New Arrival Demon Pond (Blu-Ray, #1237) USED

Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the towns inhabitantsincluding lovers Akira (Go Kato) and Yuri (Kabuki legend Tamasaburo Bando, who also plays the ethereal princess reigning over the water)in their hands. Set to the swirling strains of electronic-music pioneer Isao Tomitas synth score, Demon Pondblends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of natures wrath.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

• 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Masahiro Shinoda and actor Tamasaburo Bando, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew
• Program on the films special effects
• PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson

  New illustration by Yuko Shimizu