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48-473: With a runtime of 144 minutes, Early Spring is Ozu's longest surviving film, and his penultimate shot in black and white. Office worker Shoji Sugiyama ( Ryō Ikebe ) wakes and goes about his morning routine, attended by his wife, Masako ( Chikage Awashima ), before commuting to his job in the Tokyo office of a fire brick manufacturing company. During a hiking trip with office friends, Shoji spends time alone with

96-515: A blog post that it was "trying to find ways we can bring our library and original content back to the digital space as soon as possible". A month later, Criterion announced their own standalone subscription service, The Criterion Channel available to subscribers in the United States and Canada. The service began on April 8, 2019. The Channel's offerings include rotating playlists, temporarily licensed films (and some television offerings) from

144-578: A distribution deal with SDS to handle the physical distribution of titles from Sony Pictures ( Columbia Pictures , TriStar Pictures , Screen Gems , Crunchyroll, LLC , etc.) as well as Criterion, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment ( Walt Disney Pictures , Marvel Studios , Lucasfilm Ltd. , 20th Century Studios , etc.) and Lionsgate Home Entertainment ( Lionsgate Films , Summit Entertainment , eOne Films , Roadside Attractions , etc.) through their existing distribution deals with SPHE. In 1986, Charles Benton founded Home Vision Entertainment (HVE),

192-488: A fellow worker, a typist nicknamed "Goldfish" for her large eyes ( Keiko Kishi ). After the trip Goldfish makes advances to Shoji and the two begin an affair. Masako suspects something is amiss but is reluctant to confront her husband. After Shoji fails to mark the anniversary of their son's death, he and Masako become progressively estranged. Their friends, too, suspect something is transpiring between Shoji and Goldfish. They confront Goldfish, advising her not to come between

240-499: A film streaming service from Turner Classic Movies , succeeded Hulu as the exclusive streaming service for the Criterion Collection. Some Criterion films were streamed by Kanopy . On October 26, 2018, Warner Bros. Digital Networks and Turner announced that FilmStruck would shut down on November 29. Criterion stated in a blog post that it was "trying to find ways we can bring our library and original content back to

288-450: A married couple. Aggrieved, Goldfish visits Shoji late in the night. Masako, convinced that her suspicions have foundation, demands that Shoji tell her the truth about his relationship with Goldfish. Shoji still lies about it, and the next morning Masako leaves the marital home to stay with her mother. Shoji relocates to his company's office in the provincial town of Mitsuishi (now part of Bizen ). Masako eventually travels to Mitsuishi and

336-833: A mixture of NTSC-standard Region 0 (region-free) and Region 1 DVDs. Blu-ray discs are Region A -locked in North America or Region B -locked in the United Kingdom (though there are exceptions). However, when SPHE stopped distributing Criterion's releases in the UK, the distribution moved to Spirit Entertainment. On August 11, 2021, Criterion announced that it would begin publishing titles in Ultra HD Blu-ray format in November 2021. All Criterion Ultra HD Blu-ray releases will include both an Ultra HD Blu-ray copy and

384-634: A picture a year since the end of the Second World War. In the meantime, the "Ofuna-cho" or "home drama", the genre of film with which Ozu was most closely associated, had decreased in popularity. Ozu maintained that "the traditions of the Ofuna-cho are the result of 30 years. They are not going to fall in one morning". Nevertheless, under pressure from his studio, Ozu made several concessions to modernity. He cast mostly young and popular actors, and, with long-time collaborator Kōgo Noda , delivered

432-524: A regular Blu-ray copy of a film (with all the special features on the regular Blu-ray), with select releases including Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos . The first such releases were announced on August 16 for a November 21 release: Citizen Kane (#1104, returning to the collection for the first time since 1992), Mulholland Drive and Menace II Society . The company also released The Red Shoes , A Hard Day's Night and The Piano on Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. The film Uncut Gems (#1101), which

480-435: A script devoid of the dominant parental figures that were a fixture of his previous films. The theme of communication problems between generations, another familiar trope of Ozu's work, was also absent. In its place was the theme of disillusionment with life as a salaryman. "I wanted to have a go at representing their lifestyle," said Ozu. "The thrill and aspirations one feels as a fresh graduate entering society gradually wane as

528-668: Is different from Wikidata Articles with hCards Articles containing Japanese-language text Articles with Japanese-language sources (ja) The Criterion Collection The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion ) is an American home-video distribution company that focuses on licensing, restoring and distributing "important classic and contemporary films". A de facto subsidiary of arthouse film distributor Janus Films , Criterion serves film and media scholars, cinephiles and public and academic libraries. Criterion has helped to standardize certain aspects of home-video releases such as film restoration ,

