trailer
- Optional English subtitles
