Bumpkin Soup (Director's Company Edition)

An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of Cure, Kairo and Tokyo Sonata. A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Special Features

Commentary: Jasper Sharp., Interviews: Yoriko Dôguchi (actor)., Video essay by Jerry White, author of 'The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Master of Fear'; Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju; 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp (limited to 2000 copies).

Actors: Yoriko Dôguchi, Kensô Katô, Jûzô Itami, Usagi Asô, Sôzô Teruoka

Audio Languages: Japanese

Duration: 82 minutes

Number of Discs: 1

Subtitle Languages: English

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