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HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986)
Obayashi's monochromatic dream playfully worships the bike culture of yesteryear, delivering a sentimental and liberating take on young love.
Following a painful breakup, macho biker Koh (Riki Takeuchi) skips town and hits the road on his beloved Kawasaki W3 650. On his countryside excursion, he encounters the free-spirited Miyo (Kiwako Harada, older sister of Obayashi favorite Tomoyo Harada) who quickly takes interest in both the leather-clad Koh and his motorbike. Koh and Miyo fall in love even as Miyo's prodigious biking talent and thrill-seeking tendencies heighten Koh's fear that she may push it all too far. A nostalgia-filled reminiscence, Nobuhiko Obayashi's monochromatic dream playfully worships the biker culture of yesteryear, delivering a sentimental and liberating take on young love.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- High-definition Transfer
- Audio Commentary by Samm Deighan
- Becoming the Wind: His Motorbike, Her Island and the Biker Movie - Visual essay by Esther Rosenfield
- Her Island: Onomichi Pt. 1 - Visual essay by Alex Pratt
- Director Nobuhiko Obayashi Archival Interview
- Theatrical Trailers
- New improved English subtitles
- Reversible sleeve with Japanese original poster art
- First Pressing includes repro 24-page Japanese booklet (pamphlet)
