I totally missed your post. Gomennasai.Ivan Drago wrote:I may have missed it but is there a Japanese DVD of The Bodyguard Kiba with Sonny Chiba?
Someone's working on the sub scripts, I believe. The source is probably the old video search of miami bootlegs.tolpol wrote:Why is that ? Are there English subbed releases available ?HungFist wrote:I was already giving a half-serious thought on subbing parts 2-4, but now seems like I won't have to bother after all
According to this Wikipedia entry and this fan page, Teruo Ishii directed the 1st and the 6th episode of Lone wolf and cub Tv.Classique wrote: Apparently Teruo Ishii directs one or more of the episodes on the disc
but Media Blasters fails to inform us which one.
Any chance you can figure out for me which of the five episodes he directed?
Nice. Odd that they use the English titles though, rather than romanised Japanese or straight translation. Nice to know they use Tarantino's name to sell these anywhere in the worldHungFist wrote:More Nordic Toho Chambara. Apparently the R2J transfers but without windowboxing. Most likely conversions, too. Nice covers, though.
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Thanks for the info.izo wrote:
I don't know who is 土居通芳
- http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/cinema- ... -classics/Over the past year or so Cinema Epoch have quietly built themselves into one tasty little boutique label for fans of unusual film, particularly of the Asian variety, and the menu just expanded considerably. The company picked up a fistful of classic titles at the recent Cannes Marche Du Film and will be bringing all of them to DVD in 2009 with brand new anamorphic transfers taken from new prints of the films. What have they got?
BAD GIRL MAKO (Furyo Shojo Mako) (1971)
Director: Koreji Kurahara
Cast: Junko Natsu
Cult classic from Nikkatsu Studios. Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a nightclub everynight with her bad company. When her lover Hideo is murdered by the gang, Mako swears vengeance on all of those responsible.
TALE OF SORROW AND SADNESS (Hishu Monogatari) (1977)
Director: Seijun Suzuki
Cast: Kyoko Enami, Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada
Seijun Suzuki’s sole directorial effort from the 1970s follows a professional model poised for success in the golfing magazine fashion world. Pure Suzuki madness ensues when she is confronted by a sexy female blackmailer.
YELLOW FANGS (Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi) (1990)
Director: Sonny Chiba/Kinji Fukasaku
Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada, Bunta Sugawara
Yuki’s family is killed by a huge maneating bear, and her childhood friend Eiji and his fellow hunters set off in search of the murderous beast. Although she cannot join them as women are forbidden from entering the mountains, she is determined to pursue a perilous quest for revenge. Based on a true story.
THE HEARTBREAK YAKUZA (Saraba itoshiki hito yo) (1987)
Director: Masato Harada
Cast: Hiromi Go, Mariko Ishihashi, Kazuya Kimura, Koichi Sato
A precursor to John Woo’s “The Killer” about an up and coming Yakuza member who accidentally blinds a childhood friend during a shootout. An impressive early work by director Masato Harada. The Japanese title was later used as a Sony Playstation game.
I own too many DVDsHungFist wrote:You don't remember what dvds you own?
Yeah the badly compressed DVD-5 problem is exactly the reason why I avoided those releases. I did want to buy a fair few of the titles, but thought i'd wait and see what made it to R1 land.At least IVL used dvd-9 with those Toei films, unlike with the Kadokawa releases. The sad truth was that my custom dvd-5 discs (created from the R2J's) had much better compression than those commercial IVL Kadokawa dvds, although they used the same source material as the R2J's.
... and it just got crazier. November: 4 Hiroyuki Sanada films, including the long awaited Roaring Fire, and Shadow Warriors season 2HungFist wrote:
What a crazy Toei year it is...
