[Machine Translation] Director Nobuhiko Obayashi's thoughtful adaptation of Sunao Ashihara's Naoki Prize-winning novel is now available on DVD in a deluxe edition packed with special features! The DVD is a deluxe edition with a jacket illustrated by Hisamitsu Noguchi, a 4-page commentary enclosed in the jacket, and a newly mastered negative telecine for the DVD under the supervision of Kenji Ogihara and Shigeru Iwamatsu, who were in charge of cinematography.