Eye For Film >> Movies >> Vengeance Is Mine (1979) DVD Review
This DVD, from Eureka's The Masters Of Cinema Series, is a (very crisp) newly restored high-definition anamorphic transfer of Vengeance Is Mine, released for the first time for the UK home video market. There are optional English subtitles with a new translation.
Alex Cox's introduction (6min) covers Imamura's "improper vision" of Japan, his past as a blackmarketeer, the film's Old Testament title and its mysterious ending, while the full audio commentary by Asian film expert Tony Rayns is full of insights into Imamura's style and background.
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Best of all is the 36-page accompanying booklet, featuring an essay by Jasper Sharp that contextualises the film within Imamura's career and oeuvre, another by Alistair Phillips that focuses on Imamura's cinematography and mise-en-scène, and reprints from the 1979 Japanese and international press packages, including a succinct statement from Imamura himself, and some particularly lurid publicity stills.
Reviewed on: 29 Oct 2005