Kurosawa's No Regrets in English

[Michael E Kerpan Jr.]

On Friday 11 March 2005 10:55, Michael McCaskey wrote:

A warning -- the subtitles on the Mei Ah DVD (which is the only one there is 
with English subtitles at present) are quite poor -- especially the Sinicized 
Japanese names (which all become unrecognizable).  And the image quality is 
not too great (to put it gently).  It is possible that the VHS version (if 
available) will look better -- and it will definitely have better English 
subtitles.

In any event, these DVDs are grossly over-priced at Facets.  In the US, the 
best bet is probably YesAsia -- unless one is buying a whole lot of DVDs -- 
in which case Layoyo might be cheaper.

MEK

> Thanks to you, I went to the Facets site, and they have the film now (on
> backorder) in both VHS and DVD formats. I backordered a DVD copy,
> apparently with English subtitles, which is supposed to arrive in a month
> or so, from somewhere. I gave a course on Kurosawa's early postwar films
> this past spring, and students cd. use the VHS library copies of the
> others, but I had given up on ever getting a subtitled copy of this one.