Kiga kaikyō
(Blu-ray)

Title and credits from screen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1965.

Based on the novel by Tsutomu Minakami.

Wide screen (aspect ratio of 2.40:1).

Bonus materials: Introduction by writer and curator Jasper Sharp; Six scene-specific commentaries with Irene González-López, Alexander Zahlten, Erik Homenick, Daisuke Miyao, Earl Jackson and Aaron Gerow; Original theatrical trailer; Image gallery; Tomu Uchida filmography; Reversible sleeve featuring artwork by Tony Stella.

Director of photography, Hanjiro Nakazawa ; editor, ; music, Isao Tomita.

Rentaro Mikuni, Sachiko Hidari, Koji Mitsui, Yoshi Kato, Sadako Sawamura, Susumu Fujita.

In 1947, a freak typhoon sends a passenger ferry running between Hokkaido and mainland Japan plunging to the ocean depths, with hundreds of lives lost. During the chaos, three men are witnessed fleeing a burning pawnshop in the Hokkaido port town of Iwanai. The police suspect theft and arson, and when Detective Yumisaka discovers the burned remains of a boat and the corpses of two men, he sets about tracking the shadowy third figure. Meanwhile, the mysterious Takichi Inukai takes shelter with a prostitute, Yae, a brief encounter that will come to define both of their lives. A decade later, long after the trail has gone cold, Yumisaka is called back by his successor Detective Ajimura as two new dead bodies are found.

Rating: Not Rated.

Blu-ray; region A; wide screen; LPCM 1.0 mono; requires Blu-ray player.

Japanese dialogue; optional English subtitles.