French DVDs and Blu-Rays of Asian Movies

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 03 Oct 2005, 02:51

News:

First french review of the HK edition of Seven Swords is available here:

http://www.dvdrama.com/rw_fiche-5611-0-seven-swords.php

For those who don't speak french:

- Picture quality is astounding.
- Sound quality is good except for a weird mixing of the dialogue track (but no DTS).
- Extras are crappy but subtitled in english.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 09:26

Update:

Studio Canal have finally announced the DVD release date for Takashi Miike's Zebraman and Ryu Seung-Wan's Arahan:
January 2006.

At the same time they've announced the release of Friend and Champion on November 14th:

BiscLimpkit · Post by **BiscLimpkit** » 17 Oct 2005, 11:34

EvaUnit02 wrote:Isn't Natural City supposed to be shit? Hell, isn't entire wave of recent CGI backdrop films supposed to be utterly naff (Except Sin City - which rocks)? Natural City, Sky Captain, Immortel, Casshern....

Sin City and Sky Captain are very good. The rest are pretty abysmal. I saw Immortel and wondered if it was quite a clever film. I don't think it is, therefore yeah - it also sucks.

There's a new digital backlot film to look out for, which I quite enjoyed (well it's around 90% digital backlot). Mirrormask.

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 17 Oct 2005, 14:19

Edison Chen AND the director of Battle Royale 2(!)

Remind me when this comes out........... so I can miss it!!

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 14:31

I knew you'd be thrilled.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 17 Oct 2005, 14:43

What film is Mark talking about?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 17 Oct 2005, 15:29

On this page, a few posts up:
I posted some info about Fukasaku Kenta's next film.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 17 Oct 2005, 19:58

Markgway wrote:Edison Chen AND the director of Battle Royale 2(!)

Remind me when this comes out........... so I can miss it!!

Only problem there is that Edison Chen can't act for shit.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 Oct 2005, 10:31

RRAAAHHHHRGGGHHHHHH !!!!

*Chokes on a doughnut while reading french dvd news *

Wild Side has recently announced the release of Drunken Master 2 (YES YES YES !) in a Lau Kar-Leung boxset for June or July 2006.

Of course we can expect a newly restored 2:35 anamorphic print and the original cantonese mono track.

*Dances like a madman*

YES !

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Oct 2005, 10:35

But no English subs!!
Booo! :crybaby:

DAMN YOU... DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL....

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 Oct 2005, 11:02

Grim wrote:DAMN YOU... DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL....

Vive la France !

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Oct 2005, 11:28

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 30 Oct 2005, 17:10

Tom2681 wrote:Wild Side has recently announced the release of Drunken Master 2 (YES YES YES !) in a Lau Kar-Leung boxset for June or July 2006.

I'll quickly get over it

Tom2681 wrote:At the same time they've announced the release of Friend and Champion on November 14th

Phew and Phew, both already have decent 2 disc English subbed versions.

Tom2681 wrote:Gingko Bed

The Legend of Gingko

Are these any good?

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 30 Oct 2005, 17:20

Gingko Bed is from the director of Shiri (I think?)

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 30 Oct 2005, 20:13

Haven't seen Gingko Bed but I've heard it was close to Blood Rain (Korea 2005).
Which doesn't mean much if you haven't seen it I guess.

Legend of Gingko is a Swordplay / Ghost Film in the same vein as Legend of the Evil Lake or Bride with White Hair.

Brad wrote:Phew and Phew

I didn't say "buy it". I'm just giving a list of all major releases.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 06 Nov 2005, 01:28

Tom2681 wrote: Wild Side has recently announced the release of Drunken Master 2 (YES YES YES !) in a Lau Kar-Leung boxset for June or July 2006.

Of course we can expect a newly restored 2:35 anamorphic print and the original cantonese mono track

DAMN YOU CHEESE FRENCHIES!!!!!!1111 WARNER AND MIRAMAXE NEED TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111111111111111 :shock:

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 06 Nov 2005, 12:01

Agreed but why Warner?

Tom2681 wrote:I didn't say "buy it". I'm just giving a list of all major releases.

I know.

The main reason you post is to gloat

hence it's nice not to let you occasionally

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 06 Nov 2005, 17:06

Agreed but why Warner?

They've released DM2 in Hong-Kong but w/o english subs.

it's nice not to let you gloat occasionally

You're probably right. An overdose of gloating might be hazardous for my health.
Now I wish I wasn't born in the land of HK Vidéo, TF1, and Wild Side Vidéo.

NOT !

*Gloats*

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 06 Nov 2005, 18:25

Tom2681 wrote:They've released DM2 in Hong-Kong but w/o english subs.

You can't blame WB for that then, not really. It is meant for the ASIAN market.

IMO the OOP HK DVD is still the best for English speakers. The dubbing on the Disney versions is awful. Even if it does looks gorgeous.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 06 Nov 2005, 18:44

IMO the OOP HK DVD is still the best for English speakers

Yep, too bad it's cropped to a 1:66 aspect ratio.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Nov 2005, 18:51

Tom when you say HK DVD do you mean the Thakaral DVD I have?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 06 Nov 2005, 18:55

Yep, that's the one.

grim_tales · Post by **grim_tales** » 06 Nov 2005, 18:58

I feel important now.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 06 Nov 2005, 21:54

It's more like 1.75:1. If memory serves me correctly it's definitely not 1.66:1. You get used to the cropping.

I've only seen DM2 twice (Disney R1 then Thakaral) and that was enough. Dull + Overrated film.

grim_tales wrote:Tom when you say HK DVD do you mean the Thakaral DVD I have?

Tom didn't say the HK DVD I did

Sorry for the confusion though as the WB DVD is also a HK DVD.

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 06 Nov 2005, 21:55

Update:

The list of titles for the 4th and 5th Asian Star waves has been finalized.

April 2006: 7 Titles:
-PTU (Johnnie To)
-You Shoot I Shoot (Edmond Pang)
-Shiver (Billy Chung)
-Raging Years (Korea - Im Kwon-Taek)
-Chaos (Hideo Nakata)
-Spiral (Joji Lida)
-Guys from Paradise (Takashi Miike)

June 2006: 7 Titles:
-Seven Swords
-Yesterday Once More (Johnnie To)
-Wicked City (Peter Mak)
-August Rhapsody (Kurosawa)
-Happiness of the Katakuris (Miike)
-Quiet Family (Kim Jee-Won)
-Nor Chor the Prisoner (Thailand)