All 28 Godzilla films finally released June-July 2014!

[Mikallica]

It's finally happened everyone! All 28 Godzilla films being released this summer on Blu-ray. Not only that, they're re-releasing the 2009-2010 editions with proper Blu-ray transfers, not the transfers used from the HDTV airing.

June for the re-release of the 2009-2010 editions.
July for the rest of the series!

1300 yen cheaper than their original 5900 price! (Priced at 4700 yen)

http://www.toho-a-park.com/godzilla-60th/

[Erasmus Craven]

Amazing! Let's hope Toho have learned from past mistakes and will give us proper masters this time around. And affordable licences as I doubt the japanese releases will be english-friendly...

[Infernal King]

I've never bought a non-US Blu-ray before. Can anyone give me pointers as to how to go about ordering these? Do they have English subtitles? Will I need a region-free player?

[Erasmus Craven]

They're not up for pre-order yet it seems. Once that happens, you should be able to get them from amazon.jp or yesasia.com. Japan is region A, so you wouldn't need a codefree player - but I would not expect english subs. Hence my hope Toho will licence these to other countries/territories.

[Mikallica]

Yeah, the site says brand new transfers specially made for blu-ray. So it looks like they dumped the HDTV masters in favor of these.

No English subtitles on these discs, but loads of special features.

In truth, most of us that will get these have seen these movies so many times that we know what's happening. Additionally, you can get Greenfish Subtitle Player or DVD Subtitle player to play .SRT files over the bluray on a transparent background.

[Infernal King]

Thanks for the info. Sucks that there won't be any English subtitles. I don't have a Blu-ray drive for my computer so I guess that option's out. Oh, well.

I've subscribed to this thread and will keep checking back to see if there are any updates, especially if they're licensing related!

[Spooked]

Oh man, I'm gonna hold out hope for English Subs! Oh, man!

[Mikallica]

No English subs.

To pre-order all them from Amazon.com costs: $1,406.20 shipped!

Pre-ordered. :-)

[LatemDeeps]

Originally Posted by Mikallica

Yeah, the site says brand new transfers specially made for blu-ray. So it looks like they dumped the HDTV masters in favor of these.

Out of curiosity, WHERE on the site does it say this? The re-releases look like they will be just that -- RE-releases; no signof remastering or new transfers for blu-ray. There's no indication of this on the 60th anniversary page, and if you're going by the information on the product pages themselves, all they've done is changed the release date(s) and product code(s) on the re-releases; the mention of new HD transfers for blu-ray was what they said when they originally came out as part of the Toho special effects series, and nothing mentioned at all on the newly released ones.

If you don't believe me, check ALL of the re-release product pages and compare to one of the Toho special effects series that's NOT being re-released and it's got the SAME information/blurb about HD remastering:

http://www.toho-a-park.com/dvd/item/...TBR19209D.html

So if I'm missing something obvious, PLEASE point it out -- I want to get the Megaguirus one, but I'll wait if it actually IS being remastered.

It doesn't look like there are any additional features being added that weren't on the original releases, either; the original information can still be found here:

http://www.toho-a-park.com/tokusatsu-bd/index.html

[reason108]

It seems like Toho must have been really impressed with the new Godzilla movie to push everything out like this.

[McCrutchy]

Originally Posted by Mikallica

Yeah, the site says brand new transfers specially made for blu-ray. So it looks like they dumped the HDTV masters in favor of these.

Originally Posted by LatemDeeps

Out of curiosity, WHERE on the site does it say this? The re-releases look like they will be just that -- RE-releases; no signof remastering or new transfers for blu-ray. There's no indication of this on the 60th anniversary page, and if you're going by the information on the product pages themselves, all they've done is changed the release date(s) and product code(s) on the re-releases; the mention of new HD transfers for blu-ray was what they said when they originally came out as part of the Toho special effects series, and nothing mentioned at all on the newly released ones.

I agree with LatemDeeps, I don't see any indication of the previous Blu-rays being re-mastered. Tthe exact same information is listed in, for example, both the 2009 and 2014 Blu-rays of Godzilla 1985:

Originally Posted by Godzilla 1985 (2009 Blu-ray)

東宝特撮作品が、待望のBlu-ray ハイクオリティ映像でリリース！！

Blu-rayでよみがえる珠玉の名作を目撃せよ！
Blu-rayのために制作されたHDマスターを使用することにより、高精密・高画質でよみがえる！音声は、 Blu-rayならではの高音質での収録！

Originally Posted by Godzilla 1985 (2009 Blu-ray)

Toho special effects works, released in Blu-ray high-quality video of the expectation! ! Regardless witnessed the masterpiece of the gem that revives in the Blu-ray! By using the HD master was produced for Blu-ray, and revived with a high precision and high image quality! Voice, recording of high-quality sound of Blu-ray only!

