The Official Radiance Films Thread

[ZeTi]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

I don't understand mostly who is who and what their goal is, besides shooting the other one that looks exactly like him.

[RossyG]

Yeah, let's not go there.

[dallywhitty]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

Constructive as always. The clown of Blu-Ray.com Ladies and Gentlemen...

Thank you.

[MovieBuff647]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

Radiance just confirmed on Twitter In My Skin will have Dolby Vision / HDR

They've also updated their page to indicate it now too:

They also confirmed on the site now that the UHD disc is Region Free. It was a safe assumption, but just putting a B (even when referring to the Blu-Ray) can be misleading.

What 88 Films does in these scenarios, for example, is ABC/B.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

Thank you.

You’ll always be the queen of Blu-ray.com for me.

[logboy]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

Battles without Honour or Humanity was a real chore to get through and I wasn't wiser in the end, as I really didn't understand anything. That's supposed to be the magnum opus in that subgenre, right?

that's a can of worms. the reputation of the series is initially with the japanese audience, and is a red herring when it comes to westerners being interested in it. i couldn't follow it twenty years ago, and i think it's mostly down to a complexity that we'll not get past. never going to get used to recognising faces and names.

some will love it, sure many do, but i'd be willing to bet vast majority of those can't recount the story, and anyone listening would regret asking them to do so. i still like fukasaku, but some i've seen are dull and others fall apart if you rewatch them. still feel tricked by the kinetic photography, but always wanted to see how much more effective it is on the big screen. still want 'under the flag of the rising sun' to reappear, and the more obscure, preferably early films too.

i'm happy for labels to keep going for samurai and yakuza films, but i don't find the restricted size of the audience for physical releases as a healthy basis for supporting obscurities as the larger market that can take more risks gets to the weirder stuff without finding an audience that overstates their understanding and appreciation for it as though they're inherently getting the stuff more than those that have long tired of the trials and tribulation of the market today, and have gone elsewhere for an easier time of it all.

[ZombAid]

Originally Posted by ZeTi

Short Black Hair, Sunglasses and a Leather Jacket. Hard for me to tell the difference.
I have problems with German people (I'm german myself fyi) that choose to have the same look.
It's not a racism thing!

[Yami]

We all like what we like, I suppose. I personally find the yakuza films a bit of a chore at this point and roll my eyes when another is announced but there are plenty in the genre that I like. Love the Battles Without Honor and Humanity series, loved Big Time Gambling Boss, I'm just at the point where any new one that comes in the subscription will be the last left on the to watch pile. I'm much more appreciative when they release something like Oguri's The Sting of Death (even if it's probably my least favourite Oguri film!) or Yoshida's A Story Written with Water but I've resigned myself to being in a minority.

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That was an interesting set of announcements today. The Saura was particularly welcome and, as Aunt Peg said above, it would be great if Radiance did release more Saura as the likes of La caza, Honeycomb, and Anna and the Wolves would sit very nice in the catalogue.

The selections for this World Noir volume don't excite me as much as the previous volume, but I have heard good things about Paris Pick-Up.

FWIW, Fran said today that HIS is definitely delayed until 2026 and WN4 swapped places with WNN on the schedule as one of the titles in the latter is still undergoing restoration (so i'm guessing 2026 for that one too)

[Persona]

Originally Posted by ZombAid

Short Black Hair, Sunglasses and a Leather Jacket. Hard for me to tell the difference.
I have problems with German people (I'm german myself fyi) that choose to have the same look.
It's not a racism thing!

[Ben_C]

People talking about Yakuza film fatigue, Hokuriku Proxy War, one of the most recent Radiance ones, is definitely one of the best they’ve released so far. Really good stuff, and certainly shows that quality examples from the genre are still coming.

[grahams76]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

My guesses are:

Ogro (aka Operación Ogro) (1979)

I really want this film to receive the red carpet treatment too.

[vieyra]

Quite interesting that they found LE of WttDH more or less at the same time Palindromes will arrive, he. I would do the same if it was my company in case some extra LE appears and it was planned to release another title of the director, just save them for the same time. Nothing wrong with that, it seems a great play for me...

But what's a bit weird is that they are not limiting the purchase to 1, even myself was very very very tempted to buy 3-4 for reselling, but I foolish resisted... and in the end just ordered directly one for £21.84 GBP (4 pounds for delivery to Spain), great deal in my opinion.

New titles are great ones, specially Saura's and the samurai flick. But I did not pre-order nothing, Radiance is by far my favorite label at the moment, but with the "excesive" amount of interesting releases from all labels I follow (Radiance, Eureka, Arrow, 88Films, Indicator, BFI, TWF, SS, Criterion), it's imposible for my wallet and space to be up to date, I think to buy most of them in sales with Rarewaves/Amazon and each end of month prioritizing the most beloved/soon OOP, hehehe.

