2/Duo 25th Anniversary Blu-ray

Arbelos will release on Blu-ray Nobuhiro Suwa's 2/Duo (1997), starring Hidetoshi Nishijima and Eri Yu. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on November 12.

Description: Kei a cash-strapped aspiring actor (DRIVE MY CAR'S Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store (Eri Yu), are a young couple living a mannered, domestic life. But just beneath the surface of their relationship, a slow dance of high stakes affection and alienation is nearing the breaking point.

An under-seen masterstroke of '90s Japanese cinema, Nobuhiro Suwa's breakout film, 2/DUO deftly conjures the emotional range and improvised precision of Jacques Rivette and Mike Leigh to inhabit a story that incrementally evokes universal sentiment from seemingly quotidian detail.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• NEW video interview with Nobuhiro Suwa
• Hanasareru Gang (1984) - Suwa's feature length student film
• Friends (1986) - Suwa's Super8 short
• A Letter from Hiroshima (2002) - Suwa's short commissioned by the Jeonju International Film 'Festival's Digital Project
• Adventures of a Red Ball (2020) - Short introduction to the Children Meet Cinema (Kodomo Eiga) initiative
• U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• New essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Foreword by Pedro Costa
• REGION-A "LOCKED"