The link is only accessible now through Google's cache of the page, here.

Originally Posted by Godzilla 1985 (2014 Blu-ray)

東宝特撮作品が、待望のBlu-ray ハイクオリティ映像でリリース！！

Blu-rayでよみがえる珠玉の名作を目撃せよ！
Blu-rayのために制作されたHDマスターを使用することにより、高精密・高画質でよみがえる！音声は、 Blu-rayならではの高音質での収録！

Originally Posted by Godzilla 1985 (2014 Blu-ray)

Toho special effects works, released in Blu-ray high-quality video of the expectation! ! Regardless witnessed the masterpiece of the gem that revives in the Blu-ray! By using the HD master was produced for Blu-ray, and revived with a high precision and high image quality! Voice, recording of high-quality sound of Blu-ray only!

The listing for the 2014 edition can be viewed here.

[monkeyjb1988]

http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2014/03/...n-this-summer/

Granted, they won't be dubbed and the DVDs get one big release while the Blu-rays get split up. However, they'll have subs and basically EVERY film will be in hi-def. I'm so in, at least for Godzilla 1984. Heck, Toho's even throwing the 1998 version, although I know few people cared when it came on US blu; I just applaud their quest to completely release the series.

Happy news for giant monster fans.

[Erasmus Craven]

Originally Posted by monkeyjb1988

http://tokusatsunetwork.com/2014/03/...n-this-summer/

Granted, they won't be dubbed and the DVDs get one big release while the Blu-rays get split up. However, they'll have subs .

Japanese subs, that is. By the way, there's already a thread for this:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=237992

[monkeyjb1988]

Originally Posted by Erasmus Craven

Japanese subs, that is. By the way, there's already a thread for this:



https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=237992

Thank you

[monkeyjb1988]

Originally Posted by McCrutchy

I agree with LatemDeeps, I don't see any indication of the previous Blu-rays being re-mastered. Tthe exact same information is listed in, for example, both the 2009 and 2014 Blu-rays of Godzilla 1985:





The link is only accessible now through Google's cache of the page, here.





The listing for the 2014 edition can be viewed here.

To expand on that, the films that had blu-ray releases in 2009 are the only ones with details about what the discs include (audio options, special features, etc). The films getting their first blu releases have blank spaces for those things (although I'll hazard a guess that anything on the DVDs will go Blu, albeit the bonus stuff being SD.)

In either case, from what I heard about the 2009 releases, the Blus will be nice looking. Not reference, probably could be improved but they should still be nice. To be fair, Toho had to pay to restore all 28 films; Criterion only did 2 (not that the later films fit with Criterion's choice of films).

Just my thoughts and ideas. I'll probably buy a few, at least.

[Partyslammer]

One other thing worth mention which may be an issue for a few collectors.....

This new wave of releases including the 13 Godzilla Blu-rays which came out in 2009 which will be re-released in June will *not* have those glittery color sleeves this time around.

[Mayormccheese85]

Damn! That sucks! No US release and no subs or dubs. That's what make it fun. Anyone know if theyay release them in the US? I know they have the three releases soon and the sony ones, but what about the others?

[Partyslammer]

Originally Posted by Mayormccheese85

Damn! That sucks! No US release and no subs or dubs. That's what make it fun. Anyone know if theyay release them in the US? I know they have the three releases soon and the sony ones, but what about the others?

The Toho releases are for Japan only. The various movies coming out in the next couple months in the US are all English language dubs/variations licensed to various US studios/distributors. For the casual fan, these are enough, especially considering the number of movies about to come out at very low prices.


Obviously, there's pros and cons to the Japanese Toho releases - the Toho dvd/Blu-rays are all the original cuts of the films in their original aspect ratios, contain a lot of extras (which vary widely depending on the film) and mostly feature the best looking transfers (although many transfers for the BRs are still less than perfect). The Blu-rays can be played in North American BR players.

The downside is no English language dubs or even English subtitles, they are quite expensive per movie (about $50 - $65 not including shipping) and if you went to the trouble and cost of collecting all the Japanese dvd releases from the past decade, the upgrade to Blu-ray is hard to justify as in my experience, a good upscaling dvd player gives very close results to most of the (so far) released Blu-rays and most of the dvd extras are the same on the blu-ray releases and in standard def as well.