Stranger Than Paradise

Japanese Sony Home Video Library VHS edition of Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise, catalogue 00ZS 80113. The object pairs stark monochrome-and-blue packaging with a 90-minute black-and-white monaural cassette and retains a period Sony fold-out video catalogue insert. As a home-video object it documents the Japanese circulation of a film that became central to 1980s American independent cinema and to Japan's reception of Jarmusch's work.

Edition details

Japanese Sony Home Video Library VHS, catalogue 00ZS 80113, with BOW logo and ¥14,800 list price printed on the spine. Rear sleeve credits Jim Jarmusch, Tom DiCillo, John Lurie, Sara Driver and principal cast. Exact VHS release date is not printed and remains unverified; the 1984 date on the object is the film copyright, not treated as the cassette release year.

Condition note

Clear case and printed sleeve show age-related surface wear and toning, with visible creasing/tearing to the sleeve area at right. Cassette and label appear clean in the supplied photographs, with no obvious mould visible through the windows; playback is unverified. Fold-out Sony catalogue insert shows fold wear, edge tears and age toning.

Audio

Monaural as printed on the cassette/rear sleeve; playback unverified

Subtitles

Japanese subtitles independently catalogued for the Japanese CBS/Sony videocassette; playback unverified

Attribution / research note

Physical rear sleeve: Writer-Director Jim Jarmusch; Photography Tom DiCillo; Music John Lurie; Producer-Production Manager Sara Driver; Executive Producer Otto Grokenberger. Cast includes John Lurie, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen, Tom DiCillo and Sara Driver. The cassette label repeats Jarmusch, DiCillo and Lurie credits. Printed spellings are preserved where visible.