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576-645: The Chicago Reader called the film a "casual yet meticulously detailed reconstruction of Japan's routinized white-collar milieu". Despite the praise, it is not one of Ozu's most renowned works. In 2007, The Criterion Collection released the film as part of the DVD box set Eclipse Series 3: Late Ozu . In 2012, the BFI released the film on Region 2 DVD, along with Tokyo Twilight and Woman of Tokyo , as Three Melodramas . Ry%C5%8D Ikebe From Misplaced Pages,

624-469: The Zatoichi boxset (spine #679), all future releases would be in dual format (DVD and Blu-ray packaged together) rather than as individual releases. This decision also applied to most upgrade re-releases introduced after November 2013. After customer feedback revealed some reluctance to this approach, All That Jazz (#724) became the last chronological spine number released as a dual-format edition, and

672-521: The HD format wars between Blu-ray and HD DVD . Once Blu-ray had emerged as the industry-standard high-definition home-video format, Criterion began to release Blu-ray editions of select films from its collection, beginning with the Blu-ray release of Wong Kar-wai 's Chungking Express (#453; currently out of print) on December 16, 2008. In late 2013, Criterion announced that with the November release of

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768-859: The Library of Congress . The company later became known for pioneering the "special edition" DVD concept containing bonus materials such as trailers , commentaries, documentaries, alternate endings and deleted scenes . The success of these releases established the special-edition version in the DVD business. In 2006, taking advantage of advanced film-transfer and film-restoration technologies, Criterion published higher-quality versions, with bonus materials, of early catalog titles such as Amarcord (1973), Brazil (1985) and Seven Samurai (1954). Originally, Criterion released art, genre and mainstream movies on LaserDisc such as Halloween (1978), Ghostbusters (1984), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Armageddon (1998) and The Rock (1996). Increasingly,

816-586: The letterboxing format for widescreen films and the inclusion of bonus features such as scholarly essays and documentary content about the films and filmmakers. Criterion most notably pioneered the use of commentary tracks . Criterion has produced and distributed more than one thousand special editions of its films in VHS , Betamax , LaserDisc , DVD , Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray formats and box sets. These films and their special features are also available via The Criterion Channel, an online streaming service that

864-553: The Beast (1946), M (1931), The Wages of Fear (1953) and Seven Samurai (1954). As of October 2023, over 200 of the 384 titles from the List of Criterion Collection Laserdisc releases have been re-released. Another example is the film Charade (1963), which had become a public-domain property for lacking the legally-required copyright notice. Criterion produced a restored edition under license from Universal Pictures for

912-486: The Body Snatchers (1956), Criterion introduced the letterbox format, which added black bars to the top and bottom of the 4:3 standard television set in order to preserve the original aspect ratio of the film. Thereafter, Criterion made letterboxing the standard presentation for all its releases of films shot in widescreen aspect ratios. The Criterion Collection's second LaserDisc title, King Kong (1933),

960-459: The Criterion Collection company, which has a business partnership with Janus Films and had one with Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) until 2005, when Image Entertainment bought HVE. On November 4, 2013, it was announced that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment would handle distribution. In May 2024, Janus Films and Criterion were acquired by Steven Rales . On June 24, 2024, it was reported that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment had entered into

1008-503: The Criterion Collection has also focused on releasing world cinema , mainstream cinema classics and critically successful obscure films. Using the best available source materials, the company produced technologically improved and cleaner versions, such as those for The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), M (1931), Children of Paradise (1945), The Third Man (1949), Seven Samurai (1954) and Amarcord (1973). Almost every title contains film-cleaning and film-restoration essays in

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1056-514: The United Kingdom. The first six titles were released on April 18, 2016. The Criterion Collection video company pioneered the correct aspect-ratio letterboxing presentation of films, as well as commentary soundtracks, multi-disc sets, special editions and definitive versions. These ideas and the special features introduced by the Criterion Collection have been highly influential, and have become industry-wide standards for premium home video releases. With its eighth LaserDisc release, Invasion of

