French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 25 Nov 2006, 17:02

hey,

Riding alone for thousands of miles ("Riding Alone: for a son" is the french title)... Gaumont... no specs yet.

The R3 Era had a reasonably good and subbed making-of but skipped including the trailer. An annoying tendency they've adopted for some releases of Chinese films.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 Dec 2006, 00:08

News:

Satoshi Kon's Paprika has just been released in 50 french movie theaters.

The first reviews are quite positive.

Should I go see this ?

Wasn't a big fan of Millenium Actress, so I'm not sure...

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 09 Dec 2006, 00:28

tom2681 wrote: Should I go see this ?

Wasn't a big fan of Millenium Actress, so I'm not sure...

I recommend trying to see Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent first, as those are far more in tune with Paprika than Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Dec 2006, 14:16

Update:

Wild Side Vidéo from January to Mars:

24/01: 14 Amazons.

02/03: Invisible Waves:

28/03: Eiichi Kudo Boxset:

With "13 Assasins", "The Great Killing" and "Eleven Samurai".

Source: hkmania

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 18 Dec 2006, 15:41

Looks like the french finally discovered roman porno

July 4, 2007 / Cinemalta

- Coffret Roman Porno Vol. 1 (Masaru Konuma)

- Kashin no irezumi: ureta tsubo (1976) (La Vie secrète de Madame Yoshino)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286749/
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... 11211.html
http://www.plume-noire.com/cinema/culte ... entee.html

- Ikenie Fujin (1974) (Wife to Be Sacrificed) (Une Dame a sacrifier)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228419/
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... 21762.html

Coffret Roman Porno Vol. 2 (Noboru Tanaka)

- Jitsuroku Abe Sada (1975) (A Woman Called Sada Abe) (La Veritable Histoire d'Abe Sada)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073208/
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... =5764.html

- Bondage (??) (??) (??)

Coffret Roman Porno Vol. 3 (Tatsumi Kumashiro)

- Akai kami no onna (1979) (The Woman with Red Hair) (La Femme aux cheveux rouges)
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... 15248.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078742/

- Ichijo Sayuri: Nureta yokujo (1972) (Sayuri strip-teaseuse)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0220570/
http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_g ... 17287.html

That's all the info I could find

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 21 Dec 2006, 12:18

What's your source ?

Update:

On January 9th, HK Vidéo will release an anime called Spriggan on DVD.
No idea what it is, but here you go.

On the same day, they'll release the second Contes du Sabre boxset (The Sword of Many Lovers and Handsome Siblings).

In March, they'll release John Woo's Princess Chang Ping and Ronny Yu's Phantom Lover

They've also promised to release 3 Sammo Hung movies in March (but they haven't said which movies).

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 21 Dec 2006, 12:27

I love those covers!

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 21 Dec 2006, 12:29

Spriggan sucks, don't bother with it.

Yi-Long · Post by **Yi-Long** » 21 Dec 2006, 12:56

I agree with Eva: It isnt worth shit. There are a few nice scenes in it, but as soon as they reach the army base near noah's ark, it turns to boring shite...

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 22 Dec 2006, 14:44

Just received the Kitamura box. I usually dislike overly huge boxes but this is something so cool I don't really care.

The content:
Disc 1: Versus + Nervous (short film)
Disc 2: The Ultimate Versus + Nervous II (short film)
Disc 3: Aragami
Disc 4: Heat After Dark (short film) + Bonus material for Aragami
Disc 5: Alive (long version)
Disc 6: Alive (short version) + Messenger (short film)
* each disc includes loads of extras as well

The bad news: the box set fails on it's most important selling point: Ultimate Versus. Picture quality is horrible. I once owned a R2J bootleg (I may or may not still have it somewhere. I killed my Ong Bak bootleg with a hammer some years back, but I can't remeber what I did with Versus. I certainly didn't use hammer again (a piece of Ong Bak almost went through my eye)) and I think this french edition has better (although still poor) colours however the pixelization is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Even the slightest movement makes the image fall appart. Basically every frame looks like it was made of little squares. And I'm viewing the dvd with a 28" TV... Also, the disc plays less than perfectly on my dvd-player. Movement doesn't look as fluent as it should...

