French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 16 Jul 2008, 11:29

First the Chinese Ghost Story trilogy, then the Better Tomorrow trilogy, then the Swordsman trilogy.

Seven Sept / HK Vidéo / TF1 (they're all pretty much the same) are on a roll.

On september 16th, they'll release the In The Line of Duty saga (the boxset will contain the first 4 films).

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 18 Jul 2008, 19:23

Man, I love hearing the words "french", "asian film" and "blu-ray" in the same sentence.

The Host, November 27th.
http://www.amazon.fr/The-host-Blu-ray/dp/B001CRVY1E/

Hero, September 30th.
http://www.amazon.fr/Hero-Blu-ray-Jet-Li/dp/B001CRVYNW/
Just the TC, though (probably).

House of Flying Daggers, on the same day.
http://www.amazon.fr/secret-poignards-v ... 001CRVYOG/
Probably the censored US cut, though.

Taegukgi, still on september 30th.
http://www.amazon.fr/Freres-sang-Blu-ra ... 001CRVYOQ/
No idea which cut it'll be.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 18 Jul 2008, 19:28

Damn, Bloody Tie too!

Now that's unexpected.
September 10th.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Jul 2008, 19:43

Is Bloody Tie any good? I've never heard of it.

tom2681 wrote:The Host, November 27th.
http://www.amazon.fr/The-host-Blu-ray/dp/B001CRVY1E/

I wonder how it will compare to the USA and UK HD-DVDs/BDs, both have decent transfers and losssless audio. Does the French BD?

tom2681 wrote:House of Flying Daggers, on the same day.
http://www.amazon.fr/secret-poignards-v ... 001CRVYOG/
Probably the censored US cut, though.

How come? Any idea if Sony will remaster it? The USA BD sure needs remastering. It's looks no better than the DVD in places.

tom2681 wrote:Taegukgi, still on september 30th.
http://www.amazon.fr/Freres-sang-Blu-ra ... 001CRVYOQ/
No idea which cut it'll be.

I wonder how it will compare to the Korean BD, with English subs.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 18 Jul 2008, 19:51

Bloody Tie (or "Bloody Ties", it's difficult to be sure since there's no plural in korean) is a fairly soild thriller.

http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26828/bloody-ties/
http://www.kfccinema.com/reviews/action ... yties.html

You really need to be a Ryu Seung-Beom fan to appreciate it, though.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 18 Jul 2008, 20:25

Cheers.

Surely Bloody Ties is better? Bloody Tie sounds like a bad day at work

. Yep it's definitely Bloody Ties, in English anyway.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 19 Jul 2008, 04:22

He should have that tie dry-cleaned TBH.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Jul 2008, 10:43

Distributors often get it wrong when they translate something from Chinese, Korean or Japanese.

I'm pretty sure that Zhang Yimou's Hero isn't "Hero", it should be "Heroes".
And Musa can't be "The Warrior", it's "Warriors".

Every single character in Hero is a hero, just like all the main characters in Musa are warriors. Granted, Jet Li has a bigger part but there's no reason why the title should focus on him alone.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 19 Jul 2008, 10:57

I thought Musa just meant "Warrior", maybe I'm wrong

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Jul 2008, 11:27

Warrior, Warriors, The Warrior... I presume it's all the same in korean.
But you have to choose one when you translate the title.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 19 Jul 2008, 13:09

You're probably right Tom. Personally I use: Musa: The Warrior (or just Musa). So Warrior: Warrior

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tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 25 Jul 2008, 10:43

"Musa-musa". Sounds like something you should say when picking up a phone in Asia.

Is it just me, or does it look like there are two Andy Laus on this HOFD cover?

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 25 Jul 2008, 14:58

Lol, yes.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Jul 2008, 17:52

The Secrecy of Flying Daggers

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tom2681 wrote:"Musa-musa". Sounds like something you should say when picking up a phone in Asia.

True, Japan anyway

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Toge · Post by **Toge** » 01 Sep 2008, 09:26

How does the Ong Bak disc look tom? Any reviews yet? Only came out a few days ago and noticed it on some dodgy websites already...

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 01 Sep 2008, 10:34

Not being a fan of Ong Bak, I haven't followed up on that one.
Chances are it's still the cut Luc Besson version with that crappy french hip-hop soundtrack. Avoid unless you know for sure that it's the original cut.

Joppers · Post by **Joppers** » 03 Sep 2008, 14:37

tom2681 wrote:On september 16th, they'll release the In The Line of Duty saga (the boxset will contain the first 4 films).

If this had English subs I would snap it up. Love the ITLOD films, but only part four has had decent versions produced thus far.

Edit: Actually I'm having a brain fade, there's been HKL versions of 2 & 4, and a Fox version of 1. So just no decent version of part 3, and from what I can see, parts, 5, 6 & 7.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 13 Sep 2008, 13:31

Fong Sai Yuk

http://wildgrounds.com/index.php/2008/0 ... mment-3587

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Sep 2008, 13:41

About bloody time.

ericf · Post by **ericf** » 13 Sep 2008, 18:48

I have the Korean anamorphic release of Fong Sai Yuk 1+2 and it's reported to have the same transfer as the Japanese DVDs.
I don't know if the original film was filmed with a lot of inconsistent focus but the DVD goes from seemingly soft to pretty sharp focus a lot.
Let's hope that this is a new transfer (and color corrected) and that they don't transfer it too bright (Tai-Chi Master was too bright on their DVD. Some of the bright details got lost because of it).

ericf

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 13 Sep 2008, 19:28

It's funny you should say that, as I thought TCM French DVD was a wee bit too bright in places too. Not to the point it bothered me though.

mike dk · Post by **mike dk** » 16 Sep 2008, 11:11

Does anyone know if the french Blu-Ray releases feature english subtitles ? I'm very interessted in Hero.

Also - hopefully House of flying Daggers will not come from the same master as the US release which looked very bad in many parts of the film.

Old Pang Yau · Post by **Old Pang Yau** » 25 Sep 2008, 01:42

EDIT: Oops, misread the "french" part of this post... got too excited about the AMERICAN Shaw Bros blu-rays... sorry!

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 25 Sep 2008, 07:49

Joppers wrote:
tom2681 wrote:On september 16th, they'll release the In The Line of Duty saga (the boxset will contain the first 4 films).
If this had English subs I would snap it up. Love the ITLOD films, but only part four has had decent versions produced thus far.

Edit: Actually I'm having a brain fade, there's been HKL versions of 2 & 4, and a Fox version of 1. So just no decent version of part 3, and from what I can see, parts, 5, 6 & 7.

HKL did no. 1 rather than .2, if we're speaking HK wise!

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 25 Sep 2008, 12:43

Fox released Royal Warriors and ITLOD4 on R1.

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