The Official Radiance Films Thread

[Yami]

Originally Posted by Guernica78

Do we think Radiance would e er do some animation releases ?

There's an animation coming this year

[T4ffer]

Almost decided to go for all of the last two months announcements despite saying I would for the first time make my own selection, but with all last years IOSS confusion with various companies... I'm now not sure if going over 135£ means I will pay double taxes... because the shopify cart is showing me taxes in there but I'm almost sure that would also result in my customs asking for VAT as well...
So I decided to leave out the Raros and the golf movie after all, will probably get them from a sale later.

DAMN; well with shipping and currency conversion it went exactly over 150€ anyway so I now lost the -10% due to making a smaller order but will probably still pay double VAT?

[Yurakucho]

I'm sure they're just making up these yakuza films at this point... They are just blank discs, right?

[ste71]

https://x.com/FilmsRadiance/status/1887097471924334776

[ZombAid]

Hmm, now I'm getting worried bout the promised 4K.
Shouldn't there have been two 4k in the first half of 2025?
What was the price difference between 4k and standard for the first half of the year?

[xxnomad]

The three Radiance titles look great.

But with the price increase for 2025 subs, I’m expecting more than 3 titles a month…

[Forestt]

Originally Posted by T4ffer

Almost decided to go for all of the last two months announcements despite saying I would for the first time make my own selection, but with all last years IOSS confusion with various companies... I'm now not sure if going over 135£ means I will pay double taxes... because the shopify cart is showing me taxes in there but I'm almost sure that would also result in my customs asking for VAT as well...
So I decided to leave out the Raros and the golf movie after all, will probably get them from a sale later.

DAMN; well with shipping and currency conversion it went exactly over 150€ anyway so I now lost the -10% due to making a smaller order but will probably still pay double VAT?

It's 150 euro without shipping, so you're probably good if you're 10 euro's above 150 (not sure how much your shipping is exactly).

[OnlyJapantown]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

Hmm, now I'm getting worried bout the promised 4K.
Shouldn't there have been two 4k in the first half of 2025?
What was the price difference between 4k and standard for the first half of the year?

I'm wondering if they will hit us with 2 UHDs at once... surely next month?

[TheWickerMan]

If Nakajima is on the table now I hope Radiance pick up Jeans Blues. Also should be with Toei. I figured it was too obscure before, but going by Letterboxd & IMDb at least this one's even more obscure.

Need to finish off the handful of Meiko Kaji films Arrow didn't release.

[MifuneFan]

The Railroad Man (LE) (1956) (UK-only)

https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/prod...ailroad-man-le

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• New 4K restoration by Cineteca di Bologna in collaboration with Surf Film at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory
  
• Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
  
• New interview with Pietro Germi expert Mario Sesti (2025, 29 mins)
  
• Reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original posters
  
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by John Bleasdale and archival writing on Alfredo Giannetti by Simone Starace
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings
• more TBC!

The Railroad Man

Pietro Germi (The Facts of Murder) directs and stars in this deeply affecting drama about a train driver. Living modestly with his wife Sara (Luisa Della Noce), Andrea Marcocci’s life is thrown into turmoil when he witnesses a suicide on the tracks ahead of him. Tenderly narrated from the perspective of his young son Sandro (Edoardo Nevola), the incident has repercussions on Andrea and his extended family - including his unemployed son Marcello (Renato Speziali) and pregnant daughter Giulia (Sylva Koscina) - who he is expected to support. A huge success on release, with a tough, muscular performance by Germi at its centre, The Railroad Man should sit alongside the likes of Bicycle Thieves and La terra trema in the pantheon of great neorealistic classics.

[MifuneFan]

The Rapacious Jailbreaker (LE) (1974) (UK/US/CA)

https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/prod...jailbreaker-le

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• High-Definition digital transfer
  
• Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
  
• Audio commentary by yakuza film expert Nathan Stuart (2025)
  
• Visual essay on Sadao Nakajima by Tom Mes (2025)
  
• New English subtitle translation
  
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
  
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Earl Jackson and an archival review of the film
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

The Rapacious Jailbreaker

In the free-for-all chaos after World War II, black marketeer Ueda (Hiroki Matsukata, Cops vs Thugs) is robbed of a pound of morphine. He takes his brutal revenge, but is arrested for murder and sentenced to 20 years. He escapes and is caught, but no matter where they send him, Ueda won’t let prison walls stop him. Directed by a master of the genre and based on the real exploits of a seven-time prison escapee, this ranks as one of the rawest entries in the 1970s cycle of Japanese true-account crime films.