The original cut is included as well. It's hard to know how good the image could look, but I'd say not much better than this. Good colors, no pixelization, great presentation (I've only viewed a few scenes so far). It should be noted that the longer version doesn't only feature 10 minutes of new footage, but the soundtrack has been re-done as well. Music for example was re-scored, and if you've only seen the new version it may be hard to go back to this original version as the soundtrack just doesn't sound as good (some of the music is also played a bit differently).

The rest of the transfers would seem to be alright. Both versions of Alive seem watchable although not great. Aragami looks exellent, and the short films are watchable I think.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 22 Dec 2006, 15:24

hey,

I killed my Ong Bak bootleg with a hammer some years back

Good boy.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 22 Dec 2006, 16:11

Knetan wrote:hey,

I killed my Ong Bak bootleg with a hammer some years back
Good boy.

I don't keep bootlegs in my collection

I forgot Messenger from the content list. Updated now.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Dec 2006, 16:15

Lovely packaging for the Kitamura boxset.

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 22 Dec 2006, 17:10

That's about the only thing lovely about it - I've got/seen most of those titles with Eng subs (including Ultimate Versus). Only thing I've not seen is Heat After Dark. An English subbed German R2 disc is floating around somewhere.

Knetan · Post by **Knetan** » 26 Dec 2006, 16:34

hey,

On the same day, they'll release the second Contes du Sabre boxset (The Sword of Many Lovers and Handsome Siblings).

Zzzzzz....BUT...kudos for bothering.

In March, they'll release John Woo's Princess Chang Ping and Ronny Yu's Phantom Lover

Excellent. Phantom Lover needs a better transfer to go along with Tai Seng's subs and extras (multiple commentaries, making of etc etc). Although I can't take advantage of it, any word yet on DTS being featured on this? Hong Kong's first DTS movie.

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 29 Dec 2006, 18:00

The french Aragami is NTSC to PAL and interlaced

That being said, it looks good enough for me. Good colour and contrast.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 29 Dec 2006, 20:03

Despite being NTSC to PAL and interlaced and it looks excellent.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 29 Dec 2006, 20:09

Daaaamn!!! Whoa! The French disc looks totally awesome with all its sharpness. Will post caps of the German disc later. They look nowhere near as good as the French, though.

*I can hear someone say "Don't bother, then!"*

HungFist · Post by **HungFist** » 29 Dec 2006, 20:20

At least one scene has some flickering but it only lasts for short time (10 seconds maybe). Not the most "stable" transfer but it looks quite good to me. No need to upgrade. Maybe people with more high end equipment will have more problems with it, idk.

I don't know how Media Blasters looks like but I doubt it has this good color/contrast.

The R4 seems to be Native PAL. The German disc should be a conversion, too.

R4 is probably the way to go for those who don't own the film yet.

Lourdes · Post by **Lourdes** » 30 Dec 2006, 02:13

Buy the R3K, take 5 minutes to add subtitles, ??????, profit.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 31 Dec 2006, 11:59

Lourdes wrote:Buy the R3K, take 5 minutes to add subtitles, ??????, profit.

Or buy the R4 which already has the subtitles.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 31 Dec 2006, 15:15

Update:

Asian Star, wave 5 (or is it 6 ?).
Anyway, it will happen in April.

-Dragon Tiger Gate (HK - 2006 - Wilson Yip).
-Mob Sister (HK - 2005 - Wong Ching-Po).
-Sars Wars (Thailand - 2004 - Wantha Taweewat).
-Shiver (HK - 2003 - Billy Chung).
-Spiral (I don't know which one).

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 09 Jan 2007, 16:56

Update:

On April 15th, Damo (the korean drama) will FINALLY be released by Asian Fever (they belong to TF1 I think).

With 4 discs and a 56-page booklet.

On March 15th they'll release Colour of Loyalty.

No extras except a couple of trailers AFAIK.

thelostdragon · Post by **thelostdragon** » 09 Jan 2007, 17:06

tom2681 wrote:On April 15th, Damo (the korean drama) will FINALLY be released by Asian Fever (they belong to TF1 I think).

With 4 discs and a 56-page booklet.

LOL, why?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 09 Jan 2007, 17:07

Why not?