DigiPack Nobuhiko Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy (Blu-ray Limited Edition Digipack) (Third Window Films) [UK]

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Release date: December 13, 2021
Purchase links: Amazon UK - HMV
Price: £67.37 (Amazon) - £49.99 (HMV)
Note: Limited to 2,000 copies

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A limited edition 3 disc digipack bluray set of 3 films from legendary Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi.

Disc 1:
Casting Blossoms to the Skyこの空の花 長岡花火物語 (2012)
Endo Reiko is a journalist visiting Nagaoka to comment on the aftermath of the earthquake in Tohoku. From local residents, Endo learns about the city's fireworks traditions, and how the region was destroyed during the war.
Special Features: 45 minute Interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi

Disc 2:
Seven Weeks野のなななのか (2014)
Weaving the life of a 92-year-old doctor into the history of a small Hokkaido city, “Seven Weeks” addresses Japan’s wartime responsibility, its present nuclear crisis and the heartaches of youth and love.
Special Features: 75 minute Making Of

Disc 3:
Hanagatami 花筐 (2017)
In the spring of 1941, sixteen-year-old Toshihiko leaves Amsterdam to attend school in Karatsu, a small town on the western coast of Japan. Immersed in the seaside's nature and culture, Toshihiko soon befriends the town's other extraordinary adolescents as they all contend with the war's inescapable gravitational pull.
Special Features: 35 minute interview with Nobuhiko Obayashi, Making Of

Limited to just 2000 copies.

Blu-ray Contents:
  • Interviews with Nobuhiko Obayashi
  • Making of Seven Weeks
  • Digipack Limited edition set (2000 copies)
  • Includes booklet by historian Aaron Gerow
 
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BAM | Obayashi's Anti-War Trilogy. This opens a new window. The final films by singular Japanese director Nobuhiko Obayashi, a pop master who never lost his experimental edge, are personal reckonings with the legacy of WWII and the 3/11 tsunami and nuclear disaster.
 
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