1104-3884: The White Serpent (白夫人の妖恋, Byaku fujin no yoren) (1956) - Xu Xian Kojinbutu no fufu (1956) Ani to sono musume (1956) - Kaisuke Mamiya Bôkyaku no hanabira (1957) Snow Country (雪国 Yukiguni) (1957) - Shimamura Bôkyaku no hanabira: Kanketsuhen (1957) Yuunagi (1957) - Kosuke Igawa Datsugokushû (1957) Shizukanaru otoko (1957) Ankoru watto monogatari utsukushiki aishu (1958) - Shun'ichi Kawai A Holiday in Tokyo (東京の休日, Tōkyō no kyūjitsu) (1958) - Senpai Yajikata dôchû sugoroku (1958) - Ryônosuke Taya Daigaku no ninkimono (1958) - Coach Urano Jinsei gekijô - Seishun hen (1958) Kodama wa yonde iru (1959) - Seizô Nabayama Tegami o kakeru (1959) Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender (潜水艦イ-57降伏せず, Sensuikan I-57 kofuku sezu) (1959) Anyakôro (1959) - Kensaku Tokito Oneechan makari tôru (1959) Battle in Outer Space (宇宙大戦争, Uchū daisensō) (1959) - Maj. Ichiro Katsumiya Kêisatsû-kan to bôryôku-dan (1959) Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi (1960) Man Against Man (1960) - Kikumori Sararîman Chûshingura (1960) - Takuni Asano Jiyûgaoka fujin (1960) Toiretto shacho (1961) Toilet buchô (1961) - Noboru Kasajima Kuroi gashû dainibu: Kanryû (1961) Kaei (1961) Gorath (妖星ゴラス, Yōsei Gorasu) (1962) - Dr. Tazawa - Astrophysicist Ika naru hoshi no moto ni (1962) - Kurahashi Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki (1962) - Chikara Tsuchiya Attack Squadron! (1963) Chintao yôsai bakugeki meirei (1963) Pale Flower (乾いた花, Kawaita hana) (1964) - Muraki Haigo no hito (1965) - Yoshio Shido Daikon to ninjin (1965) - Kotaki Oshaberi na shinju (1965) Kemonomichi (1965) - Shôjirô Kotaki Shôwa zankyô-den (1965) - Kazama Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi botan (1966) Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami (1966) Otoko dokyô de shobû (1966) Shôwa zankyô-den: Chizome no karajishi (1967) - Jûkichi Kazama Zankyô Abarehada (1967) - Kyohei Shigemasa San-nin no bakuto (1967) Otoko no shobu: kantô arashî (1967) Moeru kumo (1967) Ah kaiten tokubetsu kogetikai (1968) Rikugun chôhô 33 (1968) - Suharut Danan Gokuchu no kaoyaku (1968) Ah, yokaren (1968) - Staff Officer Matsumoto Shôwa zankyô-den: Karajishi jingi (1969) Chôkôsô no akebono (1969) Gendai yakuza: Yotamono jingi (1969) - Goro's elder brother Tosei-nin Retsuden (1969) Shushô jingi: O-inochi chôdai (1969) Showa zankyo-den: Hito-kiri karajishi (1969) Shôwa zankyô-den: Shinde moraimasu (1970) Nihon boryoku-dan: kumicho kuzure (1970) Battle of Okinawa (1971) Showa zankyo-den: hoero karajishi (1971) Showa zankyo-den: Yabure-gasa (1972) Hikage-mono (1972) Bokyo Komori-uta (1972) Chokugeki! Jigoku-ken (1974) - Arashiyama Chokugeki jigoku-ken: Dai-gyakuten (1974) - Arashiyama  kessen kôkûtai (1974) Saikai (1975) Hi no ataru sakamichi (1975) Kimi yo fundo no kawa wo watare (1976) - Ito The War in Space (惑星大戦争, Wakusei daisensō) (1977) - Professor Takigawa Tarao Bannai (1978) - Nobuyuki Kinomata Kaichô-on (1980) - Riichiro Ujima Station (駅 STATION, Eki Station) (1981) - Chief Nakagawa Shōsetsu Yoshida gakkō (小説吉田学校) (1983) - Taketora Ogata Izakaya Chôji (1983) - Horie The Audition (1984) - Shozo godai Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985) - Interrogator (segment "Runaway Horses") Hitohira no yuki (1985) Lost in

