http://www.criterion.com/asp/boxed_set.asp?id=2000700To include I Live in Fear, The Idiot, No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday and Scandal.
Good news and an interesting selection. I Live in Fear and No Regrets for My Youth are both good, if overly didactic, and I've long wanted to see his adaptation of The Idiot.
Idiot, despite studio slaughtering (especially early on), is one of my favorite Kurosawa films. Scandal, for all the faint praise it has received, is actually quite a treat -- with an unusually debonair Mifune (as a motorcycle-riding artist) and a wonderfully over-the-top Shimura (as a shyster lawyer). These two films are already avaiable in quite decent editions from Masters of Cinema (UK).
Having a watchable, properly-subtitled No Regrets will be a major treat for those of used to the ancient Mei Ah DVD of this film. The other two films are still unexplored territory for me. A chief attraction of One Wonderful Sunday is the fact that the leading female role is taken by Chieko Nakakita, Naruse's most valuable long-term supporting actress, playing (often important) roles in 20 or so of his films.