Post by captainofbeef on Apr 24, 2006 17:35:24 GMT -5
- New high-definition digital transfers of both films, with restored image and sound
- Audio commentary on Kurosawa's The Lower Depths featuring Japanese-film expert Donald Richie (A Hundred Years of Japanese Cinema)
- A documentary on the making of Kurosawa's The Lower Depths, part of the Toho Masterworks series Akira Kurosawa: It is Wonderful to Create
- Introduction to Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths by the director
- Original theatrical trailer of Kurosawa's The Lower Depths
- New essay by Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader’s Guide to Japanese Literature) for the Kurosawa film; new essay by film scholar Alexander Sesonske, author of Jean Renoir: The French Films 1924-1939, for the Renoir
- New and improved subtitle translations
- Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer editions
