Right before two of our hard drives crashed (back to back), we were working on getting our Wakamatsu collection uploaded and posted. Then we lost lost mostly everything in one fell swoop. Now we're being hyper-vigilant about getting these rare treasures secured, so I'm working them into my little Rasta jag. If you're a regular around here, you already know how much we love our militant genius director...so that's why all this Wakamatsuian paranoia has set it. I'm not going to lose this shit twice. If you're also Wakamatsu fan, enjoy!
From Nicholas Rucka:
Lesser-known but still packing a mad punch, Running In Madness... tells of a student activist who is forced to flee Tokyo with his sister-in-law after he inadvertently shoots his police officer brother at a protest rally. We follow the two as they travel north to their hometown of Hokkaido, across a majestic winter landscape. Shot in a stellar psychedelic style and scripted by frequent collaborator Masao Adachi, the story was influenced by Adachi’s time spent with master director Nagisa Oshima, which led to Adachi's development of a more rigorous, formal approach to his work. Running In Madness is one of the first Japanese films to employ "Landscape Theory" (fukei-ron), a style of storytelling, according to Adachi, in which "all the landscapes one faces in...daily life, even those such as the beautiful sites shown on a postcard, are essentially related to the figure of a ruling power."
Technical Information:
Title: 狂走情死考/Kyôsô jôshi-kô/Running in Madness, Dying in Love
Year: 1969
Country: Japan
Director: Kôji Wakamatsu
Source: DVD5 Retail
DVD Format: NTSC
Container: .iso + mds
Size: 4.15 GB
Length: 01:12:22
Programs used: ImgBurn
Resolution: 720x480
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video: MPEG2 @ ~6200 kb/s
Frame Rate: 29.97 fps
Audio: 日本語 Japanese- Dolby AC3 @ 448 kb/s
Subtitles: English
Menu: Yes
Video: Untouched
DVD Extras: Wakamatsu Interview, Photo Gallery
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