BUMPKIN SOUP (1985)

An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director of Cure and Tokyo Sonata.

A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus–blasé intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• Interview with actress Yoriko Doguchi
• Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
• Video Essay by Jerry White, author of "The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa : Master of Fear"
• Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
• 'Directors Company' edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp – limited to 2000 copies
• In Japanese, with English subtitles