Plot Summary

SPECIAL FEATURES: 

• New, restored high-definition digital transfer
• Audio commentary by Japanese - literature professor Jeffrey Angles
• New video interviews with critic Tadao Sato, assistant director Tokugo Tanaka, and legendary actress Kyoko Kagawa on the making of the film and its lasting importance
• New and improved English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A book featuring a new essay by scholar Mark Le Fanu; the story on which the film was based, Mori Ogai's "Sansho dayu," from 1915, in an acclaimed translation by J. Thomas Rimer; and a written form of an oral variation of the same tale, dating back to the fifteenth century, in a rare English translation