Ikiru (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Manufacturer: Criterion Collection Brand: Image Entertainment Color: black & white

In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. As they ferry their expensive cargo to a faraway oil fire, each bump and jolt tests their courage, their friendship, and their nerves. The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) is one of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, a white-knuckle ride from France s legendary master of suspense Henri Georges-Clouzot.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:Restored high-definition digital transfer with uncompressed monaural soundtrackVideo interviews with assistant director Michel Romanoff and Henri-Georges Clouzot biographer Marc GodinInterview with Yves Montand from 1988Henri-Georges Clouzot: The Enlightened Tyrant, a 2004 documentary on the director s careerCensored, an analysis of cuts made to the film for its 1955 U.S. releasePLUS: An booklet featuring an essay by novelist Dennis Lehane

Manufacturer: Criterion Collection Brand: IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT Color: color

The Samurai Trilogy, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki (The Rickshaw Man) and starring the inimitable Toshiro Mifune (Seven Samurai), was one of Japan’s most successful exports of the 1950s, a rousing, emotionally gripping tale of combat and self-discovery. Based on a novel that’s often called Japan’s Gone with the Wind, this sweeping saga fictionalizes the life of the legendary seventeenth-century swordsman (and writer and artist) Musashi Miyamoto, following him on his path from unruly youth to enlightened warrior. With these three films—1954’s Oscar-winning Musashi Miyamoto, 1955’s Duel at Ichijoji Temple, and 1956’s Duel at Ganryu Island—Inagaki created a passionate epic that’s equal parts tender love story and bloody action.

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A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu (Late Spring). The film, which follows an aging couple as they leave their rural village to visit their two married children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu (There Was a Father) and Setsuko Hara (Late Autumn), Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring themes of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces.

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Two medieval misfits help a beaten Japanese warlord and his princess escape with the royal gold. Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Manufacturer: The Weinstein Company Brand: iNetVideo

One of the most accomplished action-thrillers to emerge in the last decade, Kill Zone features an all-star cast including Donnie Yen, Sammo Hung and Simon Yam in a compelling thrill-ride where two veteran detectives rage war against a secret criminal empire.

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Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the dream of starting a new life. It s a story that happens every day, but until Gregory Nava's groundbreaking El Norte (The North), the personal travails of immigrants crossing the border to America had never been shown in the movies with such urgent humanism. A work of social realism imbued with dreamlike imagery, El Norte is a lovingly rendered, heartbreaking story of hope and survival, which critic Roger Ebert called a Grapes of Wrath for our time. DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New, restored high-definition digital transfer supervised and approved by director Gregory Nava New audio commentary featuring Nava In the Service of the Shadows: The Making of El Norte: a new video program featuring interviews with Nava, producer and cowriter Anna Thomas, actors Zaide Silvia Gutiérrez and David Villalpando, and set designer David Wasco Wall of Silence, a new short documentary by Nava and Barbara Martinez Jitner, concerning the building of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border The Journal of Diego Rodriguez Silva, the 1972 award-winning student film by Nava Gallery of Chipas location-scouting photographs Theatrical trailer New and improved English subtitle translation PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by novelist Héctor Tobar and Roger Ebert's 1983 review of the film The audience for El Norte splits into two factions. Th...

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