More on Ran DVD [was Re: where buy Japanese DVD on the web ?]

[Stuart Galbraith IV]

I agree with you there. I also find the cropping, with no black bar on the top, extremely uncomfortable. (The same format has been used on the Chambara Entertainment "Zatoichi" releases.)

Also, the so-called trailer is not a theatrical trailer at all, but rather a Fox Lorber home video >reissue< trailer. 

Then again, I'm a stickler for details. Why, for example, is the Criterion laserdisc of "Red Beard" mono when the Japanese home video version (and the original 1965 release) is stereophonic? Why is it missing the intermission music? Why didn't they subtitle >any< of "High and Low's" main title credits? Etc., etc.


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On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:31:04   Serdar Yegulalp wrote:
>I have the RAN DVD, and I was far from impressed with it for a couple of
>reasons.  It's nice to have the movie in a watchable widescreen edition with
>good color, etc., but they did nothing more than transfer the widescreen D2
>used to master the very short-lived laserdisc edition of the movie.  There's
>no anamorphic 16x9 image, no soft titles (the hard titles are incredibly
>ugly and not very well rendered), and the only extra is the theatrical
>trailer.  It's a hold-over for what I hope to be a more definitive edition
>to come.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Randy Man <ranman at csf.edu>
>To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 6:49 PM
>Subject: Re: where buy Japanese DVD on the web ?
>
>
>> Mario,
>>
>> Both Amazon.com and Ken Crane's Laserdisc/DVD sell every Japanese language
>> feature currently available on DVD at 30% off list price. They both have
>> very useful online catalogues that include announcements of forthcoming
>> titles. Fox Lorber's DVD of Kurosawa's RAN is spectacular. It's never
>looked
>> so good. Not all of Criterion's Japanese films have yet made the
>transition
>> from laserdisc to DVD, and it's not a foregone conclusion that they will.
>> Image is also getting into the act with all three parts of Kobayashi's THE
>> HUMAN CONDITION for $25 each list. The largest Japanese collections on
>video
>> are still probably those of New Yorker and Homevision and are VHS only for
>> the forseeable future. I don't know about World Artists or Kino or
>> Milestone. Dennis, are you reading this?
>>
>> Randolph Man
>> Moving Image Arts
>> College of Santa Fe
>> e-mail ranman at csf.edu
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Mario Desiderio <mandm at flashnet.it>
>> To: KineJapan list <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
>> Sent: Saturday, August 14, 1999 6:46 AM
>> Subject: where buy Japanese DVD on the web ?
>>
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I tried many major dvd selling websites ( dvdboxoffice, dvdexpress ) but
>> > the only Japanese movies, or any movies but with Japanese audio or
>> > subtitles that they have are anime or documentaries.
>> >
>> > Please give me some web sites in which I may find movies.
>> >
>> > Tell, where have you bought them and what titles have you bought.
>> >
>> > Thanks a lot,
>> >
>> > Mario Desiderio
>>
>
>


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