"Koya no dacchi waifu"

[Roland Domenig]

the dvd-transfer of uplink is indeed awful and unforgivable. the video that
waizu-shuppan released in april 1997 has the original cinemascope-format. a
new 35mm print has been made on this ocassion and therefore the quality of
the video is pretty good.
uplink doesn't seem to care much for the films of its nippon erotics series
- wakamatsu's "joji no rirekisho" is also cropped to fullscreen. the
interview and other "extras" (if you can call them as such) are also rather
disappointing. instead of editing the interview with wakamatsu and adachi
they just chopped it in three parts and divided it evenly over the three
dvds.    
as much as i love the film(s) of yamatoya atsushi, i'd recommend not to
watch the dvd but to look out for the video.

roland domenig
institute of east asian studies
vienna university
           

> I'd imagine the tape would look pretty much identical, as the 60's Koji
> Wakamtsu's I've seen on VHS look pretty bad as well.
> 
> Uplink's DVD of Masao Adachi's "Jogakusei Gerira" looks marginally better,
> being in widescreen. It's still a shame that these Nippon Erotics discs are
> all sourced from dupey-looking video masters; the three 60's films have an
> interview with Wakamatsu and Adachi as an extra so the filmmakers are
> involved with these releases, and one would have thought Wakamatsu, if
> anyone, would be aware of someone possessing actual prints of these films.
> 
> Uplink's DVD of Pavel Klushantsev's "Planet Bur" / "The Planet of Storms"
> (1962) incidentally looks wonderful - and is highly recommended - and would
> seem to be evidence that they can produce a very fine-looking DVD when
> decent source material is at their disposal.
> 
> Miles
>