1152-862: The Wilderness (1986) - Sanada Umi e (1988) Aoi sanmyaku '88 (1988) - Zenbei Terazawa Television dramas [ edit ] Karei-naru Ichizoku (1974–75) - Shōichi Mikumo Sanga Moyu (1984) - Kenny Matsubara Dokuganryū Masamune (1987) - Sen no Rikyū References [ edit ] ^ "Ikebe Ryō" . Nihon jinmei daijiten (in Japanese). Kodansha . Retrieved 27 April 2010 . ^ "Actor Ryo Ikebe dies at 92" . Japan Times. Bibliography [ edit ] Shimura, Miyoko; Yumiketa, Aya, eds. (2007). Eiga haiyū Ikebe Ryō . Waizu Shuppan. ISBN   978-4-89830-207-1 . External links [ edit ] Ryo Ikebe at IMDb Ikebe Ryō at

1200-520: The booklets, while some even have featurettes comparing the restored and unrestored images. Some previously licensed Criterion Collection titles, such as The Harder They Come (1972), are now commercially unavailable as new product, and are only available in resale (used) form. Titles such as RoboCop (1987), Hard Boiled (1992), The Killer (1989) and Ran (1985) became unavailable when their publishing licenses expired or when Criterion published improved versions, such as those for Beauty and

1248-481: The brief foray into dual-format releases). Moreover, the company's standalone line of Eclipse releases are currently only made available in the standard DVD format. Aside from the core catalog, the company has also released films through its Essential Art House, Eclipse, Merchant Ivory and Janus Contemporaries lines, as well as a few releases outside of any product line. Many of these releases have also been collected and sold in various box sets. In early 2016 for

1296-493: The chapter-indexed commentaries are exclusive to the Criterion releases and their initial DVD reissues; they became collectors' items when the original studios reissued titles previously licensed to Criterion, regardless of whether new commentary tracks were produced. The Criterion Collection began in 1984 with the releases of Citizen Kane (1941) and King Kong (1933) on LaserDisc, the latter's source negatives courtesy of

1344-430: The company operates. The Criterion Collection is considered the leading boutique Blu-ray label . Their releases are currently distributed by Studio Distribution Services , a joint venture between Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment , via a distribution deal with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment , who released the company's content on home video from 2013 to 2024. The company

1392-415: The company's early titles ( The 39 Steps , The Lady Vanishes and The Third Man ) were also issued on VHS and Betamax. These were Criterion's only releases on those formats—other Janus/Criterion titles were often released to VHS through Home Vision Entertainment. Criterion entered the DVD market in 1998 with a reset numbering system, beginning with Seven Samurai , spine #2 ( Grand Illusion , #1,

1440-437: The couple is reunited. They promise to forget their past troubles and strive for marital happiness. After the release of Tokyo Story , Ozu was called upon to assist his friend, the actress Kinuyo Tanaka , in completing her second film as director, The Moon Has Risen . By the time production on Early Spring began, Ozu had been away from the director's chair for three years: a substantial hiatus for someone who had averaged

1488-489: The days go by. Even working diligently for thirty years doesn't amount to much." Early Spring makes use of temporal ellipses, gaps in the narrative into which the audience is invited to project meaning, which are common in Ozu's films. For example, after Shoji and Goldfish begin their fling we do not see them alone together until Goldfish visits Shoji's home. Since this is after the pair's friends have confronted Goldfish, we, like

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1536-457: The decision was reversed to release separate discs for titles beginning in September 2014. Despite the emergence of Blu-ray as the industry-standard high-definition format, Janus/Criterion continues to support the DVD format. Not only are all their new Blu-ray releases accompanied by a standard-definition DVD version, but revised and upgraded releases are also released on both formats (barring

1584-616: The digital space as soon as possible". On November 16, 2018, Criterion announced the launch of the Criterion Channel as a standalone service, wholly owned and operated by the Criterion Collection, in the United States and Canada. Some of the VOD service's offerings are also available on the Max streaming platform. British film magazine Sight & Sound revealed in its April 2016 issue that Criterion would be expanding its releases to

1632-541: The first time in its history, Criterion announced it would begin releasing its catalogue outside of the US and Canada (earlier international Criterion titles such as the Japanese LaserDisc of Blade Runner were licensed to other companies). In partnership with Sony Pictures Home Entertainment , releases began to be distributed with the launch of six titles in the U.K. during the month. Criterion's DVD releases are

1680-661: The four founders each retained a 20% owner's share. In 1997, the Voyager Company was dissolved (Aleen Stein founded the Organa LLC CD-ROM publishing company), and Holtzbrinck Publishers sold the Voyager brand name, 42 CD-ROM titles, the Voyager web site and associated assets to Learn Technologies Interactive, LLC (LTI). Stein sold 42 Voyager titles to LTI from his Voyager/Criterion company share. The remaining three partners, Aleen Stein, Becker and Turell owned

