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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
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Features: DVD, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Black & White, Color, Mono Audio, English, Subtitled
Along with Battle Royale, Under the Flag of the Rising Sun is one of Kinji Fukasaku's most personal works. Sachiko Hidari gives a towering performance as the war widow who returns year after year to the Ministry of Welfare, trying to clear the name of her disgraced husband: a sergeant court-martialed and executed for desertion at the end of the war. Seeking out four survivors from her husband's garrison, she pursues the truth and uncovers a Rashomon like mystery conveyed with all the impact and rage one would expect from Kinji Fukasaku.
"One of Fukasaku's angriest and most explicit explorations of his great theme: postwar trauma and warp-speed transformations in Japanese society." Dennis Lim, The Village Voice
Editor's Note
Japanese auteur Kinji Fukasaku examines the trauma of World War II in his home country in the docu-drama UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN (GUNKI HATAMEKU MOTONI). Taking his cue from HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR, Fukasaku combines a fictional drama with documentary segments illustrating and reinforcing the film's central themes. Mrs. Togashi (Sachiko Hidari) had a husband who was court martialed and executed in the final days of World War II, and as a result receives no pension from the government. Many years on, the army will still not tell her the circumstances of his death, so she embarks on an investigation of her own. Conducting interviews with a number of her husband's former comrades, she discovers a RASHOMON-like story of both heroism and villainy, bravery and cowardice. Suggesting that perhaps the truth is lost in the chaos of wartime, UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN is a powerful examination of a terrible moment in Japanese history.
| Features | Audio Commentary By Subtitler Linda Hoaglund | | Audio: Japanese Mono | | Digital Transfer, Enhanced For 16:9 Televisions | | Essay By Japanese Film Scholar Tom Mes | | Interview With Fukasaku Scholar Yamane Sadao | | New Subtitles By Linda Hoaglund | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Subtitles: English |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Home Vision/Public Media |
| Release Date: 6/7/2005 |
| Running Time: 96 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1972 | | Catalog ID: 040 | | UPC: 00037429206225 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: Japanese | | Available Audio Tracks: Japanese | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: B&W and Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Kaneto Shindo | | Noboru Mitani | | Norio Osada | | Sachiko Hidari | | Hikaru Hayashi - Musical Score | | Hiroshi Segawa - Cinematographer | | Keiichi Uraoka - Editor | | Kinji Fukasaku - Director | | Kinji Fukasaku - Writer | | Seishi Matsumaru - Producer | | Shoji Yuki - Based On Novel By |
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