Japanese films (upcoming) on Blu-ray thread

[DukeTogo84]

So I figured I'd start a thread that lists all the upcoming Japanese films coming to the US on blu-ray. This is something I can always update, and will be looking for titles that I'm missing. Let me know if you think this is a good idea and until then I'll list a few titles that are coming out

August 19th


August 26th


September 9th


September 16th


September 23rd


September 30th


October 14th


October 21st


October 28th




NOW OUT










List of Japanese titles Criterion has streaming, but no physical discs in HD

[Show spoiler]The 47 Ronin Part 1 (1941)
The 47 Ronin Part 2 (1941)
The X From Outer Space (1967)
Ako (1964)
Apart From You (1933)
Aptostasy (1948)
Army (1944)
Assassin (1964)
Atragon (1963)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
Ballad of Orin (1977)
Ballad of a Workman (1962)
Bandits Vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)
Being Two Isn't Easy (1962)
Beautiful Days (1955)
Big Joys, Small Sorrows (1986)
Black Lizard (1962)
Black River (1956)
Black Sun (1964)
Boy (1969)
Boyhood (1951)
Broken Drum (1949)
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941)
Burden of Life (1935)
Carmen Comes Home (1951)
Carmen's Innocent Love (1952)
The Castle of Sand (1974)
The Ceremony (1971)
Children of Nagasaki (1983)
A Colt is My Passport (1967)
Conflagration (1958)
Crazed Fruit (1956)
Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
Danger Stalks Near (1957)
Death Shadows (1986)
The Demon (1978)
Dersu Uzala (1975)
Diary of a Shinjuku Thief (1969)
Dodes'ka-Den (1970)
Dogora (1964)
Double Suicide (1969)
Dragnet Girl (1933)
Drunken Angel (1948)
Early Spring (1956)
Early Summer (1951)
Eijanaika (1981)
Empire of Passion (1978)
The End of Summer (1949)
Endless Desire (1958)
Equinox Flower (1958)
The Eternal Rainbow (1958)
Every-Night Dreams (1933)
Everything Goes Wrong (1960)
The Face of Another (1966)
Fall Guy (1982)
Farewell to a Dream (1956)
Farewell to Spring (1959)
Father (1988)
Fighting Elegy (1966)
Fireworks over the Sea (1951)
A Flame at the Pier (1962)
Floating Clouds (1955)
Flowing (1956)
Flunky, Work Hard (1931)
Fountainhead (1956)
Frankenstein Vs Bargon (1965)
The Garden of Women (1954)
Gate of Flesh (1964)
The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Genocide (1968)
Ginza Cosmetics (1951)
The Girl I Loved (1946)
Goke, Body Snatcher from Hell (1968)
Golden Demon (1954)
Golden Eyes (1968)
The Good Fairy (1951)
Good Morning (1959)
Gonza: The Spearman (1986)
Hanzo The Razor: The Snare (1973)
Hanzo The Razor: Who's Got the Gold? (1974)
Hanzo The Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
Heat Wave (1991)
Her Brother (1960)
Here's to the Young Lady (1949)
A Hen in the Wind (1948)
Himiko (1974)
Hokusai (1953)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
Hunter in the Dark (1979)
The Idiot (1951)
I Am Waiting (1957)
I Flunked But (1930)
I Hate But Love (1962)
I Live In Fear (1955)
I Was Born But...(1932)
I Will Buy You (1956)
Ikebana (1957)
Immortal Love (1961)
The Inheritance (1962)
An Inn In Tokyo (1937)
An Innocent Witch (1965)
The Insect Woman (1963)
Intentions of Murder (1964)
Intimidation (1960)
Ironfinger (1965)
A Japanese Tragedy (1953)
Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Jigoku (1960)
Jubilation Street (1944)
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)
Kill! (1968)
Killers on Parade (1961)
The Lady and the Beard (1931)
Late Autumn (1960)
Late Chrysanthemums (1954)
The Last Dance (1993)
A Legend or Was It? (1963)
The Living Magoroku (1943)
The Living Skeleton (1968)
Love New and Old (1961)
The Lower Depths (1957)
Madadayo (1993)
The Man Who Left Hiss Will on Film (1970)
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
Matango (1963)
The Men Who Tread on a Tigers Tail (1945)
Moonlight Serenade (1997)
Morning for the Osone Family (1946)
Mother (1952)
A Mother Should Be Love (1934)
The Most Beautiful (1944)
Mr. Thank You (1936)
Muhomatsu, The Rickshaw Man (1958)
The Mysterians (1957)
The Neighbors Wife and Mine (1931)
Nightdrum (1958)
Night and Fog in Japan (1960)
That's Nights Wife (1930)
No Blood Relation (1932)
No Regrets of Our Youth (1946)
Odd Obsession (1959)
Oh, My Son! (1979)
The Oil Hell Murder (1992)
One Way Ticket To Love (1960)
One Wonderful Sunday (1947)
The Only Son (1936)
Osaka Elegy (1936)
Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
Our Marriage (1961)
Passing Fancy (1933)
The Petrified Forest (1973)
The Perfect Game (1958)
Pigs and Battleships (1962)
Pitfall (1962)
The Phantom Horse (1955)
Pleasures of the Flesh (1965)
Phoenix (1947)
The Pornographers (1966)
The Portrait (1958)
Princess from the Moon (1987)
Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955)
Profound Desire of the Gods (1968)
A Quiet Life (1995)
Record of a Tenement Gentleman (1947)
Red Beard (1965)
Repast (1951)
The River Fuefuki (1960)
Rodan (1956)
The Rose on His Arm (1956)
Ronin Gai (1990)
Rusty Knife (1958)
Sada (1998)
Samurai Rebellion (1967)
Samurai Saga (1959)
Samurai Spy (1965)
Sandakan No. 8 (1974)
Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
Sanshiro Sugata Part II (1945)
Scandal (1950)
Scattered Clouds (1967)
The Shadow Within (1970)
Shozo, a Cat, and Two Woman (1956)
Silence (1971)
Sincerity (1953)
Sing A Song of Sex (1967)
Sing, Young People (1963)
Sisters of the Gion (1936)
The Snow Flurry (1959)
Snow Trail (1947)
Sound of the Mountain (1954)
Space Amoeba (1970)
Spring Dreams (1960)
Stakeout (1958)
A Story of Floating Weeds (1934)
Story of a Prostitute (1965)
A Straight Forward Boy (1929)
Street of Shame (1956)
Street Without End (1934)
Street of Love and Hope (1959)
Stolen Desire (1958)
Stray Dog (1949)
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (1939)
Supermarket Woman (1996)
The Suns Burial (1960)
Sword of the Beast (1965)
Take Aim At the Police Van (1960)
Tales of the Golden Geisha (1990)
The Tattered Wings (1955)
A Taxing Woman (1987)
A Taxing Woman Returns (1988)
Tracked (1985)
There Was A Father (1942)
The Thick Walled Room (1956)
The Third Shadow Warrior (1963)
Thirst for Love (1967)
Three Resurrected Drunkards (1968)
Thus, Another Day (1959)
Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan (1959)
Tokyo Chorus (1931)
Tokyo Twilight (1957)
Twenty Four Eyes (1954)
Under The Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975)
Utamaro and His Five Women (1946)
Varan The Unbelievable (1958)
Vendetta of a Samurai (1958)
Violence at Noon (1966)
Walk Cheerfully (1930)
War of the Gargantuas (1966)
The Warped Ones (1960)
Wedding Ring (1950)
What Did the Lady Forget (1937)
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth (1932)
Wild Geese (1953)
Wife (1953)
With Beauty and Sorrow (1965)
Woman (1948)
Woman In Witness Protection (1997)
Woman of Tokyo (1933)
Women of the Night (1948)
Yearning (1964)
Yotsuya Kaidan Part I (1949)
Yotsuya Kaidan Part II (1949)
The Young Rebels (1980)
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
Youth of the Beast (1963)
Youth in Fury (1960)

