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I Flunked,
But . . .
(1930)
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This comedy-drama feature, directed by Yasujirô Ozu, stars Tatsuo Saitô and Kaoru Futaba, with Tomio Aoki, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ichirô Okuni, Chishû Ryû, Kenji Satome and Goro Yokoyama.
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 British Film Institute
2011 DVD edition
The Student Comedies (1924), black & white, 316 minutes total, BBFC Certification PG, including I Flunked, But . . . (1930), black & white, 99 minutes, BBFC Certification PG.
British Film Institute, BFIVD927, UPC 5-035673-009277.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 2 PAL DVD disc (two DVDs in the set); 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at 320 Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional English language subtitles; chapter stops; 40-page insert booklet; standard two-disc DVD keepcase; £19.95.
Release date: 20 February 2012.
Country of origin: England
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This PAL DVD edition has been mastered from archival 35mm print elements.
The film is accompanied by a music score composed and performed by Ed Hughes with The Camilleri Trio and Richard Casey.
Supplemental material includes the surviving fragment of I Graduated, But . . . (1929) (11 minutes); the featurette “Ozu: Emotion and Poetry” with Tony Rayns; and a 40-page insert booklet with essays by Tony Rayns and Alexander Jacoby.
This is our recommended home video edition of the film. North American collectors will need a region-free PAL DVD player capable of outputting an NTSC-compatible signal to view this edition.
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This Region 2 PAL DVD edition has been discontinued
and is . . .
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 Loving the Classics
202? DVD edition
I Flunked, But . . . (1930), black & white, 65 minutes, not rated.
Loving the Classics,
no catalog number, no UPC number.
One single-sided, single-layered, Region 0 NTSC DVD-R disc; 1.33:1 aspect ratio picture in full-frame 4:3 (720 x 480 pixels) interlaced scan image encoded in SDR MPEG-2 format at ? Mbps average video bit rate (capable of progressive scan upscaling to ? fps); Dolby Digital (AC3) 2.0 stereo sound encoded at ? Kbps audio bit rate; Japanese language intertitles, optional? English language subtitles; chapter stops; standard DVD keepcase; $14.99.
Release date: 202?
Country of origin: USA
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This DVD-R edition has likely been mastered from a 16mm reduction print.
The film is likely accompanied by a soundtrack compiled from preexisting music recordings.
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This
Region 0 NTSC DVD-R edition is available directly from . . .
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Other JAPANESE FILMS of the silent era available on home video.
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