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Third Window Announce Shadow of Fire and Vital releases

Third Window Announce Shadow of Fire and Vital releases

Written by Richard Durrance on 30 Jul 2024



No great surprises here for those that follow Third Window but it's now official and on their site, September 30th is seeing releases of two Shinya Tsukamoto films made nearly twenty-years apart.

The blu-ray premier of Vital (previously released on DVD by Tartan under their Asia Extreme banner) starring Tadanobu Asano; and his latest Shadow of Fire, previously only shown as part of the Japan Foundation's Touring FIlm Programme and reviewed by yours truly on the site (spoiler: it's very, very good).

Preorder Vital here and Shadow of Fire, too.

Want to know more?

Vital

A young man named Hiroshi (Tadanobu Asano) awakens in the hospital after an accident wipes his memory. Fascinated by a textbook full of drawings of dissections, Hiroshi is drawn to a medical school where he catches the eye of a fellow student. But it’s another who becomes his obsession, the dead woman on the cadaver table.

Want to really capture the feeling of Vital then watch the trailer.

Shadow of Fire

Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest examines the desperate lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post–World War II period through the story of a child dealing with unimaginable adversity.

Part of his war trilogy, which includes Fires On the Plain and Killing, Shinya Tsukamoto’s latest examines the lives of Japanese citizens in the immediate post–World War II period. Part chamber drama, part road movie, Shadow of Fire finds its throughline in the story of a small boy coming of age amid unimaginable hardship.

We've shared this before but there is always a good reason to share its trailer yet again.

 

Synopses shamelessly stolen from Third Window.


Richard Durrance
About Richard Durrance

Long-time anime dilettante and general lover of cinema. Obsessive re-watcher of 'stuff'. Has issues with dubs. Will go off on tangents about other things that no one else cares about but is sadly passionate about. (Also, parentheses come as standard.) Looks curiously like Jo Shishido, hamster cheeks and all.


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