French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

Killer Meteor · Post by **Killer Meteor** » 12 Jan 2006, 15:40

Nice cover!

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 12 Jan 2006, 16:02

Yeah. Reminds me of Crime Story.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 13 Jan 2006, 00:57

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 14 Jan 2006, 17:48

Because it makes the movie look dark and violent (the way HK police movies are supposed to look).
Not like the german poster (that makes it look like a comedy if I recall).

Kinda like this:

(I borrowed it from you. Hope you don't mind.)

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 27 Jan 2006, 14:54

Muahahahahahahahahahah !!

Update:

After years and years of waiting, HK Vidéo are about to end our torment.
Tsui Hark's The Blade will be released in May 2006.

All we know so far is that it's a 2-Disc edition, and that it will contain interviews with at least Tsui and his screenwriter Koan Hui.

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 27 Jan 2006, 19:34

I really didn't like that movie.

It's the film about a dude with one arm right?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 27 Jan 2006, 20:00

Yeah, its' a remake (?) of a 1967 Chang Cheh movie "The One Armed Swordsman"

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 08 Feb 2006, 10:17

Update:

Asian Star: Wave 4.
April 19th.

Chihwaseon (Drunk on Women and Poetry / Strokes of Fire)
Korea - Im Kwon-Taek - 2002

Raging Years
Korea - Im Kwon-Taek - 2004

Jiang Hu
Hong-Kong - Wong Ching-Po - 2004

PTU
Hong-Kong - Johnnie To - 2003

Happiness of the Katakuris
Japan - Takashi Miike - 2001

Dragon From Russia
Hong-Kong - Clarence Fok - 1990

The release of Attack the Gas Station has been delayed (apparently the negative that Asian Star received wasn't good enough).

I don't know about you guys, but I just LOVE these covers.

Source = DVDRama.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 08 Feb 2006, 11:39

yeah, I was gonna comment on the quality as well: AWESOME COVERS!
Pretty simple, but very strong. The way covers should be.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 08 Feb 2006, 12:44

Those covers look SUPERB IMO

I love the Raging Years and Dragon From Russia ones.

No English subs then Tom?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 08 Feb 2006, 13:23

No English subs then Tom ?

Nope. As usual.

The french subs are removable, though.
That's why some people might be interested in these DVDs.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 08 Feb 2006, 13:45

I really should have done better when I had French in school. I totally sucked at it, and the only reason I (barely) passed that class was because I had made pretty drawings in my excercise book instead of making the assignments...

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 Feb 2006, 02:16

Update:

HK Vidéo will release Sonny Chiba's Street Fighter boxset on March 9th.

(-Street Fighter
- Return of Street Fighter
- Street Fighter Last Revenge
- Sister Street Fighter)

Anamorphic 2:35 transfer.
Original japanese 2.0 Mono track.
Forced player-generated french subs.

I know I'm repeating myself, but I just love these recent french covers. 8)

Source = HKMania.

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 16 Feb 2006, 23:17

Raging Years is shite btw. What a dreadful movie.

Nice covers...

Some French R2 release dates:

Save the Green Planet 20th March
Aragami 8th March
2LDK 8th March
Dead or Alive III 21st March
The Eye II 21st March
Gojoe 21st March
Oldboy 21st March

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 16 Feb 2006, 23:46

Raging Years is shite btw. What a dreadful movie.

Im Kwon-Taek's style is difficult to appreciate at first, I know.

Try some of his other movies... They kinda grow on you after a while.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 25 Feb 2006, 00:09

Update:

Well, New Police Story is about to be released, and a detailed review is already out:

http://www.dvdrama.com/fiche.php?6096

Yeah, yeah, I know it's all in french, but you can still look at the pretty pictures.

They gave the picture a 10/10 (knowing how HK Vidéo treat the negatives from recent movies, I'm not that surprised).
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the HK Vidéo transfer was massively superior to the Joy Sales disc.
There's a DTS track for both the french and cantonese soundtracks.
The french subtitles are probably perfect (none of the hiccups from the Joy Sales disc).

The extras are pretty much the same as on the HK disc, except that they're subtitled.

+ It's not so expensive for a french DVD (25€).

I'm getting it as soon as it's released.
We'll see if HKL can do better.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 25 Feb 2006, 00:48

Update:

This is the cover for Save The Green Planet, soon to be released by Studio Canal:

It's not a great cover but at least the transfer won't be a NTSC-> PAL conversion.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 27 Feb 2006, 16:11

Update:

Kumite, a french magazine about asian movies, have announced that they will include the first DVD from the Korean TV show Damo in their next issue. (

)

If I'm not mistaken, this could be the first ever DVD release of a korean TV show in France.

Review: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=15492

Source: http://www.forum-hkmania.com/index.php?showtopic=9805

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 28 Feb 2006, 23:55

Don't you just LOVE this poster:

Wu Ji looks so much better than The Promise IMHO.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Mar 2006, 09:50

Yeah but the subtitle - "The Legend of the Fighters of the Wind" (?)

memetic · Post by **memetic** » 01 Mar 2006, 11:00

Tom2681 wrote:Kumite, a french magazine about asian movies, have announced that they will include the first DVD from the Korean TV show Damo in their next issue. ( )

Sounds like good news. Who will be releasing the entire series in France?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 01 Mar 2006, 13:59

but the subtitle - "The Legend of the Fighters of the Wind"

The legend of the riders of the wind.
I know it sounds daft, but it sounds better in french than in english.

Who will be releasing the entire series in France?

It's a label called Elephant.
The "Asian Premiums" label (Bichunmoo, My Wife is A Gangster) belongs to them.
And since their version of MWIAG was magnificent, I'd say this is good news.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 01 Mar 2006, 16:31

Tom2681 wrote:
but the subtitle - "The Legend of the Fighters of the Wind"
The legend of the riders of the wind.
I know it sounds daft, but it sounds better in french than in english.

Merci Tom

Didnt realise it meant "Fighters" (probably confused "cavalier" with "chevalier" (horse-rider)

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 02 Mar 2006, 16:04

I'm a bit confused with the french releases for Goyokin. Maybe someone could help me with this.

First there is the 2 disc version: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 04-5608929
Then there's the one disc version of the same (I assume): http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 04-5608929
But what is this?: http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 04-5608929

I'm thinking about getting the french release as the new R1 release isn't that good (according to dvdbeaver).

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 02 Mar 2006, 16:20

1. 2-Disc edition, December 2004.
2. Single-disc pocket edition, September 2005.
3. OOP single-disc edition, March 2004.

Note that the pocket edition has no extras whatsoever. That's why it costs 16€ (which is very cheap for a french DVD).

There's a very positive DVD review on HKMania:
http://www.hkmania.com/fistsword/films/goyokin.htm