Bullets 'n' Babes DVD

Depending on which Shôgun is being portrayed, he he he! There were also the good ones (well, kind of).


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".

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:



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?

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.

R4 Lady Snowblood 1&2 are NTSC-PAL.

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

Thanks for the caps.
As expected, Tarantino has no imagination whatsoever. He can't create, he can only copy.

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?

But that's all he seems to do really. That and write witty dialogue about pop culture.

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.


Thanks. The cropping on part 1 at least puts me off before I even consider that.


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.

So has anyone seen LS2? I presume that's not in KB as much?


For the reasons I mentioned above it looks like it.

Pity the R1 is £10 from DVDP

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

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

Welcome to the boards, Vermilion.
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.

And as far as I know the R4's are based on the ugly R1 transfers

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

Very nice indeed, just wished R2 Japan dvd provide english subtitles...

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.

No. I think I heard or read it somewhere, but can't be 100% sure.



The UK disc looks awful:
http://web12.dvd2web.de/snowblood/snowblood.htm

Found it: "I buy easterneye dvd. It use animeigo master It has kaji meiko and koike kazuo interview from japanese dvd"

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