Lower Depths (Kurosawa / Renoir) Criterion R1 DVD

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USA R1 DVD (Vaatii aluevapaan soittimen)

Two Disc

Lower Depths (The) AKA Donzoko (1957)

In a slum flophouse, a collection of beggars and thieves bewail their lot in life, and Osugi, the landlady, fights with her sister, Okayo, over the man they both desire, the thief Sutekichi.

Director: Akira Kurosawa

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Lower Depths (The) AKA Les Bas-Fonds AKA Underground AKA Underworld (1936)  I
Adapted from Maxim Gorky's original play, The Lower Depths follows the tawdry goings-on of a group of flophouse denizens whose lives are complicated by love, crime, a pair of unsavory landlords, and above all poverty.
Director: Jean Renoir 

R1 America - Criterion Collection
The Lower Depths
#239
Extras:

DISC ONE 
* "The Lower Depths" directed by Akira Kurosawa (1957) 
Audio commentary with Donald Richie (Japanese-film expert, and author of A Hundred Years of Japanese Film) 
“Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create - The Lower Depths” documentary (32:57) 
Cast biographies by Stephen Prince (author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa) (text pages) 
- Toshiro Mifune 
- Isuzu Yamada 
- Kyoko Kagawa 
- Ganjiro Nakamura 
- Minoru Chiaki 
- Kamatari Fujiwara 
- Akemi Negishi 
- Koji Mitsui 
- Eijiro Tono 
- Eiko Miyoshi 
- Bozuken Hidari 

DISC TWO 
* "The Lower Depths" directed by Jean Renoir (1936) 
Introduction by Jean Renoir (5:46)

Subtitles:English (optional)
Aspect Ratio:1.33:1
Picture Format: Non-Anamorphic
TV System: NTSC
Soundtrack(s):Japanese Dolby Digital 1.0
Case type:Special Case
Notes:Only available as part of the two-disc set "The Lower Depths", together with Jean Renoir’s 1936 version ("Les Bas-Fonds") 
Includes a 20 page booklet (which also covers the Renoir film), featuring a new essay by Keiko McDonald (From Book to Screen: Modern Japanese Literature in Films) and Thomas Rimer (A Reader’s Guide to Japanese Literature)