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Just saw it at the barbican cinema, london, uk. the live musical accompaniment by In The Nursery. What a great film, what a great new score.
It definitely does NOT exist on dvd, not as an official release anyway.
I was told by the chap selling the CDs of the new In the Nursery score that the BFI were planning on releasing the film on DVD but couldn't get the current copyright holder to agree...which is a real shame.
shareYou can get one here...
http://shop.vendio.com/cindysboots/item/805166191/index.html
It's not an official release, but it's better than not ever seeing it.
It's available on VHS from Facets in Chicago (www.facets.org). I can't vouch either way for the film quality.
You could also ask the people at Matsuda Film Productions, which is probably the preeminent source of silents in Japan (they have an English website: http://www.matsudafilm.com/index_e.html). If it's available, it will likely be on VHS (Japanese VHS *is* playable in the US) and without English intertitles (which I'm told you really don't need for this movie).
Seen the VHS. It looks awful, but then there is no other choice.
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If anyone's still following this: Aaron Gerow, a prof of Japanese cinema and literature at Yale, has a note on his website that "a colleague informs me that a DVD of the film will finally be released in 2009." He's seen several versions of it, has written about it, and is in a position to know.
I certainly hope he's right...
excellent! thanks for the info
my ymdb page: http://www.shompy.com/steppenwolf/l42849_ukuk.html
Another update from Aaron Gerow:
There was talk about releasing a DVD in Japan in 2009, but the recent news I have heard will push back any release into late 2010 at the earliest. Let's cross our fingers!http://www.aarongerow.com/books/
if the print is any good it will see it's way over the pacific ocean. This is what inveitably happened with Teshigahara, Ozu, all sorts of others. Boutique dvd labels have their fingers on the global pulse.
"He was pink and white, and all the colours you'll never see."
Oh, I'm sure there's a good chance of that; although some Japanese films that only make it to French, there's a large (= HUGE) English-language contingent that's been waiting for this for years. I'm just thinking about how much longer it will take for the translation to happen...
shareTranslation is not a problem. There will be subtitles existence for the intertiles all over the place, including online at freesubtitles.org (think thats the name of the site). I think it's all to do with rights to the print.
"He was pink and white, and all the colours you'll never see."
5 years now since the last post in this thread, but I haven't heard anything about a DVD release ever. Maybe it never happened. The 1975 version with Kinugasa's added music resides at the George Eastman House, and that's available on DVD-R, but IMDb lists a 2007 restored edition at 78' (the original 1926 showing time is 70'; either more footage was found that wasn't even in the original release or the speed has been slowed down). This restored edition has played at various film festivals since then, but why not a DVD release? It's certainly a worthy film to be spread wide like that - you would think even Criterion or Eureka or Second Run would release it - one of those fancy art-house labels, but nothing. :(
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