Lovers Lost (Japan, 1982) - Kinji Fukasaku

[diceman]

Lovers Lost tells the poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a 19-year-old college student.
- www.HKFlix.com

Need opinions, thanks!

[HungFist]

I don't know anything about the film, but Panorama dvds from that era used to be really poor (bad picture quality, often cropped or even full screen). There's a remastered R2J by Shochiku. You might still be able to find the limited time low priced version somewhere... at least yesasia often sells these even after the "expiration date"...

[diceman]

Thanks.
But buying a Japanese DVD is too high a risk for a movie I'll probably be watching just once. I just had the opportunity to trade the Panorama-Disc, and so I did. Basically got it for nothing. I'll get back to you, when I've watched it. And, yeah, apparently it's full screen (if not letterboxed; at least that's what I've read somewhere else).

If I truly dig it, though, I can still rip the subs and buy a better one.

[Shingster]

Most of those "century of Japanese cinema" DVDs from Panorama were letterboxed 1.85:1, most of the cropping that took place was from 2.35:1 down to 1.85:1, but most of the titles were indeed OAR.