Parasite (기생충) [Injoingan]

[IXOYE1989]

Steelbook inside artwork:

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by Nage

Basically no English friendly extras and no black and white version. Can't justify the money even though its a beautiful release

Problem solved: Simply buy the Australian release from JB Hifi, contains all that you need.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

All gone now, even Plain Archive. I must have bought one of the very last yesterday. I would have killed myself for missing out.

[Hedrox]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

Problem solved: Simply buy the Australian release from JB Hifi, contains all that you need.

The Australian set is quite expensive and only comes with 5.1 audio. Right now it's looking like the UK 4K release is the best english-friendly version to get, both in terms of price and on-disc content.

[ashik786]

Originally Posted by thisgenius

Parasite is finally getting a 4K + bluray release in South Korea! The editions included are two Fullslips and a Quarter-slip. The 3rd disc could be special features or B&W version, I’m not so sure yet. Fullslip A comes with a 60-pages essay book while Fullslip B comes with a 120-pages photobook. There is also the CJ Digipak version, which can be seen in the CJ dedicated sticky thread here.

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PREORDER DATE: December 10th, 2020.

RELEASE DATE: January, 2021. Exact date unknown yet.

PURCHASE LINKS: TBA

ARTWORKS:

Fullslip A:



Fullslip B:



Quarter-slip:

Wow, this looks so tempting.

[ashik786]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

All gone now, even Plain Archive. I must have bought one of the very last yesterday. I would have killed myself for missing out.

Available for pre-booking in yesaia (Costlier than other sites)
https://www.yesasia.com/global/paras...0-en/info.html

[Grethiwha]

Originally Posted by ashik786

Available for pre-booking in yesaia (Costlier than other sites)
https://www.yesasia.com/global/paras...0-en/info.html

Nice. All four editions are available for pre-order on Yesasia.

With free shipping it works out to be about the same cost, mind you the minimum threshold for free shipping seems to have increased since pre-pandemic to $89, so you have to order something else with it. That's what I was planning to do on Thursday, but there was no sign of them at Yesasia so I ordered from Plain instead. Anyways, at least people have another chance at these.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by ashik786

Available for pre-booking in yesaia (Costlier than other sites)
https://www.yesasia.com/global/paras...0-en/info.html

Good news for people who missed out.

[IXOYE1989]

For those who pre-ordered from Plain Archives, did you end up getting charged for a "foreign transaction fee?" PayPal was the only option to process checkout, and I used my credit card on file via PayPal, but noticed that I got charged a foreign transaction fee few days after the payment was finally processed. Thought it would all be covered through PayPal, so this was unexpected.

[EinCB128]

I have the regular US UHD version. Is the encoding expected to better on this release? Or is it too early to say?

Thank you.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by EinCB128

I have the regular US UHD version. Is the encoding expected to better on this release? Or is it too early to say?

Thank you.

Far too early since the Korean version is out in February.

[IXOYE1989]

From Plain Archive's instagram page:



Hopefully should be shipping out soon!

[thisgenius]

Originally Posted by IXOYE1989

Hopefully should be shipping out soon!

My order was shipped by Nova Media earlier today.

[IXOYE1989]

Originally Posted by thisgenius

My order was shipped by Nova Media earlier today.

I pre-ordered from Plain Archive, but found a tracking number show up on my USPS Informed Delivery account. Did some searching around to track Korea Post tracking, and it shows that my package was picked up today. Strange that Plain Archive still hasn't sent an email regarding order update, unless they typically wait a few days after packages have been shipped for email updates to go out.

[thisgenius]

Oh dear, it seems that people in Korea, who have received these editions, are reporting scratches on the 4K discs in Fullslips A and B. If you are due to receive them, I would recommend checking them out as soon as you receive them. We might be hearing from Injoingan soon....

[IXOYE1989]

Originally Posted by thisgenius

Oh dear, it seems that people in Korea, who have received these editions, are reporting scratches on the 4K discs in Fullslips A and B. If you are due to receive them, I would recommend checking them out as soon as you receive them. We might be hearing from Injoingan soon....

Where have you seen these reports? Any links or photos you can share? Saw that these discs were made in Germany, so I'd thought that quality control would be better than the ones coming out of Mexico since I always get a handful of scratched discs from the latter.

[thisgenius]

Originally Posted by IXOYE1989

Where have you seen these reports? Any links or photos you can share? Saw that these discs were made in Germany, so I'd thought that quality control would be better than the ones coming out of Mexico since I always get a handful of scratched discs from the latter.

A Korean friend shared the news with me yesterday, which is apparently all over Korean forums and social networking sites. Here are the pictures from various people:

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[IXOYE1989]

Originally Posted by thisgenius

A Korean friend shared the news with me yesterday, which is apparently all over Korean forums and social networking sites. Here are the pictures from various people:

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Yikes...that's really bad quality control. Thank you very much for the heads up! Hope they'll start preparing for massive replacement.

[Yasujiro Ozu]

Originally Posted by thisgenius

A Korean friend shared the news with me yesterday, which is apparently all over Korean forums and social networking sites. Here are the pictures from various people:

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No, this is not good news. Lets hope these are isolated examples.

[IXOYE1989]

Originally Posted by Yasujiro Ozu

No, this is not good news. Lets hope these are isolated examples.

As thisgenius mentioned before about the possibility of hearing from Injoingan regarding this issue, a recall for exchange seems necessary at this point. The amount of people receiving scratched 4K disc or the standard blu-ray discs are staggering! It seems as if every other person has a scratched disc, which is really bad. Not looking forward to opening this set knowing how bad this has gotten. Based on the amount of people in Korea reporting to have received with scratched discs, makes me wonder if someone who was packaging these discs scratched them on purpose by forcefully sliding each discs with one another, whether it be out of pure hatred for this film and the recognition it got, or just having a bad day.