http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ Akira Kurosawa Forums » Topic: A peek into Criterion's new High and Low en Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:37:35 +0000 http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/a-peek-into-criterions-new-high-and-low#post-928 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:34:38 +0000 cocoskyavitch 928@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ <p>Any scrap of Mifune is gold to me-so this is awesome news...I have got to get this just to see the Mifune interview!!!!! </p> http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/topic/a-peek-into-criterions-new-high-and-low#post-921 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:57:40 +0000 Vili Maunula 921@http://akirakurosawa.info/forums/ <p>I got the new double disc <em>High and Low</em> a few days ago, and although the film club won't discuss the movie until next month, I decided to sit down and take a look nevertheless.</p> <p>I must say that the picture quality is really good. It is great to see Kurosawa so well handled -- but we wouldn't expect less from Criterion these days, now, would we?</p> <p>The only part of the set that I watched in its entirety was the Mifune interview from 1981. I think that we actually briefly discussed the interview last year, or at least I have the feeling that it was the same one that Deconstruct linked to <a href="http://akirakurosawa.info/2007/12/02/tsubaki-sanjuro-first-review/#comment-11299">last December</a> (the Youtube video has since been removed). In any case, while I actually didn't find the interview all that interesting, it was nevertheless good to see Mifune as Mifune, not one of the characters that he plays.</p> <p>The Japanese trailer also includes some footage from the scrapped final scene of the movie. The US trailer was also fun to watch, as usual! </p>