French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 07 Oct 2006, 13:20

hey,

no version AFAIK reinstated the cut footage. Ebola Syndrome has the same problem but for years I gathered Herman Yau himself said the cut stuff was tossed. Miles Wood recently said that after talkes with Yau, there might be a chance the footage still exist in some shape or form. So, go hunt. If Joy Sales were going to pick up some of these signature Cat III movies, they should indeed go hunt in the vaults.

I've also gathered that there is a freedom when it comes to home video to release uncut prints but it's a matter of bringing the effort to the table. With HK dvd companies, very little exists in that regard although I have to applaud Universe for some of their Cat III releases that had reinstead, lesser quality footage inserted (Brother Of Darkness for instance). Daughter Of Darkness was good to get SEVERAL scenes back in as well but it was still missing the famous multiple stabbing that was in the otherwise truncated laserdisc. what a mess.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 07 Oct 2006, 15:50

The search for uncut Cat III movies is like the search for Tsui Hark's original cut of "Don't play with Fire".

The only footage you'll find is probably an old dirty VHS with a mandarin soundtrack.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 07 Oct 2006, 16:27

hey,

seeing as Gans did just that with Don't play with fire, I'll take that solution. You who won't take anything but HD, DTS 8.5 quality, go away.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 07 Oct 2006, 16:38

Hey,

Can you translate your post into english ?

Several key words seem to be missing.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 07 Oct 2006, 16:53

hey,

understanding post is an overrated thingie...

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 07 Oct 2006, 17:00

Hey I like HK Vidéo's Don't Play with Fire too.

It just looks crap, that's all...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Oct 2006, 20:28

thelostdragon wrote:The UK disc is cut? Or cut down in respect of the fact that there is only one disc? The German disc does only have 1 disc, too. Why? Idiots.

That Memoirs of a Geisha lost most of the extras to fit it on 1 disc. No it's not cut.

thelostdragon wrote:DVD Compare says the HK disc is uncut?
http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/film.php?fid=2803

That sounds uncut to me, just like Tomorrow Never Dies is uncut. More footage exists but it was cut in the editing suite.

It doesn't count IMO.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 08 Oct 2006, 20:46

hey,

brad, Raped By An Angel was censored in order to even get a Category III rating in HK. Period. Nothing to do with editing or fine-tuning the film.

Unless I'm misreading you totally?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Oct 2006, 14:33

So much bruhaha over some derivative exploitation films.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 09 Oct 2006, 15:28

hey,

I would say Billy's Run and Red To Kill are strong in every sense of the word. Ebola a foul classic.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 09 Oct 2006, 15:42

EvaUnit02 wrote:So much bruhaha over some derivative exploitation films.

You think some other genre would deserve more bruhaha than exploitation?

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Oct 2006, 22:44

HungFist wrote:
EvaUnit02 wrote:So much bruhaha over some derivative exploitation films.
You think some other genre would deserve more bruhaha than exploitation?

Something with a much lower shit to gold ratio and by it's very nature Exploitation is 90% shit. Eg Pinky Violence? LOL.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 10 Oct 2006, 13:20

Do you have any idea what you're talking about? How many Pinky Violence movies have you seen?

I don't know exactly what I'm talking about either. My limited knowledge of exploitation is limited japanese films. But so far I haven't seen a single bad film. Except some new Zero Woman flick which I accidentally ended up watching, but that doesn't count, it was made in the 90's

I'm not saying there's isn't an awful lot of crappy movies in the genre. But there's hundreds of good movies and dozens of masterpieces made in Japan only. No other genre has ever given the directors such freedom. Include 5 sex scenes and 12 pairs of boobs, after that you can do pretty much what ever you want. That's why many of the most innovative, artistic and visually mindblowing movies of the 70's were made in the exploitation genre.

The best genre in the world by far.

Sorry for off topic. I don't know anything about HK exploitation. But I'm interested. Anthony Wong seems like a perfect actor for the genre.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 10 Oct 2006, 16:04

hey,

talents within movies such as Daughter of Darkness and Brother Of Darkness are definitely Lily Chung and Ben Ng. The former being not only gorgeous but undeniably talented. Not always the easiest thing to break out of a Category III mark.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Oct 2006, 14:00

News:

French trailer for The Host - Quicktime format:
(no dialogue / no subs)
http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/13042/v1/q ... _vf_hd.mov

Coming to french theaters on November 22nd.

WARNING ! THIS TRAILER IS FULL OF SPOILERS !

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:22

Let me know if you hear anything about Asian Star re-releasing Samurai trilogy. I think I'm gonna pass it (I wanna put my money on some Teruo Ishii films right now) and wait for individual releases. I can't believe they'd only release a box set limited to 2000 copies... would that even pay back the remastering costs?

btw, why haven't the french released any Shunji Iwai films. Are they stupid or what?

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:28

HungFist wrote:Let me know if you hear anything about Asian Star re-releasing Samurai trilogy.

Rather read the book. Much better than the films.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 19 Oct 2006, 15:41

@Hung:
According to a thread on the ADVDG forum, alapage.com ship to other countries.
If you really want the boxset, you should try them.

BTW: Asia-Diffusion have updated the status of the boxset to "Out-of-print".

About Iwai... expect Asian Star to release some of his stuff in 2007.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 20 Oct 2006, 13:36

For fucks sake, now asia-diffusion is selling samurai trilogy again... And I made my asia-diffusion order yesterday. Can't cancel it, can't combine with a new order (I guess) and I sure as hell won't pay additional 8€ for shipping.

Fuck them, fuck samurai trilogy.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 20 Oct 2006, 13:46

For fucks sake, now asia-diffusion is selling samurai trilogy again

And I made my asia-diffusion order yesterday.

Alapage, you mean ?

Bad timing, happened to me lots of times.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 20 Oct 2006, 15:04

tom2681 wrote: Alapage, you mean ?

No, asia-diffusion. By "my order" I mean my "french order", not samurai trilogy.

The shipping is 10€ for the first item and 2€ for each additional (box sets count as one). That's why I'm not gonna make another order anytime soon. I usually wait for months and then order 4-5 dvds at once. This time I only ordered one item, but that 6 Disc Kitamura Pack looks like something worth the 10€ shipping

I need to make another french order before the end of the year. So many dvds to buy. Full Contact, Shanghai Blues, Wicked Priest, Tokyo Decadence, Touch of Zen, HK Video Cat III films...

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 20 Oct 2006, 15:42

hey,

ordered Raining In The Mountain from alapage. Fingers crossed they actually have it.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 25 Oct 2006, 02:21

Update:

Anybody know Mikio Naruse ?
Wild Side have released a Naruse boxset yesterday:

-Le Repas (Meshi / The Repast)
-Nuages Flottants (Ukigumo / Floating Clouds)
-Nuages d'été (Iwashigumo / Summer Clouds)

http://www.dvdrama.com/rw_fiche-6990-.php

Looks awesome.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 26 Oct 2006, 00:35

News:

Coupla weeks ago I gave you a french trailer for The Host:

http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/13042/v1/q ... _vf_hd.mov

Now there's a french trailer for Perhaps Love (which will be released theatrically over here in November):

http://a69.g.akamai.net/n/69/13042/v1/q ... ost_hd.mov

French subtitles only (but there's just 1 line of dialogue anyway).
It sure makes me want to see it.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 31 Oct 2006, 21:46

Update:

CTV - 2007:

-Initial D in march.
-Typhoon in april.
-Mongolian Ping-Pong in april.
-Shadowless Sword in may (yahoo !).
-Naked Weapon in june.