Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Featuring: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Cliff Gorman, Henry Silva, Isaach de Bankolé, Tricia Vessey, Victor Argo, Gene Ruffini, Richard Portnow, Camille Winbush, Gary Farmer
Year: 1999
Time: 116 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 1057
Licensor
Plywood Productions, Inc.
Release Date: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
MSRP: $39.95
Blu-ray
1 Disc
1.85:1
English DTS-HD MA Surround 5.1
Subtitles: English
Region A
The Odyssey: A Journey into the Life of a Samurai, a 2000 program on the making of the film
Deleted scenes and outtakes
Alternate isolated stereo music track
Trailer
New Q&A with Jim Jarmusch, in which he responds to questions sent in by fans
New conversation between actors Forest Whitaker and Isaach de Bankolé, moderated by film scholar Michael B. Gillespie
New interview with casting director Ellen Lewis
New interview with Shifu Shi Yan Ming, founder of the USA Shaolin Temple
New video essay on RZA’s original score for the film
Archival interviews
An essay by critic Greg Tate and quotations from Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, by the early-eighteenth-century monk Yamamoto Tsunetomo