Japon

Starring: Alejandro Ferretis and Magdalena Flores

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 startling visual poetry, Japon is an existential journey through uncharted cinematic territory that established the singular voice of its director.

• Format: DVD
• Language: English
• UPC: 842498029022
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Publisher: Mantarraya
• Director: Carlos Reygadas
• Starring: Alejandro Ferretis, Magdalena Flores
• Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: AC-3; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; NTSC; Subtitled; Widescreen
• Weight: 0.18 lbs.