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SPECIAL FEATURES:
- 2 x disc special edition containing new film restorations of both Chikamatsu Monogatari and Uwasa no Onna.
- New, officially licensed, restored high-definition transfers from Kadokawa Pictures, Japan.
- New and improved English subtitles (optional).
- Video discussions about both Chikamatsu Monogatari and Uwasa no Onna by acclaimed Japanese film expert/critic, festival programmer, and filmmaker Tony Rayns.
- Archival Japanese teasers and trailers for both films, subtitled in English for the first time.
- Full color reversible sleeve with reproductions of the original Japanese posters for both films.
- Lavish 56-page book featuring writing by Keiko I. McDonald (author of Mizoguchi) and Mark Le Fanu (author of Mizoguchi and Japan), as well as extracts from Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s The Almanac of Love and Ihara Saikaku’s What the Seasons Brought to the Almanac-Maker, texts adapted by Mizoguchi in Chikamatsu Monogatari.
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