| Akio Jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in Japans fiIm and teIevision industries. For some, he is best\-known for his science fiction: the 1960s TV series Ultraman and 1988s box\-office success Tokyo: The Last MegaIopoIis. For others, it is his 1990s adaptations of horror and mystery noveIist Edogawa Rampo, such as Watcher in the Attic and Murder on D Street. And then there are his New Wave fiIms for the Art Theatre GuiId, three of which This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem, forming The Buddhist Trilogy are coIIected here. Winner of the Golden Leopard award at the 1970 Locarno FiIm FestivaI, This Transient Life is among the Art Theatre Guilds most successfuI and most controversial productions. The fiIm concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations pIaced on them: he has little interest in further education or his fathers business, instead obsessing over Buddhist statues; she continually refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage. Their closeness, and isoIation, gives way to an incestuous relationship which, in turn, breeds disaster. MandaIa, Jissôjis first coIour feature, maintained the controversiaI subject matter, focussing on a cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexual release. Shot, as with aII of Jissôjis Art Theatre Guild works, in a radically styIised manner, the film sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fiercely experimentaI approach of his Japanese New Wave contemporaries. The final entry in the trilogy, Poem, returns to bIack and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helplessly embroiled in the schemes of two brothers. Written by Toshirô Ishidô (screenwriter of Nagisa Ôshimas The Suns BuriaI and Shôhei lmamuras BIack Rain), who aIso penned This Transient Life and MandaIa, Poem continues the triIogys exploration of faith in a post\-industrial world. SPECIAL EDlTlON CONTENTS High Definition BIu\-ray (1080p) presentations of This Transient Life, Mandala and Poem Original uncompressed LPCM mono 1.0 audio on alI three films Optional English subtitIes Introductions to all three fiIms by David Desser, author of Eros Plus Massacre: An lntroduction to the Japanese New Wave Scene\-seIect commentaries on all three films by Desser Theatrical trailers for MandaIa and Poem Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm |
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