[MifuneFan]

Themroc (LE) (1973) (UK/US/CA)

https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/products/themroc-le

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• 4K Restoration from the original negative by StudioCanal
  
• Original uncompressed PCM mono audio
  
• Interview with critic David Thompson (2025)
  
• Interview with actor Michel Piccoli and director Claude Faraldo (1973)
  
• Interview with Manuela Lazic on Michel Piccoli (2025)
  
• Gallery
  
• Trailer
  
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Sam Smith
  
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Alison Smith, author of French Cinema in the 1970s The echoes of May
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings

Themroc

Living at home with his mother, bachelor house painter Themroc (Michel Piccoli, Belle de Jour) leads a dull life. One day, after an unearned run-in with his boss, the usually docile Themroc rebels and dismantles his myopic world. Made on a shoestring budget with no intelligible dialogue, Claude Faraldo’s cult taboo-busting satire about a French blue-collar worker-turned-urban caveman anarchically eviscerates mid-century labour and gender politics. Never released on home video in the UK, Themroc may be familiar to British audiences from Channel 4's infamous Red Triangle showings, intended for adults only; now this savage satire can be seen again, newly presented on Blu-ray from a 4K restoration.

[MifuneFan]

Shoot First, Die Later (LE) (1974) (Raro Video - Partner Label)

https://www.radiancefilms.co.uk/prod...t-die-later-le

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• High-Definition digital transfer from the original camera negative
  
• Optional Italian and English audio tracks, uncompressed mono PCM audio
  
• New audio commentary by film critic Travis Woods
  
• Archival interview with director Fernando Di Leo
  
• Archival interview with star Luc Merenda
  
• Italian and English trailers
  
• New and improved English subtitle translation for Italian audio and English SDH for English audio
  
• Limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Sam Moore
  
• Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging

Shoot First, Die Later

In Shoot First, Die Later, Luc Merenda (Torso) stars as Police Commissioner Domenico Malacarne, a young rising star in the force who is also taking bribes from the mob. A routine complaint comes through to a local station in which a lowly officer, Malacarne's father, takes the statement. Unbeknownst to Malacarne, the complaint implicates someone who the mob wishes to remain hidden, putting Malacarne in a difficult position with his father, who begins to suspect his son isn’t the law-abiding official he was previously so proud of… Another impressively action-packed thriller from poliziotteschi master Fernando Die Leo, Shoot First, Die Later is presented on Blu-ray in the UK for the first time.

[Thebunk]

The Rapacious Jailbreaker is a blind buy for me from the description alone.

I was really let down by 18 Years in Prison but this sounds more up my alley.

[RossyG]

Themroc and Shoot First for me.

[MifuneFan]

Latest Availability watch. Better get that Daiei set ASAP if you're interested. List also added to the first post.

AVAILABILITY WATCH

UK

Daiei Gothic - 99% sold out
World Noir Vol 2 - 95% sold out
Fill 'Er Up with Super - 95% sold out
Goodbye & Amen - 95% sold out
The Agitator - 90% sold out
The Sting of Death - 90% sold out
A Story Written with Water - 90% sold out
O.C and Stiggs - 90% sold out
Commedia all'italiana - 85% sold out
The Dead Mother - 85% sold out
Planet of the Vampires SE - 85% sold out
Black God, White Devil - 80% sold out
Nothing is Sacred - 80% sold out

US

A Moment of Romance - 99% sold out
The Shape of Night - 90% sold out
Visible Secret - 85% sold out
Shinobi - 85% sold out
Daiei Gothic - 85% sold out
A Woman Kills - 85% sold out
Cosa Nostra - 80% sold out
Black Tight Killers - 80% sold out
Bandits of Orgosolo - 80% sold out
The Iron Prefect - 75% sold out
Dogra Magra - 65% sold out
Sympathy for the Underdog - 60% sold out
The Facts of Murder - 50% sold out

[drush9999]

In for another Raro upgrade

[ghostof82]

Thank goodness, a quiet month from Radiance for me. My wallet breathes a sigh of relief, probably just the lull before the storm when Radiance 4Ks finally drop....

[ZombAid]

Also, only three releases this month.
Promised was 4...
Buyers remorse is setting in...

[benricci]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

Also, only three releases this month.
Promised was 4...
Buyers remorse is setting in...

They announced 4 titles.