SNAKE WOMAN’S CURSEFrom Nobuo Nakagawa, the acclaimed director of Jigoku and the father of the Japanese horror film, comes a chilling tale of revenge from beyond the grave, fully uncut and newly re-mastered. Never before released on video in the U.S., this sumptuous tale of a calamity of snakes is sure to satisfy fans of classic Japanese cinema and horror tales alike. Chobei, the wealthy landlord of a rural village, incurs a ghostly wrath after he causes the death of a poor farmer living on his land. One day, after forcing the man’s wife and beautiful daughter to work as servants in his household, he kills a snake that the farmer’s wife had tried to protect, and finds himself slowly going mad, glimpsing rotting corpses and deathly spirits all around him. Even his son Takeo cannot escape, and begins to notice that his new bride has certain peculiar characteristics…like scales and green skin! Can Chobei set things right before the spirits of the dead come to claim him and fulfill the promise of the Snake Woman’s Curse?
-New, fully restored anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) transfer mastered in High Definition
-Japanese language with newly-translated, removable English subtitles
-Audio commentary by Japanese film scholar Jonathan Hall
-Original Japanese theatrical trailer
-Nobuo Nakagawa biography and poster gallery
-Reversible cover with original Japanese poster artwork
HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN
Cult film fans around the world can finally rejoice, for the greatest hidden treasure of cult cinema is coming in a fully uncut, completely re-mastered edition. Director Teruo Ishii’s astonishing Horrors of Malformed Men, long suppressed in its home country, is making its worldwide home video debut in a supplement-laden DVD from Synapse Films. After escaping from an asylum, young medical student Hirosuke assumes the identity of a dead man in order to solve the mystery of a weird doppleganger whose picture he sees in the newspaper. Traveling to faraway Panorama Island, he discovers a mad scientist surgically remaking normal human beings into misshapen monsters…but that is only the beginning. Hirosuke soon learns the horrible truth about the island and his own family’s shameful past, and finds himself plunged into the depths of incest, murder, and madness.
“HORRORS” SPECIAL FEATURES:
-New, fully restored anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) transfer mastered in High Definition
-Japanese language with newly-translated, removable English subtitles
-Audio commentary by film critic and 2003 Ishii retrospective programmer Mark Schilling
-New documentary featurette on the film, featuring interviews with cult film directors and Ishii fans Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man) and Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler)
-Ishii’s video introduction from the 2003 Far East Film Festival
-Original Japanese theatrical trailer
-Teruo Ishii and Edogawa Rampo biographies, plus poster galleries
-Reversible cover with original Japanese poster artwork
DISTRIBUTOR PRE-ORDER CUT OFF: AUGUST 3, 2007
STREET DATE: AUGUST 28, 2007
2 comments:
very nice. would like to see proper QT trailers online for them...
btw, they're listed on amazon.com already, but they dont turn up when you search for stuff in the japanese language - they do appear when you search horror listings though - you might want to talk to them about that... :)
logboy
Yep... I was already on it a few days ago. When you submit changes or alterations to AMAZON.COM, it can take up to a week for them to get around to it. The language has been changed to Japanese, etc. I'm just waiting for them to put up my changes and updates (getting the corrections up on AMAZON is always a bit of a bitch).
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