[cardiac161]

Thanks for this!

Quite distressing to see the lack of Blu-ray releases in North America given the amount of high-praised exposure on films such as Okurobito (Departures) & pretty much almost all of Hirokazu Koreeda's (Like Father Like Son, Maboroshi, Nobody Knows or My Little Sister (though a Korean English sub is available)).

[DukeTogo84]

Edited to include the New Battles Without Honor films (YES!!!!)

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by cardiac161

Thanks for this!

Quite distressing to see the lack of Blu-ray releases in North America given the amount of high-praised exposure on films such as Okurobito (Departures) & pretty much almost all of Hirokazu Koreeda's (Like Father Like Son, Maboroshi, Nobody Knows or My Little Sister (though a Korean English sub is available)).

Which is a bit odd as almost all his films get a DVD release here, but no blu-ray. I always say a DVD is better than nothing, but it would be nice if they released both. I'm pretty sure AFTER THE STORM will be getting a blu-ray in the US.

[logboy]

Originally Posted by duketogo84

Which is a bit odd as almost all his films get a DVD release here, but no blu-ray. I always say a DVD is better than nothing, but it would be nice if they released both. I'm pretty sure AFTER THE STORM will be getting a blu-ray in the US.

should be. via 'film movement', who have a website you can't view outside of america.

[Fabs]

Originally Posted by cardiac161

Thanks for this!

