The Funeral (1984) Criterion 1080p BluRay x265 10bit PCM 1.0 - Cabiria

It’s death, Japanese style, in the rollicking and wistful first feature from maverick writer-director Juzo Itami. In the wake of her lascivious father’s sudden passing, a successful actor (Itami’s wife and frequent collaborator, Nobuko Miyamoto) and her husband (Tsutomu Yamazaki) leave Tokyo and return to their family house to oversee a traditional funeral. Over the course of three days of mourning that bring illicit escapades in the woods, a surprisingly materialistic priest (Yasujiro Ozu regular Chishu Ryu), and cinema’s most epic sandwich handoff, the tensions between public propriety and private hypocrisy are laid bare. Deftly weaving dark comedy with poignant family drama, The Funeral is a fearless satire of the clash between old and new in Japanese society in which nothing, not even the finality of death, is off-limits.
Title: The Funeral
Production Year: 1984
Directed by: Juzo Itami
Starring: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai and Hideji Otaki
Written by: Juzo Itami
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Runtime: 2h 4min
Size: 7.93 gb
Video Codec: HEVC (Main10@L4)
Bitrate: Variable, 7777 kb/s average
Resolution: 1438x1080
Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Framerate: 23.976 fps
Audio: English PCM 1.0 1152 kbps
Subtitles: English
Source: Criterion Collection Blu-ray