WIN! The Criterion Edition of Pale Flower on Blu-Ray!

How To Enter This Competition!

Prize: Blu-ray™

FilmJuice Competition: To celebrate the release of Pale Flower on Criterion Collection we've got TWO Blu-ray copies to GIVE AWAY!

For your chance to win, simply answer this question (entry details at the bottom of page): Who directed Pale Flower?

Answer A: Takashi Miike

Answer B: Shōhei Imamura

Answer C: Masahiro Shinoda

Competition Deadline: 13th April 2022

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Posted March 14, 2022 by FilmJuice

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In this cool, seductive jewel of the Japanese New Wave, a yakuza, fresh out of prison, becomes entangled with a beautiful yet enigmatic gambling addict; what at first seems a redemptive relationship ends up leading him further down the criminal path. Bewitchingly shot and edited and laced with a fever-dreamlike score by Toru Takemitsu (Woman in the Dunes, Ran), this breakthrough gangster romance from Masahiro Shinoda (Samurai Spy, Double Suicide) announced an idiosyncratic major filmmaking talent. The pitch-black Pale Flower (Kawaita hana) is an unforgettable excursion into the underworld.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
New video interview with director Masahiro Shinoda
Selected-scene audio commentary by film scholar Peter Grilli, coproducer of Music for the Movies: Toru Takemitsu Origin
al theatrical trailer
New and improved English subtitle translation
PLUS: A new essay by film critic Chuck Stephens