Suzhou River (2K Restored)

[ShellBeacher]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

This is one film I have been waiting for years to arrive on Blu and now it has without English subs..........damn.

This issue has appeared with the recent Zhang Yimou box set release, as well. On one hand, the distributors owe us nothing, I get that.

There are two other possibilities...

-- They are cutting down on shipping/export/import costs/stresses for distributors and/or rights holders

-- An American or British label bought rights to the title and has asked to restrict the Chinese region's release so that fans won't import this one first


Otherwise...I suppose we should really just bone up on some Mandarin...

[qw0aszx]

Originally Posted by ShellBeacher

This issue has appeared with the recent Zhang Yimou box set release, as well. On one hand, the distributors owe us nothing, I get that.

The subtitles in that Korean Zhang Yimou set is because they just illegal copied the materials from other releases and then add Korean subtitles, that's why only Red Sorghum has English subs, because the original Disk Kino release have them.

As for Suzhou River, Welcome Music seems a quite little company with very limited blu-ray release history, I assume they just didn't care to include one more language on subtitles.