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Pale flower [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Masahiro Shinoda.

Criterion Collection, 2011.

Yakuza -- Drama.

Gambling -- Drama.

Criterion collection ; 564.

Alternate title:

Kawaita hana [videorecording (DVD)]

[videorecording (DVD)] /

1 videodisc (96 min.) : Dolby digital mono. sd., b&w ; 12 cm.

Based on a story by Shintaro Ishihara.

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1964.

Special edition features: New high-definition digital restoration ; new video interview with the director ; selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, co-producer of Music for the movies: Toru Takemitsu ; original theatrical trailer ; new and improved English subtitle translation ; PLUS: a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chuck Stephens.

In Japanese with optional English subtitles.

Director, Masahiro Shinoda ; producers, Masao Shirai, Shigeru Wakatsuki ; screenplay, Ataru Baba, Masahiro Shinoda ; cinematography, Masao Kosugi ; music, Toru Takemitsu, Yuji Takahashi.

Ryo Ikebe, Mariko Kaga, Takashi Fujiki and Chisako Hara with Naoki Sugiura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Eijiro Tono, Shinichiro Mikami, Koji Nakahara and Isao Sasaki.

"In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dreamlike score by Toru Takemitsu (Woman In The Dunes, Ran), this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda (Samurai Spy, Double Suicide) announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld."--Container.

Japanese films.

Gangster films.

Thriller films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Ishihara, Shintarō, 1932- Kawaita hana.

Shinoda, Masahiro, 1931-

Ikebe, Ryō, 1918-2010.

Kaga, Mariko, 1943-

Fujiki, Takashi, 1940-

Hara, Chisako, 1936-

Criterion Collection (Firm)

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