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Travels with
Hiroshi Shimizu
(1933-1941)

This collection includes one silent film from the latter days of the Japanese Benshi narrative tradition.

Eclipse Series
2009 DVD edition

Travels with Hiroshi Shimizu (1933-1941), black & white, 327 minutes total, not rated, including Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, Mr. Thank You (1936), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, The Masseurs and a Woman (1938), black & white, ? minutes, not rated, and Ornamental Hairpin (1941), black & white, ? minutes, not rated.

The Criterion Collection, unknown catalog number (Eclipse series 15), unknown UPC number, unknown ISBN number.
Four single-sided, single-layered, Region 1 NTSC DVD discs; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; four slimline DVD keepcases in cardboard slipcase; $44.95.
Release date: 17 March 2009.
Country of origin: USA

This DVD edition has likely been mastered from archival 35mm prints.

The film is likely accompanied by a custom music score.

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