Great time to be a new BD collector, but if you have years and years doing so, the upgrades and re-releases could be a nigthmare I guess...
Cheers,

[DukeTogo84]

The Yakuza films I would like to see get a release are the Nihon No Don films from 1977-1978. Much different compared to most yakuza films as they are a bit more methodical in their pace and building up to a pretty epic conclusion after three films. They star pretty much everyone in the crime genre at that point, from Sonny Chiba to Toshiro Mifune. Never had a proper release outside of Japan. Hopefully one day!

[tomblu]

Originally Posted by vieyra

Quite interesting that they found LE of WttDH more or less at the same time Palindromes will arrive, he. I would do the same if it was my company in case some extra LE appears and it was planned to release another title of the director, just save them for the same time. Nothing wrong with that, it seems a great play for me...

But what's a bit weird is that they are not limiting the purchase to 1, even myself was very vdery veyr tempted to buy 3-4 for reselling, but I foolish resisted... and in the end just ordered directly one for £21.84 GBP (4 pounds for delivery to Spain), great deal in my opinion.

And more curiously perhaps is that it is a preorder for release in over a month. If they found extra LE in the warehouse why can't they be shipped immediately? I wonder what the deal with that is.

[vieyra]

Originally Posted by DukeTogo84

The Yakuza films I would like to see get a release are the Nihon No Don films from 1977-1978. Much different compared to most yakuza films as they are a bit more methodical in their pace and building up to a pretty epic conclusion after three films. They star pretty much everyone in the crime genre at that point, from Sonny Chiba to Toshiro Mifune. Never had a proper release outside of Japan. Hopefully one day!

I totally agreed that Japanese Godfather are great films, from the best of its kind imho, but as you said, very different feeling from most of other regular yakuza movies.

However, I also agreed with ZombAid that sometimes yakuza movies could be a too steep a slope depending of the day or the specific flick, and even if there are tons not released in the west, last years we've getting a lot of them, maybe nothing new for the super fans, for most of people could be too much.

But well, I think it's something normal with most of genres, even if you're a fanatic, seeing 20-25 in a row and you can be saturated. Imagine if the genre is not precisily your cup of tea, you're having a bad day and the movie is not very good.

I really like Fukasaku, but I remember that a few years ago I saw one of their yakuza films, not remember which one exactly, but I think it was one from Battles... and just ended with the same feeling as ZombAid, who were who and why they did shoot each other all along.. the subtitles did not help at all either, hehehe. But specially the camera movement and fast pace editing was a nightmare for me in that ocassion, he.

Cheers,

[gekats]

Disappointed to see Koundouros' Ogre.pushed back as I was anticipating its announcement today, but relieved to see no other ogre took its place in today's slate (phew!) and the Saura almost makes up for it!

Too bad about the Kino duplications in the noir set.

[vieyra]

Originally Posted by tomblu

And more curiously perhaps is that it is a preorder for release in over a month. If they found extra LE in the warehouse why can't they be shipped immediately? I wonder what the deal with that is.

Yep, that's something even weirder, I realized that WttDH was a "pre-order" after paying, I just bought immediately to not lose it. But if they found units, it doesn't have too much sense to me that cannot be sell/send right away. Very strange move, but who knows...

Cheers,

[in1980abluesky]

Originally Posted by GG88

The difference is the earlier powerhouse Noir boxes didn’t contain any Bogart films. The earlier World Noir boxes had French films in. The Borgat noirs are generally more popular than the ones in earlier volumes so it made sense to have a separate set for them as many people would only be interested for Boggie.

The box is called World Noir not French Noir so can see why some people would be disappointed that it doesn’t follow the preceding set’s pattern. However now the pattern is broken I agree we need an all Japanese set

It qualifies, World Noir is generally accepted as World Cinema Noir, yes? I think most people are aware that this generally means excluding US & UK. France is probably, along with Italy, Germany & Japan, the biggest contributors to the genre outside of the US. I really don’t see the problem, what’s more, as far as I can see there’s no overlap with previous Kino / Cohen Media releases which precluded myself investing in the first two.


I think the sets are becoming increasingly more interesting, personally.

[gekats]

Originally Posted by in1980abluesky

I really don’t see the problem, what’s more, as far as I can see there’s no overlap with previous Kino / Cohen Media releases which precluded myself investing in the first two.

Paris pick-up is the only one not to have been previously released by Kino.

[in1980abluesky]

Originally Posted by gekats

Paris pick-up is the only one not to have been previously released by Kino.

Well I’ve never heard of them much less own them so I’m happy at least.