1728-420: The 💕 Japanese actor (1918–2010) Ryō Ikebe 池部 良 [REDACTED] Ryō Ikebe in 1952 Born 池部 良 ( 1918-02-11 ) 11 February 1918 Ōta-ku , Tokyo , Japan Died 8 October 2010 (2010-10-08) (aged 92) Tokyo, Japan Occupation Actor Years active 1941–2010 Ryō Ikebe ( 池部 良 , Ikebe Ryō , 11 February 1918 – 8 October 2010)

1776-412: The friends, do not know for certain if the affair is ongoing. Ozu also omits potentially melodramatic moments: Masako does not discover her husband's lipstick-stained handkerchief on screen, but instead recounts the discovery to her mother. Rotten Tomatoes reports 100% approval for Early Spring , with an average rating of 8/10. In a highly positive review, Nora Sayre of The New York Times wrote that

1824-534: The home-video division of Public Media Inc. (PMI), which he had previously founded in 1968. The HVE company sold, advertised, marketed and distributed Criterion Collection DVDs, and also sold its own HVE brand of DVDs (co-produced with Criterion), including The Merchant Ivory Collection and the Classic Collection, a joint venture between Home Vision Entertainment and Janus Films. The latter enterprise published HVE imprint films, for which Janus Films owned

1872-474: The initial edition and for the later anamorphic widescreen re-release edition of the film. Periodically, Criterion releases material on DVD and Blu-ray disc licensed from the studios with whom the company had previously dealt (such as Universal's and Terry Gilliam 's 1985 film Brazil ); these new releases are generally undertaken on a case-by-case basis. Criterion released its first Walt Disney Pictures title, Andrew Stanton 's WALL-E , in 2022. This

1920-508: The video rights, but which were unavailable from the Criterion Collection; however, Criterion published the Classic Collection films. In 2005, Image Entertainment bought HVE making it the exclusive distributor of Criterion Collection products until 2013. The Criterion Collection began to provide video-on-demand (VOD) in partnership with Mubi (formerly The Auteurs ) in 2008. In February 2011, Criterion began switching its VOD offerings exclusively to Hulu Plus . In November 2016, FilmStruck ,

1968-631: The work "conveys the claustrophobia of office life better than any other film I've seen", and that "Ozu finds dramatic depths in quiet, ordinary lives. And during the time that you spend with these people—the span of the movie—you really feel that you've come to know them well, to understand why their relationships do or don't develop." Sayre wrote that the characters' "emotions or hidden instincts are brilliantly revealed through small details". In The New Yorker , Richard Brody argued that "Ozu’s despairing view of postwar Japan looks as harshly at blind modernization as it does at decadent tradition." Don Druker of

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2016-400: Was a Japanese actor. He graduated from Rikkyō University and originally wanted to be a director, but ended up debuting as an actor at Tōhō in 1941. He did not achieve popularity until starring in a series of youth films in the late 1940s. He expanded his acting range in the 1950s, while still frequently appearing in genre films, such as Tōhō tokusatsu films and yakuza films at Tōei . He

