Asian 3D Blu-ray Imports - Hong Kong Japan China Taiwan Thailand Korea etc

[xenago]

Originally Posted by BleedOrange11

Wow, excellent! Thanks for sharing the subtitles.

No problem. It has been a real pain acquiring subtitles for some of these shorts so I hope at least a few other 3D enthusiasts will be able to benefit

Originally Posted by osmos512

Kamen Rider: Run All Over the World (1989)
This is the longest of the bunch around 15 minutes. There's a handful of flat and/or misaligned shots, but the rest of it is gold. Lots of fun tokusatsu effects and sharp popouts.

Using a similar process as I applied to extract hardsubs from a low quality copy of Digimon Savers 3D, I also produced plaintext subtitles synced up to the 3D Blu-ray version of Kamen Rider Run All Over the World:

https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/sub...r-the-world-en

[xenago]

Originally Posted by Box for Pee-wee

Just finished watching Little Ghostly Adventures of Tofu Boy. The disc is not English friendly though I could follow along for most of it.

I finally managed to produce subtitles for the Japanese 3D Blu-ray of Tofu Boy (AKA 豆富小僧, Tôfu kozô, Toufu Kozou)! Here they are:

https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/sub...of-tofu-boy-en

Originally Posted by helpcentermc

Is this movie converted 3D, or is it native digital 3D?

The movie is at least partially in native 3D, though it takes a fairly subtle approach for the most part and incorporates converted elements throughout. Even the Hollywood press wanted more oomph from the stereo. Regardless, many shots have obvious standout 3D elements (including complex particles), and some also incorporate flatter layers composited in at specific depths:







I also spotted a minor stereo rendering error with character outlines in one shot; as an example, this is frame 55902:



And for flavor, some backstory on the English subtitles...

Although a low quality cropped DVD with english hardsubs was uploaded to the Internet Archive, extracting thousands of lines of burned-in text for an entire film would be a massive pain so I didn't bother going down that road immediately. Instead, last year I found an eBay lsiting for a Malaysian DVD release of the film, purportedly in proper uncropped aspect ratio with English subs. I bit the bullet, and waited a month for it to ship. When it did, I was bemused by the awful state in which it arrived; the package was disgusting with nearly destroyed shrink wrap, and disc was the most obviously rotted/degraded I'd ever seen right out of the box. It didn't read properly in my drives or players. Ok, fine - got a refund, and I ordered another. Two months later, the replacement arrived... in an equally awful state. At this point, I realized that the seller must have a whole bunch of these probably-bad discs and figured it was a lost cause since no one else seemed to be selling copies with English subtitles. The DVDs sat on my shelf until yesterday, when I realized that I had a PC DVD reader without BD capability hiding in a box with my PS2. I figured as a hail-mary I would try it; after a few attempts, I managed to get one of the DVDs to work well enough to pull out a full rip of the VobSub tracks! I OCR'd the subs, then went through to fix all the obvious errors and adjust the timing.

Another obscure 3D title down, many more to go!

[jchung30]

Originally Posted by xenago

I finally managed to produce subtitles for the Japanese 3D Blu-ray of Tofu Boy (AKA 豆富小僧, Tôfu kozô, Toufu Kozou)! Here they are:

https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/sub...of-tofu-boy-en





The movie is in native 3D, though it takes a fairly subtle approach for the most part. Even the Hollywood press wanted more oomph from the stereo. Regardless, many shots have obvious standout 3D elements (including complex particles), and some seem to also incorporate flatter layers composited in at specific depths:

I also spotted a minor stereo rendering error with character outlines in one shot; as an example, this is frame 55902:

And for flavor, some backstory on the English subtitles...

Although a low quality cropped DVD with english hardsubs was uploaded to the Internet Archive, extracting thousands of lines of burned-in text for an entire film would be a massive pain so I didn't bother going down that road immediately. Instead, last year I found an eBay lsiting for a Malaysian DVD release of the film, purportedly in proper uncropped aspect ratio with English subs. I bit the bullet, and waited a month for it to ship. When it did, I was bemused by the awful state in which it arrived; the package was disgusting with nearly destroyed shrink wrap, and disc was the most obviously rotted/degraded I'd ever seen right out of the box. It didn't read properly in my drives or players. Ok, fine - got a refund, and I ordered another. Two months later, the replacement arrived... in an equally awful state. At this point, I realized that the seller must have a whole bunch of these probably-bad discs and figured it was a lost cause since no one else seemed to be selling copies with English subtitles. The DVDs sat on my shelf until yesterday, when I realized that I had a PC DVD reader without BD capability hiding in a box with my PS2. I figured as a hail-mary I would try it; after a few attempts, I managed to get one of the DVDs to work well enough to pull out a full rip of the VobSub tracks! I OCR'd the subs, then went through to fix all the obvious errors and adjust the timing.

Another obscure 3D title down, many more to go!

[BleedOrange11]

I don't own this to review or confirm, but for anyone interested, there are supposed to be three Tachikomatic Days 3D short films included on the bonus disc with the Japanese Limited Edition Ghost in the Shell: S.A.C. - Solid State Society Blu-ray 3D. Note that the Japanese Blu-ray 3D does not include English subtitles, whilst the Hong Kong version (which I do own) does but without the bonus features. The standard edition of the Japanese Blu-ray 3D does not include the bonus disc.



https://myanimelist.net/anime/10950/...hikoma_na_Hibi

EDIT - The Hong Kong Blu-ray 3D does include these short films with English subtitles!