After Life
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2021]
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Description: 1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (12 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 72 x 17 cm, folded to 17 x 12).
"If you could choose only one memory to hold on to for eternity, what would it be? That's the question at the heart of Hirokazu Kore-eda's revelatory international breakthrough, a bittersweet fantasia in which the recently deceased find themselves in a limbo where they must select a single cherished moment from their life to be recreated on film for them to take into the next world. After Life's high-concept premise is grounded in Kore-eda's documentary-like approach to the material, which he shaped through interviews with hundreds of Japanese citizens. What emerges is a panoramic vision of the human experience--its ephemeral joys and lingering regrets--and a quietly profound meditation on memory, our interconnectedness, and the amberlike power of cinema to freeze time"--Container.
Series: Criterion collection ; 1089.
Other Authors:
Sato, Shiho, film producer.
Akieda, Masayuki, film producer.
Koreeda, Hirokazu, 1962- film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
Iura, Arata, 1974- actor.
Oda, Erika, actor.
Terajima, Susumu, actor.
Naitō, Takashi, 1955- actor.
Tani, Kei, 1932-2010, actor.
Yuri, Tōru, 1921-1999, actor.
Yamazaki, Yutaka, 1940- director of photography.
Sukita, Masayoshi, director of photography.
Kasamatsu, Yasuhiro, 1960- composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Sato, Shiho, film producer.
Akieda, Masayuki, film producer.
Koreeda, Hirokazu, 1962- film director, screenwriter, editor of moving image work.
Iura, Arata, 1974- actor.
Oda, Erika, actor.
Terajima, Susumu, actor.
Naitō, Takashi, 1955- actor.
Tani, Kei, 1932-2010, actor.
Yuri, Tōru, 1921-1999, actor.
Yamazaki, Yutaka, 1940- director of photography.
Sukita, Masayoshi, director of photography.
Kasamatsu, Yasuhiro, 1960- composer (expression)
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
ISBN:
9781681438658
UPC: 715515262910
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BD FOREIGN After | Main (Downtown) | First Level, Blu-ray Disc | In |
Title from screen credits.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Horokazu Kore-eda; New audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich; New interviews with Kore-eda and cinematographers Masayoshi Sukita and Yutaka Yamazaki; Deleted scenes; Trailer; An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Blu-ray disc.
Producers, Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda ; directors of photography, Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita ; original music, Yasuhiro Kasamatsu.
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitō, Kei Tani, Toru Yuri, Kazoko Shirakawa.
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural.
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.
Wide screen (1.66:1).
Features: New 2K digital restoration, approved by writer-director Horokazu Kore-eda; New audio commentary featuring film scholar Linda C. Ehrlich; New interviews with Kore-eda and cinematographers Masayoshi Sukita and Yutaka Yamazaki; Deleted scenes; Trailer; An essay by novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Blu-ray disc.
Producers, Shiho Sato, Masayuki Akieda ; directors of photography, Yutaka Yamazaki, Masayoshi Sukita ; original music, Yasuhiro Kasamatsu.
Arata, Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima, Takashi Naitō, Kei Tani, Toru Yuri, Kazoko Shirakawa.
Blu-ray, region A; wide screen (1.66:1 aspect ratio); uncompressed monaural.
Japanese dialogue with optional English subtitles.