4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Demon Pond 4K Ultra HD

eK Ultra HD | Blu-ray

Featured in Issue Issue 275, September/October 2024

Picture
2.5
Sound
2.5
WSR Score
2.5
Disc Information
Studio The Criterion Collection
Catalog Number CC3608UHDBD
MPAA Rating Not Rated
Retail Price $49.95
Disc Type Single Side, Dual Layer (BD-66)
Running Time 124 min
Color Color
Chapters Yes
Closed Captioned Yes
Regional Coding ABC
Release Date 10/15/2024
Credits
Director Masahiro Shinoda
Screenplay Subscribers only
Music Subscribers only
Cinematography Subscribers only
Editor Subscribers only
Sound Editor Subscribers only
Re-Recording Mixer Subscribers only
Executive Producer Subscribers only
Audio & Video
Aspect Ratio Subscribers only
Measured Ratio Subscribers only
Photography Subscribers only
Disc Soundtrack PCM 24/96 2.0
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In "Demon Pond," Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants—including lovers Akira (Go Kato) and Yuri (Tamasaburo Bando, who also plays the ethereal princess reigning over the water)—in their hands. Demon Pond blends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of nature’s wrath. (Gary Reber)

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