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DVD002445

Jirokichi The Rat

Itô, Daisuke

Digital Meme, 2008

Description:

DVD - Region free.   viewing copy.   1 videodisc of 1.
b/w.   fullscreen.   sound - Dolby digital monaural.  

Notes:

Supplemental materials: video commentary by Tadao Sato; introduction of the films’ highlights and insight by benshi narrator Midori Sawato.

Titles

+ Yaji And Kita: Yasuda’s Rescue

Alternate Title:

Yaji And Kita: Chapter On Royalism; Yajikita Son’Nô No Maki

Director:

Ikeda, Tomiyasu

Production Co:

Nikkatsu

Running Time:

Short.   15 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1927

Language:

Japanese with optional English, Chinese or Korean subtitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Featuring a “benshi” narration track. A slapstick comedy in which the bumbling Kita is arrested for singing an insulting children’s song, and protesting the arrest gets his friend Yaji arrested as well. Original language title: YAJIKITA SON’Nô NO MAKI.

+ Yaji And Kita: The Battle Of Toba Fushimi

Director:

Ikeda, Tomiyasu

Production Co:

Nikkatsu

Running Time:

Short.   8 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1928

Language:

Japanese with optional English, Chinese or Korean subtitles

Genre:

Comedy, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Featuring a “benshi” narration track. Yaji and Kita fight for the Imperial Army. Original language title: YAJIKITA TOBA FUSHIMI NO MAKI.

+ Jirokichi The Rat

Alternate Title:

Oatsurae Jirokichi Koshi

Director:

Itô, Daisuke

Production Co:

Nikkatsu

Running Time:

Feature.   61 minutes

Sound:

sound - Dolby digital monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Japan

Year:

1931

Language:

Japanese with optional Chinese, English or Korean subtitles

Genre:

Drama - Historical, Martial Arts, Action Adventure, Silent Cinema

Notes:

Featuring a “benshi” narration track. Original language title: OATSURAE JIROKICHI KOSHI. Supplemental materials: video commentary by Tadao Sato; introduction of the films’ highlights and insight by benshi narrator Midori Sawato. Also includes: YAJI AND KITA: YASUDA’S RESCUE (Tomiyasu Ikeda, 1927, 15 minutes); YAJI AND KITA: THE BATTLE OF TOBA FUSHIMI (Ikeda, 1928, 8 minutes).

Link to:

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