Asian Cinema

[DrSyn]

I would love to see Battle Royal and all of the Kurosawa movies released. Also the Ring trilogy and Wild Zero , along with a ton of other asian flicks.

[Chad Varnadore]

Originally Posted by DrSyn

I would love to see Battle Royal and all of the Kurosawa movies released. Also the Ring trilogy and Wild Zero , along with a ton of other asian flicks.

Write Criterion and request that they start releasing in BD. I don't know how they'll hold up or how much work they might need for HD, but I'd love to see some Kurosawa too - Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Hidden Fortress, Samurai Trilogy, and many others that aren't from Kurosawa. Maybe they'll do something in Japan sooner.

[FF750]

Originally Posted by Chad Varnadore

Write Criterion and request that they start releasing in BD. I don't know how they'll hold up or how much work they might need for HD, but I'd love to see some Kurosawa too - Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Hidden Fortress, Samurai Trilogy, and many others that aren't from Kurosawa. Maybe they'll do something in Japan sooner.

I just got the gorgeous remastered edition of Seven Samurai from Criterion (the one that came out late last year) and judging from that I'd say it'd look great on a proper BD50 release. I'm still thinking about getting the Yojimbo/Sanjuro set as well - I'm thinking it'll be some time before Criterion hops onto the Blu-ray bandwagon.

[DrSyn]

Yeah, but it'll be great if they did. Deep Discount was, or is, having a 40% off sale on Criterion movies. I would normally go crazy on that but due to Blu-Ray, I really don't feel like buying anymore "regular" DVD's.