2064-2916: Was also known as an essayist. On 8 October 2010, he died of blood poisoning. He was 92 years old. Selected filmography [ edit ] Film [ edit ] The Sky of Hope (1942) - Tsutomu Midori no daichi (1942) - Kome Yan Yottsu no koi no monogatari (1947) - Masao (episode 1) War and Peace (1947) Haru no kyôen (1947) - Sampei Hayasaka Ai yo hoshi to tomo ni (1947) Sono yo no boken (1948) Hakai (1948) - Segawa Niizuma kaigi (1949) Koi no jusan yoru (1949) Shin'ya no kokuhaku (1949) - Newspaper Reporter Moriguchi Shigeya Aoi sanmyaku (青い山脈) (1949) - Rokusuke Kaneya Zoku aoi sanmyaku (1949) - Rokusuke Kaneya Kikoku (Damoi) (1949) Rinchi (1949) - Nobuo Sugawara Escape at Dawn (暁の脱走, Akatsuki no dasso) (1950) - Mikami Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950) Bōryoku no Machi (ペン偽らず　暴力の街 Pen itsurazu: Bōryoku no machi) (1950) Onna no shiki (1950) Tsuma to onna kisha: Wakai ai no kiki (1950) - Ryôhei Kajimoto Yama no kanata ni - Dai ichi-bu: Ringo no hoo (1950) Yama no kanata ni - Dai ni-bu: Sakana no seppun (1950) Akatsuki no tsuiseki (1950) Yama no kanata ni - Dai ichi-bu: Ringo no hoo: Dai ni-bu: Sakana no seppun - Sôshûhen (1950) Ai to nikushimi no kanata e (1951) Takarazuka fujin (1951) Wakai musumetachi (1951) - Kawasaki Nessa no byaku ran (1951) Hakamadare Yasusuke (1951) Aoi shinju (1951) Wakôdo no uta (1951) Bungawan soro (1951) Onnagokoro dare ka shiru (1951) Koi no rantô (1951) Koibito (1951) Kaze futatabi (1952) Asa no hamon (1952) - Niheita Inobe Kin no tamago: Golden girl (1952) Wakai hito (1952) Gendai-jin (現代人 Gendaijin) (1952) Ashi ni sawatta onna (1952) - Gohei Oka wa hanazakari (1952) - Masaya Nozaki Yoru no owari (1953) - Shinji Kizaki Tokai no yokogao (1953) - Ueda [sandwich man] Ashita wa dotchi da (1953) - Saniwa Botchan (1953) - Botchan Bochan (1953) Chi no hate made (1953) Onna gokoro wa hitosuji ni (1953) - Gintarô Farewell Rabaul (1954) - Captain Wakabayashi Kaze tachinu (1954) - Eyoichi Fukuyama Geisha Konatsu (1954) - Kubo Watashi no subete o (1954) - Saburo Seki Kimi shinitamo koto nakare (1954) Ani-san no aijô (1954) Koi-gesho (1955) - Rikiya Kizu Owarai torimonocho-hatchan hatsutegara (1955) Fumetsu no nekkyû (1955) Sanjusan go sha otonashi (1955) The Lone Journey (旅路, Tabiji) (1955) - Naojiro Mikazuki Rangiku monogatari (乱菊物語) (1956) Early Spring (早春 Sōshun) (1956) - Shôji Sugiyama Vampire Moth (1956) - Kindaichi Kōsuke Kon'yaku sanbagarasu (1956) Gendai no yokubô (1956) - Hiroshi Tanigawa The Legend of

2112-423: Was delayed for a year while restoration was underway on a then-newly-found camera negative). As with its laserdiscs, Criterion's early DVD editions of widescreen films were presented in the letterbox format, but Criterion did not anamorphically enhance its discs for 16:9 monitors until mid-1999 with its release of Insomnia (#47). Criterion was slow to expand into high-definition releases, partly because of

2160-685: Was founded in 1984 by Robert Stein , Aleen Stein and Joe Medjuck , who later were joined by Roger Smith. In 1985, the Steins, William Becker and Jonathan B. Turell founded the Voyager Company to publish educational multimedia CD-ROMs (1989–2000), and the Criterion Collection became a subordinate division of the Voyager Company, with Janus Films holding a minority stake in the company, and decided to expand its product on videocassettes and videodiscs. In March 1994, Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH bought 20% of Voyager for US$ 6.7 million;

2208-817: Was not the result of an ongoing deal between Disney and Criterion, but rather licensed as a one-off, with Stanton approaching Criterion and "wanting to be part of the club". All Criterion titles are numbered, which is shown on the bottom of the spine of the packaging. Though the bulk of Criterion's catalog is of live-action films, they have also released animated films ( Akira , Fantastic Planet , Fantastic Mr. Fox and WALL-E ), television series ( Tanner '88 , Fishing with John and select episodes of I Love Lucy and The Addams Family ) and music videos ( Beastie Boys Video Anthology ). The Criterion Collection began publishing LaserDiscs on December 1, 1984, with its release of Citizen Kane , until March 16, 1999, with Michael Bay 's Armageddon (#384). Three of

2256-656: Was previously planned for Blu-ray and DVD release in October 2021, was delayed until November in order to also give the film an Ultra HD Blu-ray release. After forays in providing titles from the Collection as streaming video-on-demand (VOD) in partnership with other companies – Mubi (formerly The Auteurs , 2008), Hulu Plus (2011–2016) and TCM 's FilmStruck (2016–2018) – Criterion titles found themselves without an online home when FilmStruck announced it would be shutting down on November 29, 2018. The company stated in

2304-544: Was the debut of the scene-specific audio commentary contained in a separate analog channel of the LaserDisc, in which American film historian Ronald Haver spoke about the production, cast, screenplay, production design and special effects. He also provides commentary on the LaserDisc editions of Casablanca (1942), Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), Singin' in the Rain (1952) and The Wizard of Oz (1939). Typically,

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