Features

New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by filmmaker, critic, and festival programmer Tony Rayns. Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director (1975), a comprehensive, 150-minute documentary by filmmaker Kaneto Shindo, with new and improved subtitles. Two Worlds Intertwined, a new, 14-minute appreciation of Ugetsu by director Masahiro Shinoda. Process and Production, a new 20-minute video interview with Tokuzo Tanaka, first assistant director on Ugetsu. Ten-minute video interview with cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa, from 1992. Theatrical trailers. New and improved English subtitle translation. A 72-page book featuring film critic Phillip Lopate and three short stories that influenced Mizoguchi in making the film.

Scene Index

Disc #1 -- Ugetsu
1. Credits [2:45]
2. Great Opportunities [5:16]
3. A Wife's Concern [4:53]
4. The Villagers Flee [7:08]
5. Genjuro Returns [3:13]
6. Omen [6:18]
7. The Marketplace [:02]
8. Attack [3:42]
9. Delivery to Kutsuki Mansion [3:09]
10. Lady Wakasa [6:02]
11. Seduction [5:41]
12. A Day at the Spring [6:23]
13. Miyagi [2:41]
14. A Samurai at Last [3:29]
15. Ohama's New Life [4:21]
16. The Priest's Warning [4:52]
17. Exorcism [3:15]
18. Reunion [9:30]
19. Awakening [7:41]
20. Color Bars [6:23]
Disc #2 -- Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1. In Search of the Director [4:00]
2. Women [1:46]
3. Early Years [6:11]
4. A Career in Cinema [9:32]
5. Kyoto [6:53]
6. Marriage [5:23]
7. Meiji-Period Films [7:57]
8. Daiichi/Osaka Elegy [5:42]
9. Sisters of the Gion [5:28]
10. The Straits of Love and Hate [2:11]
11. The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum [10:13]
12. A Woman of Osaka [4:09]
13. The Life of an Actor [2:22]
14. The 47 Ronin [3:22]
15. Illness [:05]
16. Break With the Past [7:08]
17. A Picture of Madame Yuki/Miss Oyu [5:52]
18. The Life of Oharu [5:18]
19. Ugetsu [5:24]
20. A Geisha/Sansho the Bailiff [8:43]
21. The Crucified Woman/A Story From Chikamatsu [2:01]
22. The Princess Yang Kwei-Fei [6:13]
23. Street of Shame [9:21]
24. Venice Film Festival [3:12]
25. The Love of His Life [2:03]
26. Reflections [10:48]