Reviews of silent film releases on home video.
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Flunky,
Work Hard
(1931)
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This five-film collection, culled from the earliest years of Mikio Naruse’s career.
Due to the entrenchment of the Benshi narrator tradition in Japanese film exhibition, the production of Japanese silent films extended well into the 1930s. These five films are excellent examples of the continued development of the Japanese silent film.
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 The Criterion Collection
2011 DVD edition
Silent Naruse (1931-1934), black & white, 370 minutes total, not rated,
including Flunky, Work Hard (1931), black & white, 28 minutes, not rated.
The Criterion Collection, ECL120 (Eclipse Series 26),
UPC 7-15515-06931-1, ISBN 978-1-60465-400-4.
One single-sided, dual-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD disc (three DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 mono sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; three slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $44.95.
Release date: 5 April 2011.
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD collection has been mastered from five very-good 35mm source prints.
The film is accompanied by a music score by Robin Holcomb and Wayne Horvitz.
As would be expected of a Criterion Collection release, this collection has been lovingly produced for home video and is enthusiastically recommended.
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Other JAPANESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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