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| Author: | thelostdragon [ 04 Jan 2007, 02:07 ] |
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Lourdes wrote: Instead of someone urinating on your martial arts master the shogun raped and killed your family. Depending on which Shôgun is being portrayed, he he he! There were also the good ones (well, kind of). Quote: But the same sort of 'cheap' thrills.
This also depends on the type of film if you ask me. Sure, if you look at all these Tokugawa female prison films, they are probably all cheaply written etc. But I can't find such cheap thrills in a film like "The Twilight Samurai" or the Kurosawa epics. If I had to compare "Lady Snowblood" with a film that is more widely known, it would be Kitano's "Zatôichi" minus the humour and plus the drama of "Kozure Okami". |
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| Author: | bradavon [ 04 Jan 2007, 02:41 ] |
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Thanks guys. I quite liked Zatoichi. Okay I should give this ago (for the Kill Bill connections if nothing else), so on two part two of my question: bradavon wrote: 1. Which is the best English subtitled DVD and why? If the Japanese has English subs except for that.
p.s - Is there UK R2? How does the R4 fare? Checking here: http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=5965 http://www.madman.com.au/actions/catalo ... ethod=view The R1 looks to be the best of a bad English friendly bunch: R1 - Uncut, anamorphic and Uncropped but lousy PQ UK R1 - Non-anamorphic R4 - Anamorphic but cropped to 1.77:1. Or should I get the box set? What's Lady Snowblood 2 like? |
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| Author: | thelostdragon [ 04 Jan 2007, 08:30 ] |
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I am not quite sure, but when I bought the R1 Animeigo, it used to be the best version around. But then again, that was probably a few weeks after its release date. I have never watched the second part. |
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| Author: | EvaUnit02 [ 04 Jan 2007, 10:01 ] |
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R4 Lady Snowblood 1&2 are NTSC-PAL. |
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| Author: | HungFist [ 04 Jan 2007, 15:02 ] |
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Brad, I'm not so sure you'd enjoy Lady Snowblood. But it indeed was a major influence to Kill Bill. Among others: Story: a young woman goes after 5 villains who killed her family Structure: divined into chapters Music: Meiko Kaji's Flower of Carnage Training: old priest gives her martial arts training Other: death list, some of the dialogue, identical shots etc. Some of the screencaps I took a million years ago. Slight Spoilers for both films (Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Lady Snowblood 1 
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| Author: | tom2681 [ 04 Jan 2007, 15:27 ] |
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Thanks for the caps. As expected, Tarantino has no imagination whatsoever. He can't create, he can only copy. |
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| Author: | grim_tales [ 04 Jan 2007, 16:18 ] |
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What's wrong with paying homage? I haven't seen LS either but I'd like to see where the KB inspiration came from. So the R1 is best right? |
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| Author: | EvaUnit02 [ 04 Jan 2007, 16:42 ] |
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grim_tales wrote: What's wrong with paying homage? But that's all he seems to do really. That and write witty dialogue about pop culture.
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| Author: | bradavon [ 04 Jan 2007, 22:09 ] |
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Except for Jackie Brown that is, oh wait that wasn't his idea too 
Not that I care much except for KB2 I love all his films. EvaUnit02 wrote: R4 Lady Snowblood 1&2 are NTSC-PAL. Thanks. The cropping on part 1 at least puts me off before I even consider that. HungFist wrote: Brad, I'm not so sure you'd enjoy Lady Snowblood.
Because it's technically a cheap B-Movie? My god it's City on Fire all over again . That's an almost scene for scene rip off. I'd love to see it for that reason alone.
Thanks for the captures Hung. |
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| Author: | bradavon [ 04 Jan 2007, 22:10 ] |
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So has anyone seen LS2? I presume that's not in KB as much? grim_tales wrote: So the R1 is best right?
For the reasons I mentioned above it looks like it. |
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| Author: | bradavon [ 04 Jan 2007, 22:20 ] |
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Pity the R1 is £10 from DVDP 
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| Author: | HungFist [ 05 Jan 2007, 13:52 ] |
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The sequel is generally considered disappointing, but I found it a rather solid genre film. I think I rated it 3,5 or even 4 out of five. I don't recall KB borrowing from LS2. Although it was a long time ago when I last saw it... the comparison: http://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=2587 |
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| Author: | TheVermillionPrince [ 19 Jan 2007, 14:40 ] |
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Actually, the Madman releases are both in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen. They're listed incorrectly on both the website and the packaging. And they also come with Cast & Crew Interviews, which were done a few years ago, for the japanese releases. No-one other than the japanese got those. The packaging is probably the best out of all the releases. I got the 2 DVD Box-Set. Very nicely done. It's definitely the one to get! Here : 
http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/784259 |
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| Author: | EvaUnit02 [ 19 Jan 2007, 14:47 ] |
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Welcome to the boards, Vermilion. TheVermillionPrince wrote: Actually, the Madman releases are both in 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen. That's all well and good, but it is still an NTSC-PAL conversion (for both 1&2). They prolly look fine when interlaced but when viewed in progressive scan there'll prolly be ghosting/blurring when there's frantic movement on screen.
They're listed incorrectly on both the website and the packaging. And they also come with Cast & Crew Interviews, which were done a few years ago, for the japanese releases. No-one other than the japanese got those. The packaging is probably the best out of all the releases. I got the 2 DVD Box-Set. Very nicely done. It's definitely the one to get! |
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| Author: | HungFist [ 19 Jan 2007, 16:20 ] |
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And as far as I know the R4's are based on the ugly R1 transfers 
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| Author: | HungFist [ 20 Jan 2007, 12:22 ] |
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When it comes to packaging and art work, nothing can beat the Toho releases. Some scans from covers, cards etc. that come with the two dvds 
there's more, just didn't bother to scan everything |
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| Author: | slasher13 [ 20 Jan 2007, 12:54 ] |
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Very nice indeed, just wished R2 Japan dvd provide english subtitles...
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| Author: | bradavon [ 20 Jan 2007, 13:46 ] |
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HungFist wrote: And as far as I know the R4's are based on the ugly R1 transfers
Is this confirmed? I'm only interested in the R1 or R4 and could easily live with NTSC-PAL if the R4 has otherwise a better transfer. Both are about equal price wise, to the UK anyway. |
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| Author: | HungFist [ 20 Jan 2007, 14:19 ] |
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bradavon wrote: HungFist wrote: And as far as I know the R4's are based on the ugly R1 transfers Is this confirmed? No. I think I heard or read it somewhere, but can't be 100% sure. bradavon wrote: Both are about equal price wise, to the UK anyway.
The UK disc looks awful: http://web12.dvd2web.de/snowblood/snowblood.htm |
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| Author: | HungFist [ 20 Jan 2007, 14:22 ] |
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Found it: "I buy easterneye dvd. It use animeigo master It has kaji meiko and koike kazuo interview from japanese dvd" - http://adg.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=320 |
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