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

[Serdar Yegulalp]

Details like that tell me that someone either did or didn't care about the
quality of what they put together.  Simple enough.

I understand that there has been some dispute with the rights to a number of
Kurosawa's movies, partly because the original Japanese studios would prefer
to release their own (regionless?) DVDs.  If anyone could clarify that or
get more info, I'd be grateful.

----- Original Message -----
From: Stuart Galbraith IV <tothenamerobby at my-deja.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 3:28 PM
Subject: Re: More on Ran DVD [was Re: where buy Japanese DVD on the web ?]


> 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.