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The funeral / director, Juzo Itami.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: CC3358DDVD | The Criterion CollectionCC3358D | The Criterion CollectionLanguage: Japanese Original language: Japanese Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 1125.Publisher: [New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2022]Description: 1 videodisc (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781681439372
  • 1681439379
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Producer, Yasushi Tamaoki and Yutaka Okada ; cinematography by Yonezo Maeda ; edited by Akira Suzuki ; music by Joji Yuasa.
Cast: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai.Summary: In the wake of her father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest, and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits.
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In the wake of her father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest, and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits.

Full screen 1.33:1.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1987.

Special edition features: High-definition digital restoration; New interview with actors Nobuko Miyamoto and Manpei Ikeuchi; Creative marriages: Juzo Itami & Nobuko Miyamoto, a short program produced by the Criterion Channel; Commercials for Ichiroku Tart by director Juzo Itami; Trailers.

Producer, Yasushi Tamaoki and Yutaka Okada ; cinematography by Yonezo Maeda ; edited by Akira Suzuki ; music by Joji Yuasa.

Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai.

In the wake of her father's sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami's wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her lascivious husband leave Tokyo and return to her family home to oversee a traditional funeral. Over three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest, and cinema's most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits.

DVD; Dolby monaural; full screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio); region 1.

Japanese dialogue; English subtitles.

Title from disc surface.

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