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Akio jissôji created a rich and diverse body of work during his five decades in japan's film and television industries'. '.strtoupper('f')or some, he is best known for his science fiction the 1960s tv series ultraman and 1988's box office success tokyo the last megalopolis'. '.strtoupper('f')or others, it is his 1990s adaptations of horror and mystery novelist edogawa rampo, such as watcher in the attic and murder on d street'. '.strtoupper('a')nd then there are his new wave films for the art theatre guild, three of which this transient life, mandala and poem, forming the buddhist trilogy are collected here.winner of the golden leopard award at the 1970 locarno film festival, this transient life is among the art theatre guild's most successful and most controversial productions'. '.strtoupper('t')he film concerns a brother and sister from a rich family who defy the expectations placed on them he has little interest in further education or his father's business, instead obsessing over buddhist statues she continually refuses a string of suitors and the prospect of marriage'. '.strtoupper('t')heir closeness, and isolation, gives way to an incestuous relationship which, in turn, breeds disaster.mandala, jissôji's first colour feature, maintained the controversial subject matter, focussing on a cult who recruit through rape and hope to achieve true ecstasy through sexual release'. '.strtoupper('s')hot, as with all of jissôji's art theatre guild works, in a radically stylised manner, the film sits somewhere between the pinku genre and the fiercely experimental approach of his japanese new wave contemporaries.the final entry in the trilogy, poem, returns to black and white and is centred on the austere existence of a young houseboy who becomes helplessly embroiled in the schemes of two brothers'. '.strtoupper('w')ritten by toshirô ishidô screenwriter of nagisa Ôshima's the sun's burial and shôhei imamura's black rain, who also penned this transient life and mandala, poem continues the trilogy's exploration of faith in a post industrial world.special featureshigh definition blu ray 1080p presentations of this transient life, mandala and poemoriginal uncompressed lpcm mono 1.0 audio on all three filmsoptional english subtitlesintroductions to all three films by david desser, author of eros plus massacre an introduction to the japanese new wavescene select commentaries on all three films by dessertheatrical trailers for mandala and poemreversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by maarko phntm