French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 19 May 2008, 22:22

Excellent cover art, yeah.

The Cinemalta Tanaka and Konuma doubles are coming in July, finally. I'd post in the exploit thread, but I'm having a Toei page

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 20 May 2008, 13:35

Are there English subs on the ABT set?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 20 May 2008, 20:14

Highly unlikely, Grim. It's HK Vidéo, after all.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 20 May 2008, 20:18

Miracles happen these days. One of Toei's June dvds has english subs...

... although the explanation seems simple. The film in question is not a Toei production, they only distribute the dvd.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 20 May 2008, 21:28

HungFist wrote:Miracles happen these days. One of Toei's June dvds has english subs...

... although the explanation seems simple. The film in question is not a Toei production, they only distribute the dvd.

Great news, but I fail to see what this has to do with French DVD releases?

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 20 May 2008, 21:38

Grim was hoping for a miracle...

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 May 2008, 11:49

Finally a good reason to update the title of this thread:

Fighter in the Wind is getting a Blu-Ray release in France on August 27th.
No specs or cover art yet. All I know is that FITW is a Fox-Pathé-Europa title.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 May 2008, 16:55

Fox would mean DTS-HD MA and if we're lucky extras.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 12 Jun 2008, 00:16

Running Wild (I think that's a korean thriller with Kwon Sang-Woo in the lead and a Kenji Kawai score) is getting a Blu-Ray release in France on August 20th.

Found it on Amazon.fr

I don't even know who's releasing it, but the release date is already set.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 15 Jun 2008, 13:44

Shadowless Sword is (finally!) being released in France on DVD.
August 21st, TF1 Vidéo.

Come on, TF1. Give us a Blu-Ray release to go with it and I'll be the first to buy it.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 27 Jun 2008, 13:34

More Blu-Ray news:
The Banquet is coming to France, courtesy of Sony.

23/09/2008.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Jun 2008, 16:17

Did Sony release the HD-DVD? I presume, no English subs.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 27 Jun 2008, 18:50

Did Sony release the HD-DVD?

There's something wrong with that sentence.
I'll let you figure out what it is.

I presume, no English subs.

Probably not, but you never know.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 27 Jun 2008, 21:05

Oops. Who released the HD-DVD? Oh wait it was Warner, how come the studio changed?

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 28 Jun 2008, 14:33

You know it the rights.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 04 Jul 2008, 20:11

hey,

any further word on the French edition of The Protector?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 04 Jul 2008, 22:01

Yep.

It contains both the US and the HK cut.
Both should feature a cantonese soundtrack and forced french subs.

http://www.dvdrama.com/rw_fiche-9339-.php

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 04 Jul 2008, 22:08

Why are the French subs forced? (I'm speaking generally here) I mean, hardly any UK or US DVDs of HK films have forced subs

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 05 Jul 2008, 09:57

Because French studios are wankers.

Why have contractual forced subs in just Germany and France as practice?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 06 Jul 2008, 03:14

Why would the US cut feature a Cantonese track? Didn't even think there was one?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 07 Jul 2008, 10:27

Don't know, Mark. Just repeating what I've read.

The Swordsman Trilogy has been released, courtesy of HK Vidéo.
The full trilogy has been reviewed here:
http://www.dvdrama.com/rw_fiche-10086-.php

Good PQ, good audio, no extras.
-Swordsman doesn't have the HKL's yellow tint.
-Swordsman 2 doesn't seem to be contrast boosted (same print as the Optimum R2UK, possibly).

Will buy Swordsman 2 and make a comparison.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 08 Jul 2008, 10:58

www.filmsactu.com has reviewed the Swordsman Trilogy.
I'm gonna steal a few of their caps and post them here (hope they won't mind).

Swordsman 1 Megastar vs HK Vidéo:

Swordsman 2 Remastered Mei Ah vs HK Vidéo:

Swordsman 3 Remastered Mei Ah vs HK Vidéo:

Looks fairly decent to me, especially part 2.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 11:12

Part 2 looks similar to the UK DVD, no?

p.s - Cheers Tom.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 08 Jul 2008, 12:24

I'd say it does, yes.

https://www.bulletsnbabesdvd.com/forums/ ... php?t=2011

As soon as I get the HK Vidéo, we'll be able to do a proper comparison between all three versions (R2UK, R3HK remastered and R2FR).

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 08 Jul 2008, 13:54

Glad they got rid of those urine filters.