Product Details

• Actors: Maksim Munzuk, Yuri Solomin, Svetlana Danilchenko, Dmitri Korshikov, Suimenkul Chokmorov
• Directors: Akira Kurosawa
• Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Vladimir Arsenyev, Yuri Nagibin
• Producers: Nikolai Sizov, Yôichi Matsue
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: G (General Audience)
• Studio: Kino Video
• DVD Release Date: September 2, 2003
• Run Time: 144 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004Y7HL
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,841 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Dersu Uzala" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Kino International Release Date: 09/02/2003 Run time: 137 minutes

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

75 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Technically miserable, January 8, 2001

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Cuvelier Fabrice "floc_2003" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dersu Uzala (DVD)

Let's make it clear from start : the movie is a pure masterpiece and will top rank in anyone vidéo collection. The point here is the DVD transfer which is a catastrophy. I am not a techno nut & am very tollerant when there is some quality problems here & there. But this DVD has to be a case on what can go wrong : the sound is scratchy at best, the colors are mostly saturated or are totally faded, the picture goes constantly out of focus, ... Things where so bad I checked my hardware with another DVD ! For the price this is a rip-off.

81 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Blush, Kino, January 15, 2001

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"kilt_lifter" (Monterey, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dersu Uzala (DVD)

Wonderful film, one of my top ten, but this is a terrible DVD. My videotape is MUCH better. Kino must have searched for the worst possible print to transfer; every flaw is preserved and magnified. A ridiculous, cheap, cynical, hack-job on a beautiful film. How did this happen, and why won't someone with a conscience do this film DVD justice?

122 of 133 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something isn't right here.., September 20, 2002

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Tyrone Swainson "Film Fanatic" (Jamaica, New York USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dersu Uzala (DVD)

The movie is a classic..one of Kurosawa's best films. Even better than some of his older works but something definately stinks here. How is this DvD actually worth [money]? I mean, make no mistake; this is a Kurosawa, but the quality sometimes looks worst than a bootlegged VHS. Kurosawa's older movies like Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai look much better than this and those movies are 44 and 48 years old respectively, COST LESS and are black and white.

Sadly this isn't the first Kurosawa movie I've seen been massacred by a poor DvD transfer. Remember Ran? That DvD was a utter disgrace. So was Madadayo and Sanjuro. I'm so sick of these companies seeking a quick profit so they take works of art and destroy them with half assed ports and then charge over inflated prices on top of all that. It makes me sick. And then there are movies like Kagemusha, Ikiru and Throne of Blood (some of the greatest movies ever made) that have yet to be released on DvD and that I find completely unacceptable.

I'm sorry this is beginning sound like a rant but no way is this half assed transfer worth that much money. The movie gets 10 stars but the DvD gets NONE.