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S E A R C H D V D B e a v e r |
(also know as
'Дерсу Узала')A few months after his notorious suicide attempt,
Japanese filmmaker
Akira Kurosawa was regenerated by the notion of
helming the first Russian/Japanese co-production. Co-scripted and
directed by
Kurosawa, Dersu Uzala is the story of an elderly
guide and Goldi hunter (Maxim Munzuk), who, at the turn of the century,
agrees to shepherd a Russian explorer (Yuri Solomin) and a troop of
soldiers through the most treacherous passages of the Far East. The
guide has been "one" with the land almost from birth, and is thus able
to save his party from perishing. Four years in the making, Dersu Uzala
won the 1976 Best Foreign Film Oscar and restored the flagging Akira
Kurosawa to the top ranks of the Japanese film industry. *** Dersu Uzala is told through the eyes of a
Russian topographer, Captain Arseniev (Yuri Solomin), who leads a
military expedition in 1902 to map the Ussuri region of Siberia, near
the border of China. One night, their camp is stumbled upon by a squat,
comical hunter, Dersu Uzala (Maksim Munzuk), a superstitious
member of the Goldi people, a vestige of the region's more primitive
inhabitants. At first, the soldiers scoff at Dersu's peculiar habits:
conversing with a crackling fire, reading footprints in uncanny detail,
insisting they leave a store of supplies behind when they depart from a
vacant shack (so the next inhabitant will have food and fire). |
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Release Date: July 1975 (Moscow Film Festival)
Image Entertainment NTSC Region 0 vs. Spectrum Region 3 (3 Discs)
DVD Box Covers | ||
Distribution | Image
Entertainment - Kino Region 0 NTSC |
Spectrum
- 3 Discs
Region 3/6 encoded |
Runtime | 2:23:30 min | 2:15:30 / American Version - 2:21min |
Video | Original
Aspect Ratio, 2.35:1 Letterboxed WideScreen Average Bitrate: 6.43 mb/s NTSC 704x480 29.97 f/s |
2.20:1
widescreen Anamorphic versions on Disc 1 + 2 , a
2.35:1
Letterboxed WideScreen version on
Disc 3. Average Bitrate: 6.33 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s |
Audio | Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono) |
Russian Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Subtitles | English or none | Korean, Russian, English or none |
Features |
Edition Details:
• All Regions
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Disc 1: Movie (original version), part one
Special features:
Disc 2: Movie, part two
(same audio and subtitle options)
Special Features
Length of movie (Part 1 - Disc 1 ): 1 hour, 7.5
minutes
Length of movie (Part 2 - Disc 2 ): 1 hour, 8 minutes _____________________________
Disc 3: American Version of the Film - Widescreen 2.35:1
(no special features)
Length of movie: 2 hours, 21 minutes
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Alternate Version |
NOTE: there is also another DVD version of this film from RusCiCo, The Russian Cinema Council: Click to access
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Audio: Russian, English, French Subtitles: Russian, English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, Japanese, Herbew, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic Special Features:
NOTE: the first two discs are exactly the same as the Korean, except added subtitles. |
DVD Release Date:
May 23, 2002 Keep Case Chapters: 27 |
DVD Release Date:
September 3, 2002 Keep Case Disc 1 + 2 - 22 Chapters: Disc 3 - 10 Chapters |
Comments: |
Image and Spectrum 3rd disc ( American version) are just about identical. Disc 1 is cropped slightly (2.35 to 2.20), although I think it may be the brightest image quality.
Look at the clipping in the white snow ( captures #3, #4) in the Korean Disc 1 image (bottom pictures)! They nuked all detail in their effort to make the snow appear more white. For shame.
I would buy the Image disc although the Spectrum has better extras, it has correct aspect ratio, colors and framing to my eye. Unfortunately all image discs are video-sourced.
Note: The Spectrum Disc One has an extremely bad shimmering problem.
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NOTE: R3 details and screen caps courtesy of Kevin Parent
Recommended Reading for Japanese Film Fans (CLICK COVERS or TITLES for more information)
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The Japan Journals : 1947-2004, by Donald Richie |
The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film by Tom Mes and Jasper Sharp |
Kon Ichikawa (Cinematheque Ontario Monographs) by James Quandt, Cinematheque Ontario |
Shohei Imamura (Cinematheque
Ontario Monographs, No. 1) by James Quandt |
Eros Plus Massacre: An
Introduction to the Japanese New Wave Cinema
(Midland Book, Mb 469) by David Desser |
The Films of Akira Kurosawa by Donald Ritchie |
Ozu by Donald Ritchie |
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film by Donald Richie |
Check out more in "The Library"
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DVD Box Covers | ||
Distribution | Image
Entertainment - Kino Region 0 NTSC |
Spectrum
- 3 Discs
Region 3/6 encoded |
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