Recommended vendors

[iceman]

When ordering Blu-ray movies for US and Europe we recommend using Amazon. When ordering Asian titles we recommend YesAsia.com, they sell all Hong Kong-, Japan- and Korean titles and they ship worldwide.

YesAsia.com

We have recently started to review Asian- and import titles and we plan to do so more regularly. Here's a list of recent Asian reviews:

Behind the Yellow Line
CJ7
Protege
Infernal Affairs
Infernal Affairs II

[Mobe1969]

Thanks for the thread and info. Much appreciated.

[unjichan]

I also recommend www.Play-Asia.com

[Hayabusa85]

I always use http://www.dddhouse.com/v3/index.php for my Asian movies. Never had a problem with them, they are pretty much always cheaper than YesAsia and shipping to Canada usually only takes about a week. I have even got stuff from them faster than stuff I have ordered from Canada which is great and sad at the same time.

[Cookson]

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp is also very reliable. Every purchase you make you get "points" and they can be added to future orders.

[Kyo28]

I would also recommend Amazon JP. Their prices are generally under the normal retail price and I've never had difficulties ordering from them in the past.

[mimurph1]

Originally Posted by Cookson

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp is also very reliable. Every purchase you make you get "points" and they can be added to future orders.

Just placed my first order with this site, some of the prices actually seemed quite reasonable for what I was expecting from a Japanese blu-ray. Hope all goes well, I chose regular air mail shipping.

[nyghtphix]

Originally Posted by Mobe1969

Thanks for the thread and info. Much appreciated.

same here
follow xxx

[Naiera]

Yeah, they're still good. Might be a little slow shipping things out, but you'll get your movies soon enough.

[Cortese]

Originally Posted by Naiera

Yeah, they're still good. Might be a little slow shipping things out, but you'll get your movies soon enough.

Cool, thanks

[Nuck Horris]

Do I have to create a new account to log onto Amazon Japan? My password doesn't seem to carry over from Amazon US...

[Naiera]

Yes, Amazon Japan is the one Amazon that requires a new account.

[PGW]

Not my experience. My U.S. login/password works fine at Amazon.jp.

[Nuck Horris]

[Ray O. Blu]

Originally Posted by Nuck Horris

[Show spoiler]Sorry Nuck. I'd like to help, but I've been using Amazon.jp for years and I can't recall which way was correct.

[Nuck Horris]

Originally Posted by Ray O. Blu

[Show spoiler]Sorry Nuck. I'd like to help, but I've been using Amazon.jp for years and I can't recall which way was correct.

I created a new account... I placed my order and the package arrived relatively fast compared to the other foreign Amazon sites. Only problem is that for some reason they had some random city in my state written in all caps twice within my mailing address. I fixed it through the DHL site and it took four extra days to get it after that.

[Partyslammer]

Speaking of Amazon Japan, has anyone recently had issues with Credit Cards being rejected due to the CC company seeing the transaction as "suspicious?" I have never had such a problem in the 8+ years I've been using Amazon overseas and this week, I got an email that an order couldn't be processed due to my CC being rejected. Called the bank which had flagged the transaction and got them to ok it, but it still wouldn't go through. Tried another CC, same thing. Tried my Paypal CC, same thing.

Is there a way to pay directly via Paypal or better yet, use my (US) Amazon Prime Store Card for Amazon.jp?

[jaydot]

If I order pre-order and in-stock items in the same Amazon JP order (and choose "Group my items into as few shipments as possible"), will it ship together or separately? (Only reason I ask is because amazon.ca usually ships items separately regardless, but from the JP site I’d rather everything ship together so it’s packaged in a box instead of separate bubble mailers.)

[Ianzombie]

I have ordered a few movies in the past and only once did they send one of the movies separately, every other time they sent them together when the last one was released. Maybe they do it more often now but it might be safer to presume that they will hold onto them all until the last one is ready to be shipped to avoid being disappointed.
You could always stipulate that they are sent together, isnt there a comments section when ordering, i can't remember off hand?

[svenge]

Same thing happened to me, it's annoying as hell as I got a lot of good deals from Amazon JP marketplace sellers in the past.

Having to use a proxy like Tenso ruins the entire concept for me as paying for shipping twice (once from AMZ to Tenso, then Tenso to me) plus the additional fees kills any semblance of a reasonable final price.