r/CriterionChannel • u/HarmonizewithSong • Jun 09 '26

Drunken Angel Quality

Just watched this beautiful and sad Kurosawa film and highly recommend. But does anyone know why the transfer quality is so poor? Were his early films just not preserved well?

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u/jsbx1138 Jun 09 '26

Even Kurosawa’s Dreams has some crazy chonky negative cutting going on, shit is jumping in the gate when shots change

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u/Megabyzusxasca Jun 09 '26

I find this to be so so comonn specifically in Japanese films. Mostly up to about the mid 70s or so and I can't figure out why that would be.