#968: REYGADAS, Carlos: Japón (2002)
REYGADAS, Carlos (Mexico)
Japón [2002]
Spine #968
Blu-ray
The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli, behind-the-scenes photographs, and a selection of Reygadas’s original storyboards.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante.
Video diary
Shot by actor Ferretis during the film’s production.
Short film
Adulte, from 1998 by Reygadas.
Deleted scene
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Japón [2002]
Spine #968
Blu-ray
In this preternaturally assured feature debut by Carlos Reygadas, a man (Alejandro Ferretis) travels from Mexico City to an isolated village to commit suicide; once there, however, he meets a pious elderly woman (Magdalena Flores) whose quiet humanity incites a reawakening of his desires. Recruiting a cast of nonactors and filming in sublime 16 mm CinemaScope, Reygadas explores the harsh beauty of the Mexican countryside with earthy tactility, conjuring a psychic landscape where religion mingles with sex, life coexists with death, and the animal and spiritual sides of human experience become indistinguishable. A work of soaring ambition and starting visual poetry, Japón is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director.
134 minutes
Color
2.0 Surround
in Spanish
2:88:1 aspect ratio
2.0 Surround
in Spanish
2:88:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2019
Director/Writer
Carlos Reygadas was 31 when he wrote and directed Japón.
The Film
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by novelist Valeria Luiselli, behind-the-scenes photographs, and a selection of Reygadas’s original storyboards.
Commentary
None.
Conversation
Between Reygadas and filmmaker Amat Escalante.
Video diary
Shot by actor Ferretis during the film’s production.
Short film
Adulte, from 1998 by Reygadas.
Deleted scene
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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