Third Window Films Reveal Upcoming Releases
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Posted November 20, 2024 07:40 PM by Webmaster
British distributors Third Window Films will add three new titles to their Blu-ray catalog: Scent of a Spell (1985), Mermaid Legend (1984), and Bumpkin Soup (1985).
Scent of a Spell
A Nikkatsu Roman Porno and Directors Company collaboration between director Toshiharu Ikeda (Mermaid Legend) & writer Takashi Ishii (Love Hotel)
While a young man (Johnny Okura) is on his way home from a bar in a torrential downpour, he comes across a woman (Mari Amachi) trying to kill herself by jumping off a bridge. Without thinking, he jumps in to rescue her and save her from drowning. After taking her to his home, he learns that she's escaped from a violent husband whom he decides to try and protect her from. He starts to fall for her, but finds out that there's more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Mermaid Legend
When a fisherman is killed by greedy land developers for standing in the way of their expansion plans, his pearl-diver wife Migiwa moves into unforgiving and vindictive payback on those yakuza responsible. Framed for her husband's murder and forced to shelter in a brothel, hell hath no fury as the bloody battles begin.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Bumpkin Soup
An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of Cure and Tokyo Sonata.
A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Scent of a Spell
A Nikkatsu Roman Porno and Directors Company collaboration between director Toshiharu Ikeda (Mermaid Legend) & writer Takashi Ishii (Love Hotel)
While a young man (Johnny Okura) is on his way home from a bar in a torrential downpour, he comes across a woman (Mari Amachi) trying to kill herself by jumping off a bridge. Without thinking, he jumps in to rescue her and save her from drowning. After taking her to his home, he learns that she's escaped from a violent husband whom he decides to try and protect her from. He starts to fall for her, but finds out that there's more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Interview with Tokyo Intl. Film Festival programming director Shozo Ichiyama
- Feature length audio commentary by Samm Deighan
- Video Essay by Matthew Carter
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
- In Japanese, with English subtitles
Mermaid Legend
When a fisherman is killed by greedy land developers for standing in the way of their expansion plans, his pearl-diver wife Migiwa moves into unforgiving and vindictive payback on those yakuza responsible. Framed for her husband's murder and forced to shelter in a brothel, hell hath no fury as the bloody battles begin.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Interview with writer Takuya Nishioka
- Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp and Tom Mes
- Video Essay on Toshiyuki Honda by James Balmont
- Trailer
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
- In Japanese, with English subtitles
Bumpkin Soup
An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of Cure and Tokyo Sonata.
A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Interview with actress Yoriko Doguchi
- Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
- Video Essay by Jerry White, author of "The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa : Master of Fear"
- Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
- 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
- In Japanese, with English subtitles
