Dogra Magra Limited Edition Blu-Ray

A man wakes up in a mental hospital with no memory. Dr. Wakabayashi helps him recall his past, in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory is linked to another doctor, Dr. Masaki, and a manuscript, Dogra Magra. As the two doctors treat him, reality and fantasy become blurred, and the patient becomes uncertain of his identity or his doctors' experiments. The last feature film by Toshio Matsumoto (Funeral Parade of Roses) is a film adaptation of the famous novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, a gothic tale with a sense of dreamlike horror reminiscent of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and the mystery of the locked room in Shutter Island. Dogra Magra is a fantastically photographed phantasmagoria by Tatsuo Suzuki (Pastoral: To Die in the Country) and is presented on Blu-ray for the first time outside Japan. BLU-RAY IN LIMITED EDITION

High-resolution digital transfer supervised by cinematographer Tatsuo Suzuki and producer Shuji Shibata

Audio commentary by director Toshio Matsumoto (2003)

Interview with Toshio Matsumoto (2003, 21 min)

A visual essay by programmer and curator Julian Ross (2024)

Instructions on the Ahodara Sutra (a popular Japanese song performed by Dr. Masaki in the film) by legendary street performer Hiroshi Sakano (16 min)

Trailer

Gallery of rare sketches by production designer Takeo Kimura, newly scanned from the originals for this edition

New and improved English subtitles

Reversible case with original and newly produced art by Time Tomorrow

Limited edition booklet with new texts by Hirofumi Sakamoto, chairman of the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive, and author Jasper Sharp on screenwriter Atsushi Yamatoya, as well as an interview with producer Shuji Shibata and Matsumoto's commentary on the direction.