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The lower depths [videorecording (DVD)].

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Criterion Collection, c2004.

Social classes -- Drama.

Classes sociales -- Films.

France -- Social life and customs -- Drama.

Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1600-1868 -- Drama.

France -- Mœurs et coutumes -- Films.

Japon -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 1600-1868 -- Films.

Video Difference legacy collection.

Alternate title:

Donzoko [videorecording (DVD)]

Les bas-fonds [videorecording (DVD)].

[videorecording (DVD)].

2 videodiscs (218 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on the play "Na dne" by Maxim Gorky.

Les bas-fonds was originally released as a motion picture in 1936; Donzoko in 1957.

Special features (Disc 1): Les Bas-fonds: New digital transfer with restored image and sound ; introduction to the film by Jean Renoir ; a new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French films 1924-1939.

Special features (Disc 2): Donzoko: New high definition ; digital transfer with restored image and sound ; audio commentary featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie, author of A hundred years of Japanese film ; a 33-minute documentary on The lower depths from the series Akira Kurosawa: It is wonderful to create, including interviews with Kurosawa, actress Kyoko Kagawa, art director Yoshiro Muraki, and others ; cast biographies by Stephen Price, author of The warriors camera: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa ; plus: A new essay by authors Keiko McDonald (From book to screen: modern Japanese literature in films) and Thomas Rimer (A reader's guide to Japanese literature).

Les bas-fonds: in French with optional English subtitles. Donzoko: in Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Disc 1. Les bas-fonds / directed by Jean Renoir (1936) -- Disc 2 Donzoko / directed by Akira Kurosawa (1957).

Les films Alkam présentent ; une production Albatros ; un film de Jean Renoir ; scénario de E. Zamiatine et J. Companeez ; adaptation et dialogues de Jean Renoir et Charles Spark ; The lower depths = Donzoko Toho Company, Ltd. ; produced by Akira Kurosawa ; screenplay by Hideo Oguni and Akira Kurosawa ; directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Les bas-fonds: Jean Gabin, Louis Jouvet, Jany Holt, Junie Astor, Vladimir Sokoloff.

Donzoko: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Kyōko Kagawa, Ganjirō Nakamura, Minoru Chiaki.

"Jean Renoir and Akira Kurosawa, two of cinema's greatest directors, transform Maxim Gorky's classic proletariat play The Lower Depths in their own ways for their own times. Renoir, working amidst the rise of Hitler and the Popular Front in France, had need to take license with the dark nature of Gorky's source material, softening its bleak outlook. Kurosawa, firmly situated in the postwar world, found little reason for hope. He remained faithful to the original with its focus on the conflict between illusion and reality - a theme he would return to over and over again. Working with their most celebrated actors (Gabin with Renoir; Mifune with Kurosawa), each film offers a unique look at cinematic adaptation - where social conditions and filmmaking style converge to create unique masterpieces."--Container.

Japanese films.

Films français.

Films japonais.

Films criminels.

Films d'époque.

Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936. Na dne. English.

Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.

Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.

Gabin, Jean, 1904-1976.

Holt, Jany, 1912-2005.

Astor, Junie, 1912-1967.

Sokoloff, Vladimir, 1889-1962.

Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.

Yamada, Isuzu, 1917-

Kagawa, Kyōko.

Nakamura, Ganjirō, 1902-1983.

Chiaki, Minoru, 1917-1999.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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