Blu-ray, DVD Release: Japón

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Laurence
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Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 26, 2019
Price: DVD $20.67, Blu-ray $27.37
Studio: Criterion

In the 2002 Mexican drama Japón, a preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires.
Recruiting a cast of non-actors and filming in sublime 16mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican countryside with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable.
A work of soaring ambition and startling visual poetry, Japón is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director.
Criterion’s new editions of the movie contain the following:
* New 2K digital restoration, supervised by director Carlos Reygadas, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* New conversation between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante
* Video diary shot by actor Alejandro Ferretis during the film’s production
* Maxhumain, a short film directed by Reygadas in 1999
* Deleted scene
* Trailer
* A new essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli
Buy or Rent Japón

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.