The Dogra Magra Blu-ray brings Toshio Matsumoto’s final feature to home media outside Japan for the first time. A man awakens in an asylum with no memory of who he is or why he is being held. Under the guidance of Dr. Wakabayashi, fragments of his past re-emerge: a wedding, a brutal killing, and a connection to another physician, Dr. Masaki, whose experiments seem tied to a mysterious manuscript called Dogra Magra. As the doctors attempt to reconstruct his identity, reality dissolves into hallucination, blurring memory, dream and delusion. Adapted from Kyusaku Yumeno’s influential novel, this period-set psychological labyrinth combines gothic dread, hypnotic imagery and a sense of spiralling madness reminiscent of Cure and Shutter Island. Shot by Tatsuo Suzuki, the film is a rare and surreal work of Japanese cinema finally restored for modern audiences.

directed by: Toshio Matsumoto
starring: Yoichi Miura, Nobuko Otowa, Keizo Kanie, Hiroshi Sakano
1988 / 135 min / 1.85:1 / Japanese mono

Dogra Magra [Limited Edition] [Blu-ray] w/o slip

Name: Dogra Magra [Limited Edition] [Blu-ray] w/o slip
Brand: Radiance
Price: 34.99 CAD
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BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• High-definition digital transfer supervised by cinematographer Tatsuo Suzuki and producer Shuji Shibata
• Audio commentary by Toshio Matsumoto (2003)
• Interview with Toshio Matsumoto (2003, 21 mins)
• Visual essay by programmer and curator Julian Ross (2024)
• Instructions on the Ahodara Sutra by Hiroshi Sakano (16 mins)
• Trailer
• New and improved English subtitles
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow
• Limited edition booklet with new writing by Hirofumi Sakamoto, Jasper Sharp on screenwriter Atsushi Yamatoya, plus an interview with Shuji Shibata and Matsumoto’s director’s statement
• Full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip (limited to 3000 copies)
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