Lightning Over Water [4K Restored Ver.]

[Machine Translation] The latest 4K master of this unique film by international master German director Wim Wenders, which tells the story of his collaboration with legendary film director Nicholas Ray, who was on the verge of death, is now available on Blu-ray for the first time in Japan! Wim Wenders, one of the most famous directors of the modern film industry, whose "Perfect Days" starring Koji Yakusho was an award-winning and worldwide hit, presents a fictionalized portrait of legendary director Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without a Cause" and others), who worked in Hollywood during its golden age in the 1940s and 50s, and also in Europe, as he approaches the end of his life. The masterpiece of the 80's, which established "Documentarism" by depicting the end of life of the legendary director Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without a Cause", etc.) in a fictionalized manner, has been vividly restored in 4K restored master under the supervision of the director himself! --A unique drama with a documentary touch that depicts the final days of a legendary film director who was on the verge of death. Wenders visits his mentor and close friend, Nicholas Ray, in order to adapt a screenplay he had been writing into a film. However, Ray is dying of lung cancer. Wenders is forced to shoot a fiction film in a realistic situation: an elderly director nearing the end of his life and a young director staring at him. The staff members are anguished by the prospect of a real death, but Wenders manages to capture Ray's image on film.... Commentary leaflet enclosed (planned).

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ドイツの国際的巨匠ヴィム・ヴェンダース監督が、余命が迫った伝説の映画監督ニコラス・レイとの共同作業を綴った異色作が、最新の4Kマスターで国内初Blu-ray化! 役所広司主演 『PERFECT DAYS』の各賞席巻・世界的大ヒットも記憶に新しい、現代映画界を代表する映画監督、ヴィム・ヴェンダース。1940～50年代の黄金期ハリウッド、そしてヨーロッパでも活躍した伝説の映画監督ニコラス・レイ(『理由なき反抗』他)が、人生の終焉を迎える姿をフィクショナルに描き、 "ドキュメンタリズム"を確立した80年代の傑作が、監督自ら監修の4Kレストア版マスターで色鮮やかによみがえる! ――余命が迫った伝説の映画監督の最期を、ドキュメンタリー・タッチで描いた異色のドラマ。師であり親友であるニコラス・レイが書きためていた脚本の映画化のため、ヴェンダースは彼を訪れた。しかし、レイは肺ガンで余命が迫っていた。最期が近い老監督と彼を見つめる若手監督という現実どおりのシチュエーションでフィクションを撮ることになる。本物の死を前に、スタッフは苦悩しながらも、ヴェンダースはレイの姿をフィルムに刻みつける・・・。解説リーフレット【執筆: 高崎卓馬 (クリエイティブディレクター / 小説家)】封入。