Bumpkin Soup (Limited Edition, Region Free) w/SLIP

An early pink film from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, the award-winning director ofCureandTokyo Sonata

A country girl named Akiko (Yoriko Doguchi, known for her collaborations with the late Kishin Shinoyama) visits a college in Tokyo in search of her hometown sweetheart. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campusblas intellectuals, sex-crazed co-eds, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame (played by award-winning director Juzo Itami) and of course her sweetheart Yoshioka, who has become an elusive campus nobody.

Blu-ray

TWFBD088 | Region Free | Released: 17 Feb 2025

Interview with actress Yoriko Doguchi
Feature length audio commentary by Jasper Sharp
Video Essay by Jerry White, author of The Films of Kiyoshi Kurosawa : Master of Fear
Slipcase with artwork from Gokaiju
Directors Company edition featuring insert by Jasper Sharp limited to 2000 copies