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(aka "Mizu de kakareta monogatari" or "A Story Written with Water")
Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Japan 1965
From one of the leading lights of the Japanese New Wave, Kiju Yoshida (Eros + Massacre) broke with studio filmmaking for A Story Written With Water, his first independent production and the start of his signature style. Telling the story of a man torn between his fiancée and the familial bond of his mother, Yoshida creates a dazzling narrative that uses flashbacks to tell its story of obsession and desire. With the luminous Mariko Okada as the mother, the celebrated star of such masterpieces as Floating Clouds and Late Autumn, she would become Yoshida’s muse across a series of the director’s ‘anti-melodramas’. Yoshida's singular visual flair and revolutionary exploration of film codes place him as one of the finest Japanese filmmakers of the postwar period, Radiance Films is proud to present A Story Written With Water on Blu-ray for the first time in the world. *** A young man who's about to marry is torn between his fiancée and the love for his mother. His past, dreams and desires unfold simultaneously. |
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Theatrical Release: November 23rd, 1965
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Runtime | 2:00:10.161 | |
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2.35 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,221,969,314 bytesFeature: 35,093,259,264 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.87 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video |
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LPCM Audio Japanese 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit |
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Subtitles | English, None | |
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Release Information: Studio: Radiance Films
2.35 :1 1080P Dual-layered Blu-rayDisc Size: 42,221,969,314 bytesFeature: 35,093,259,264 bytes Video Bitrate: 34.87 MbpsCodec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Edition Details: • New interview with star Mariko Okada (2023 - 11:33)• Archival interview with director Kiju Yoshida (2008) (2:46) • Interview with scholar Jennifer Coates, author of Making Icons: Repetition and the Female Image in Japanese Cinema, 1945-1964 (2023 - 21:42) • Trailer (3:25) Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by scholar and author Alexander Jacoby Single pressing of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
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Radiance Films use a linear PCM mono track (24-bit) in the
original Japanese language. A Story Written with Water
has very little aggression (a car accident) and the audio is
authentically flat with consistent dialogue. The score was by Toshi
Ichiyanagi (Hiroshi Teshigahara's
Pitfall,
Eros
+ Massacre), adding occasional uniqueness
via the uncompressed transfer. Radiance Films offer optional English
subtitles on their Region 'B'
Blu-ray.
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This was the most screen captures I have
done for a single film in memory. I watched Yoshishige Yoshida's A
Story Written with Water last night and it may have the best mise en
scène that I can recall in years. I was reminded of the cinema of
Michelangelo Antonioni and the austere black and white aesthetic
of Resnais'
Last Night at Marienbad. It also evoked
Mikio Naruse's
When a Woman Ascends the Stars and Masahiro Shinoda's
Double Suicide (how about those on
Blu-ray
someone!) Gorgeous unique, often daring, cinematographic angles,
positioning and framing are constant throughout. While there are no
explicit visuals - it does show subtle sensual intimacy and sensitively
realized sexuality with the film's theme that involves an incestuous desire
between mother and son. It has a very artistic grounding with a non-linear
flashbacks that dart around - often indicated by either a passing train
or a rotating skyward sequence that borders on... dizzying. A Story
Written with Water would be considered slow cinema by some but I
would have enjoyed it at twice the 2-hour length. Huge kudos to Radiance Films
for bringing this
Japanese New Wave masterwork to Blu-ray |
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