Problematic Panoramas (was: dvd update)

[Fergus MacDermot]

On this site:

http://www.hkflix.com

They often give warnings about poor subtitles/quality pictures if people 
have complaiend to them.

A couple of early Kurosawa that I got (Ikiru, Step on Tiger's Tail) by a 
distributor called  Mei Ah had dreadful subtitles. The site later posted a 
message warning that many of this company's subtitles were translated in to 
Chinese and then English. So if you can't follow the Japanese too then the 
dialogue is pretty meaningless.

Fergus


>On Wednesday 23 February 2005 09:20, Stefan Nutz / Nuzumakifilms wrote:
>
> > the recently released panorama discs are quite good, lets say average.
> > but i cant remember that there was an anamorphic release ever, at least 
>in
> > this CENTURY OF JAPANESE CINEMA series.
>
>The most problematic Panorama disc I bought was Imamura's "Eijanaika" which
>did not get along well with one of our DVD players (which had issues of its
>own) and has a somewhat iffy transfer.  Nonetheless, I was glad the film at
>all -- and at a relatively low price.
>
>(some Panorama discs seem to require one to turn subtitles on and off via 
>menu
>selections -- and ignore remote-controlled instructions on the topic).
>
>I have heard that some other discs had worse problems.
>
>MEK