French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 24 May 2006, 22:40

Too bad. I know a taiwanese cut exists.

But yeah, time to update ( I hate you, Tom

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thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 May 2006, 22:53

Tom2681 wrote:Still the HK Vidéo Hard-Boiled DVD is worth every penny.
It's so much better than all the other editions:
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompar ... boiled.htm

Wait until you have seen the German version.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 24 May 2006, 22:55

They both use the same print, sleepy-head.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 24 May 2006, 23:00

But they did a better re-mastering job.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 24 May 2006, 23:04

Wanna compare ? :twisted:

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 26 May 2006, 13:12

Small update on Lady Vengeance:

The first disc (with the colour version) will contain a french DTS track but no korean DTS.

The second disc (with Park's preferred fade-to-black version) will contain a korean DTS track but no french DTS.

HK Vidéo aren't letting us down.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 26 May 2006, 13:13

Huh? But no 5.1? On neither disc?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 26 May 2006, 13:17

No, of course both discs will contain DD 5.1 tracks in both french and korean.
I was just talking about DTS.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 26 May 2006, 13:20

Doesn't this take a lot of disc space and hence reduce the video quality? I mean you'll have 2 5.1 and two DTS tracks on those discs. Maybe a commentary, too.

The second disc might not suffer as much from that as the first one, due to the frequent loss of colour.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 26 May 2006, 13:26

Normally I would agree with you but HK Vidéo are the masters of video compression.

Sympathy for Mr Vengeance had 5 tracks... including 2 DTS tracks, 2 DD 5.1 tracks and an audio commentary.
And yet there wasn't the slightest hint of compression artefacts.

I'm sure they can fit 2 audio commentaries on one DVD if they remove one of the DTS tracks (that's what they did apparently):

Disc 1:
Theatrical cut.
DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1 in french, korean DD 5.1
Subtitled Park Chan-Wook and Lee Young-Ae commentary.
Subtitled Park Chan-Wook and crew commentary.

Disc 2:
Director's cut (fade to black).
DD 5.1 and DTS 5.1 in korean, french DD 5.1
Park Chan-Wook introduction.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 26 May 2006, 19:14

Update on Casshern (yes, I know nobody cares

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2-Disc edition to be released on july 10th.

Disc 1:
2:35 anamorphic transfer, French DD 5.1, Japanese DD 5.1 and Japanese DTS.

Disc 2:
Cast and crew interviews, deleted scenes with audio commentary.

I'll make the Ultimate Casshern comparison in july. 8)

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 26 May 2006, 21:50

The Mission TF1

Not bad. Especially since the HK disc is supposed to be terrible

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 26 May 2006, 22:09

hey,

here's some small indications of that. From Mei Ah's supposed remaster. Not a 16:9 one, they just managed to replace a screwed up dvd with yet another. It has a burned in square of some sorts, visible in dark shots.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 26 May 2006, 22:11

The German disc of "The Mission" is quite good in my opinion and decent enough for me.

As for "Casshern"... I liked the film, Tom. In fact gave it 3.5/5, which is as much as I gave "X-Men 3". But I'm fine with my HK disc.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 30 May 2006, 17:49

Full Contact... HK Video... July 5th

Comes with a 60 page booklet.

It better have the original soundtrack. I'm pretty sure it will, but I'm still gonna wait and see before ordering it

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 May 2006, 22:49

Full Contact... HK Video... July 5th

How...Why...Where...When ? How come I didn't know about this ?

EDIT:
WOW ! A super-duper 2-disc edition ?!
I'm glad I didn't buy the HKL.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 31 May 2006, 14:11

Update:

Looks like HK Vidéo are finally waking up.
First Lady Vengeance, then Full Contact, and now...

The Kung-Fu saga volume 5:
Millionaire's Express and Eastern Condors.

I doubt that the HK Vidéo MEX will match the HKL (still, I wonder what cut they'll use), but I'll buy the boxset for EC.
Finally a proper uncut version with mono sound and proper subs.

The FOX had dubtitles (IIRC) and bad sound.
The HKL was cut and the sound was muffled.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 31 May 2006, 14:16

Maybe they'll create the longest version ever of MEX.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 31 May 2006, 14:20

Or maybe I will.

I seriously doubt they'll use the same cut as HKL, so I'm thinking:

* Take the HKL *
* Add the scenes that are extended in the HK Vidéo *

* Create "Millionaire's Express: The extended furry cut DVD" *

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 31 May 2006, 22:02

Tom any chance you could translate this please?

http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/B ... 71-3934659

Thanks you're a legend.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 31 May 2006, 22:17

What do you want ? The title or the specs ? or both ?
Bah, here goes:

Wong Fei-Hung by Lau Kar-Leung (I had talked about this boxset a while ago) : Challenge of the masters + Martial Club (aka Instructors of Death)

Set for a July 4th release by Wild Side Vidéo.

2:35 anamorphic transfer.
Original mandarin and french mono tracks.
Forced player-generated french subtitles.

Extras:
Cinéma HK: a documentary on Shaw Brothers Kung Fu movies.
A documentary on Wong Fei-Hung.
A Robert Mak portrait (could be an animated bio or an interview).
A Gordon Liu Chia-Hui portrait (ditto).
Photo galleries.
Trailers.
Filmographies.

Sounds nice.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 01 Jun 2006, 05:34

Holy Crap! That's one of the best looking covers EVER! Damnnnnn...

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 01 Jun 2006, 10:59

Agreed. The cover looks stunningly great. Never heard of the films, though. Does Gordon Liu play Fei-hung in these?

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 01 Jun 2006, 15:03

hey,

Challenge Of The Masters is my favourite Lau Kar-leung film as it operates on levels of excellent action and poignant themes surrounding the martial arts.

Martial Club is more a comedy follow-up in the sense that Gordon reprises the WFH character and instead it's Johnny Wang that shines in his role. As always, quality action by the master of this type of cinema; Pops.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 01 Jun 2006, 15:15

Knetan wrote: Johnny Wang

Hehe, wang. *giggles*

Francis Ng looks super-gay in this pic.