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

[Serdar Yegulalp]

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
>