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Travels with
Hiroshi Shimizu
(1933-1941)
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This collection includes one silent film from the latter days of the Japanese Benshi narrative tradition.
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 Eclipse Series
2009 DVD edition
Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu (1933-1941), black & white, 327 minutes total, not rated,
including Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mr. Thank You (1936), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Masseurs and a Woman (1938), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Ornamental Hairpin (1941), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.
The Criterion Collection, unknown catalog number (Eclipse Series 15), unknown UPC number, unknown ISBN number.
Four single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs, 1.33:1 aspect ratio image in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan MPEG-2 format, SDR (standard dynamic range), ? Mbps average video bit rate, ? Kbps audio bit rate, Dolby Digital 48 kHz 2.0 mono sound, English language intertitles, no foreign language subtitles, chapter stops; four slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $44.95.
Release date: 17 March 2009.
Country of origin: USA
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