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Films with subtitles.

[🦀 KANI 🦀 @kani_releasing]

It's been a year since we lost Mike De Leon 🕊️, and on the first anniversary of his death, we're ready to share a brand new trailer (by Maria Estela Paiso) of one of his 1982 masterpieces, BATCH '81

[OVID @OVIDtv]

Masashi Yamamoto's ROBINSON'S GARDEN🌱
Japan's answer to Jarmusch tells the story of a woman who sells her belongings and retreats from the world. Lensed by Tom DiCillo (Johnny Suede).
**Winner, Special Mention @FilmFestLocarno 1987
#Nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing

[Filipe Furtado @filipefurtado]

I have a booklet essay for Kani Releasing new Blu-ray for Seijun Suzuki's great and very underseen Capone Cries a Lot. https://t.co/3pS2ox91B2

[Lehtonen @LehtonenThe]

Oh wow, neat one

Understandably being buried by that cool Manhunter release, but this is a great film that more people should see, and it's cool to see it getting this treatment

[Dustin @thatkaijukidd]

What a time to be alive. Rex is coming to theaters!

Thank you @kani_releasing.

[Disc-Connected @disc_connected]

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Now available to preorder from the @VinegarSyndrome website on Blu-ray and shipping after the #BlackFriday #Sale from @OCNDistro #PartnerLabel @Kani_Releasing: #CaponeCriesALot (1985)!

This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 1,500 units

In this underseen late-career masterwork from Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill, Tokyo Drifter), Kaeimon (Kenichi Hagiwara), a naniwa-bushi performer, travels to Prohibition-era San Francisco in search of prosperity. Convinced that Al Capone is President of the United States and that he may impress him with his old-fashioned singing, he instead falls in with unsavory Japanese hoteliers, Chinese moneylenders and bootleggin’ Italian-American mafiosos. As surrealistic and elliptical as ever, Suzuki packages his career-long obsessions and slingshots them back towards the USA. Capone Cries a Lot is a boyish gangster film in air quotes: a parodic carnival reflecting on the intersection between American and Japanese imperialism, iconography and power. Shot in Japan, around an abandoned amusement park, Suzuki’s collage-like transplantation of American culture is at once uncomfortable (racist minstrel bands in blackface, the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Japanese sentiment reflect Suzuki's understanding of US politics) and reverential (folding jazz, blues, traditional Japanese performing arts and Charlie Chaplinesque slapstick into one aesthetic continuum). All in, it brings Seijun Suzuki’s “borderless” aesthetic project full circle.

Details
Director(s): Seijun Suzuki
Starring: Kenichi Hagiwara, Yuko Tanaka, Kenji Sawada, Akira Emoto, Kai Ato, Bengal Hachiro Tako, Mitsuru Hirata, Haruko Kato, Kirin Kiki, Shinji Maki, Toru Minegishi, Nicolo Scorza, Miki Takakura, Fujio Tokita, Tatsuo Umemiya, Chuck Wilson, Shunsuke Kariya, Randy Reyes
Runtime: 128 min
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Language(s): JPN- Japanese
Sound: DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles: English
Disc Info: Region A Blu-ray

Bonus Content
Commentary by William Carroll (author of Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema)
Booklet with new writing by Filipe Furtado

Trailer: https://t.co/hD37ta7bon

https://t.co/gm03QHL1uL

#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #OCNDistribution #VinegarSyndrome #Kani #KaniReleasing #SeijunSuzuki

[graham @middlemanchette]

Sho Miyake’s TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS is now available for pre-order via @ocndistro !! It includes an interview with Miyake, a Behind-the-Scenes Featurette, and a booklet with a new essay by Yoshiharu Tsuge manga translator @mangaberg. Beautiful new artwork by @TylerRubenfeld

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

The trailer for Haruki Kadokawa’s Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story 🎄

In theaters December 11 via @kani_releasing

[OVID @OVIDtv]

"A bleak, rough-hewn nightmare… entirely realistic yet as frightening as a horror movie." —FictionMachine

Daisuke Miyazaki's techno-thriller VIDEOPHOBIA starring Sumire Ashina, Tomona Hirota and Shûgo Oshinari is now streaming on OVID courtesy Kani Releasing @kani_releasing

[graham @middlemanchette]

Thank you @CriterionDaily for the shout out.

[Eli Olsberg @EliOlsberg]

Kani Releasing continues a stellar year of putting out banger after banger! @kani_releasing

[lulu @stilIwalking]

my son Rex is finally making his US debut

[IndieWire @IndieWire]

Japanese Cult Blockbuster ‘Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story’ to Get First U.S. Theatrical Release in December https://t.co/rS94ucY5mr

[graham @middlemanchette]

Sho Miyake returns to @Metrograph on Nov 7 & 8!!

[OVID @OVIDtv]

BEIJING WATERMELON

"A treasure of wry, telling observations… an eloquent commentary on the magic of the cinema itself." @latimes

Based on true events, this restored 1989 gem is the fourth film by Nobuhiko Obayashi to join OVID.

Now streaming courtesy @kani_releasing

[OVID @OVIDtv]

DESERT OF NAMIBIA

"Yuumi Kawai is immediately magnetic… Yamanaka’s work defies binaries… pulsating, alive!" @Variety

"Intriguing because it’s so unusual." @voguemagazine

"An ultra-melancholic slapstick comedy." @Slatefr

#Nowstreaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing

[OVID @OVIDtv]

"Deadly serious and howlingly absurd... Mesmerizing from first frame to last... A masterpiece!" @Variety

Lav Diaz's BATANG WEST SIDE unspools with the ambition of an epic novel.

Now streaming on OVID courtesy @kani_releasing

[Isabel Sandoval @Isabelvsandoval]

AN EVENT

[OCN Distribution @ocndistro]

Mike De Leon’s BATCH '81 expands his cinematic critique of tyranny to include the indoctrination of tomorrow’s generation. Over the course of a frat pledge’s grueling initiation process, he goes through every humiliation to please his “masters”—even as their treatment veers into increasingly fascistic, cult-like territory in a sinister college drama with overt echoes of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and John Carpenter.

@AFA_archive's and @fdcpofficial's 4K restoration of Mike De Leon’s BATCH ’81 is coming to Blu-ray from @kani_releasing.

Get it with a Limited Edition Slipocver while in stock!

🔪Order at the @VinegarSyndrome store🔪

[wendell sandico @wendellsandico]

this October you can watch the works of one of the most important directors in Filipino film history on the Criterion Channel

[graham @middlemanchette]

One year of blu ray releases! Thanks to @ocndistro @jlalibs ❤️