RING and "pink" film

[The Gline]

> Not so fast....Weisser has recently announced that he is the "official"
> distributor of Nikkatsu pink films in the United States. His company,
Asian
> Cult Cinema, is releasing a slate of 50 titles on home video, all
reportedly
> widescreen and subtitled. I'm not surprised he's not releasing these
through
> his Video Search of Miami since he's been offering "grey-market" dupes of
> many of these films for years. Does anyone in the know anything about the
> validity of his new claims of official distributor status?

I double-checked on that, and as it turns out, he's quite legitimate as far
as those titles are concerned. It's the VSOM stuff I worry about.

> The lineup includes films by Tatsumi Kumashiro, Chusei Sone, Yasuhara
Hasee,
> Masaru Konuma, Takashi Ishii, Koyu Ohara, and Naosuke Kurosawa among
others.
> I might be interested in a couple of these titles but not if they're just
the
> same old poor quality dubs that VSoM has offered before.

No idea about the quality of same, but there are brief video samples on his
site, and it looks like they're taken from his own masters. Which means
they're probably not that great.

http://www.asiapulpcinema.com/ , on the other hand, has professional-quality
masters. They just issued WEATHER WOMAN on VHS (no DVD, sorry), and it's
several notches above the run-of-the-mill pink.