The Masters of Cinema Series

NARUSE: VOLUME ONE out now

Just in time for Christmas, our second box set in as many months, NARUSE: VOLUME ONE (containing Repast (1951), Sound of the Mountain (1954), and Flowing (1956)) is out now. It features lovely new progressive transfers, commentaries by Kent Jones and Phillip Lopate, and a meaty 184-page book with the writing of Audie Bock, Phillip Lopate, and Catherine Russell.

This box set represents the first DVD release of any films by Mikio Naruse in the English-speaking world and prefigures more Naruse releases by the British Film Institute (UK) and the Criterion Collection (USA) throughout 2007. We hope to return to Naruse soon for our NARUSE: VOLUME 2 box set towards the end of 2007. This is our last release before Christmas, so warm season’s greetings to everyone reading this, and may your unwatched pile shrink over the holiday!