I haven’t watched Yuri yet, but the back of this Japanese VHS gives me a question I didn’t expect to ask: how do you fall in love with someone who’s driving around with her dead boyfriend in a refrigerator? The refrigerator is named Yuri. I want to know how the movie makes that work.
On the packaging
- Title: ユーリ (Yuri).
- Director, story and screenplay: Yūji Sakamoto. The cover calls it his first directorial work.
- Cast: Issei Ishida, Maki Sakai and Masatoshi Nagase (special appearance).
- Music: Hiroshi Fujiwara.
- Back-cover premise: a young man falls for a woman transporting a refrigerator named Yuri, which holds the body of her boyfriend whom she accidentally killed.
- Printed specifications: 102 minutes, color, Hi-Fi stereo, standard picture size. The marking 96・12・20 appears on the packaging; its meaning is unverified.
Tape details
- Commercial Japanese-language Pony Canyon VHS. Playback and audio or subtitle options have not been checked.
- Condition: Good (catalog entry).
- Not yet streamed. Archive ID: VHS-2026-1325.
