Interesting DVD news from Hong Kong
Michael E Kerpan Jr
kerpan at attglobal.net
Wed Aug 28 21:38:53 EDT 2002
Panorama Entertainment Company (from Hong Kong), in association with Shu Kei's
Creative Workshop (the source of a nice Tokyo Story VCD) is going to be
releasing lots of classic Shochiku titles, including films by Ozu, Naruse,
Mizoguchi, Kurosawa, Imamura, Oshima, Kinoshita, Gosho, Suzuki, Teshigihara
and Kobayashi.
See: http://www.panorama.com.hk/en/events.php?cod=4
The first Tora-san movie (by Yamada Yoji) and Imamura's "Vengeance Is Mine"
already seem to have been released -- and have English subtitles. No
information as to region coding (the first two releases are apparently marked
R3 but are actually all-region). Poker Industries and YesAsia both seem to
have these in stock already.
Here's a link to the first few batches of releases:
http://www.panorama.com.hk/shochiku/html/main3.html
I would consider this to be fairly exciting and encouraging news.
;~}
MEK
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