Quite distressing to see the lack of Blu-ray releases in North America given the amount of high-praised exposure on films such as Okurobito (Departures) & pretty much almost all of Hirokazu Koreeda's (Like Father Like Son, Maboroshi, Nobody Knows or My Little Sister (though a Korean English sub is available)).

It's depressing how Maboroshi has no Blu-ray release anywhere in the world.

[Grethiwha]

Thanks for this! I try to keep up with all the interesting Japanese films getting released, but "Bullet Train" slipped by my radar until recently, and I had no idea now that "Brutal Tales of Chivalry" was coming. It's always nice when companies like Twilight Time or Olive stray from their comfort zone (of Golden Age Hollywood flicks) a little bit and shine some light on a few unsung Japanese titles.

Also... TAG WAS ANNOUNCED, WHAT?!!?! YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!
I had no idea. I'm a huge Sono fan and TAG is imo his best work since "Why Don't You Play in Hell?", and my favourite film in general released in the last two years.

[cardiac161]

I'm a Sion Sono fan as well, got almost his films available in Region A:
- Love Exposure
- Guilty of Romance
- Tokyo Tribe
- Why Don't You Play in Hell?
- Himizu

Thanks for letting us know about TAG. I'll be blind-buying this knowing it will be bat-shit crazy and enjoyable!

[Al_The_Strange]

Originally Posted by Grethiwha

Also... TAG WAS ANNOUNCED, WHAT?!!?! YESSSSSSS!!!!!!!
I had no idea. I'm a huge Sono fan and TAG is imo his best work since "Why Don't You Play in Hell?", and my favourite film in general released in the last two years.

Awesome to hear, I might blind-buy TAG as well. I loved Love Exposure, and found Suicide Club, WDYPIH, and Tokyo Tribe pretty interesting.

[Grethiwha]

Originally Posted by cardiac161

I'm a Sion Sono fan as well, got almost his films available in Region A:
- Love Exposure
- Guilty of Romance
- Tokyo Tribe
- Why Don't You Play in Hell?
- Himizu

Thanks for letting us know about TAG. I'll be blind-buying this knowing it will be bat-shit crazy and enjoyable!

That would indeed be all the Sono films on Region A blu-ray, I do believe.

TAG has got to be Sion Sono's most unapologetically bat-shit crazy movie – think Strange Circus but much less "grounded" (haha). It's not quite as high quality IMO - as dark or interesting - as Strange Circus or Guilty of Romance (two of his best), but I definitely recommend it if you like those movies.

I just added it to the blu-ray.com database, should show up shortly. From the looks of it, it's gonna be a bare-bones bd-r, but... I'll take it.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Grethiwha

That would indeed be all the Sono films on Region A blu-ray, I do believe.

TAG has got to be Sion Sono's most unapologetically bat-shit crazy movie – think Strange Circus but much less "grounded" (haha). It's not quite as high quality IMO - as dark or interesting - as Strange Circus or Guilty of Romance (two of his best), but I definitely recommend it if you like those movies.

I just added it to the blu-ray.com database, should show up shortly. From the looks of it, it's gonna be a bare-bones bd-r, but... I'll take it.

Sion Sono has easily become a HUGE name in Japanese cinema in the last few years. He's been directly for awhile, but he's starting to get more and more recognition abroad.

I'll be getting TAG for sure, but wish it wasn't on a recordable disc. However, it seems like all of the companies releases are in this format. Looking forward to watching this one.

[acantho]

get thread idea. I'm always interested in new Japanese films on bluray. I was hopeful that when Arrow announced a US division that we'd start getting more releases here in North America and it does seem to be the case.

[DrunkenPumpkin]

Thread is long long over due.
Great stuff!

[cardiac161]

Would Region A or All Region blu-rays (with English subs) from other locations (HK, Korea, UK, Japan etc) be considered with this thread? Or should it only be kept with North American releases?

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by cardiac161

Would Region A or All Region blu-rays (with English subs) from other locations (HK, Korea, UK, Japan etc) be considered with this thread? Or should it only be kept with North American releases?

I'd prefer to keep it within North America, but if there is a title you really want on there that's all regions or region A with subs, I can include it.

[DukeTogo84]

I created a now out section to put move films that have come out so people can still track them if they didn't realize they had come out.

So yeah, Tampopo is now out, and what a great film. Hope for more Juzo Itami films from Criterion in the future.

[Zillamon51]

Originally Posted by duketogo84

I'd prefer to keep it within North America, but if there is a title you really want on there that's all regions or region A with subs, I can include it.

North America only, please. This is the NA forum; there are other sections for other regions of the world for a reason. Too many threads get bogged down with people talking about international releases. For people who don't import, it makes finding info harder having to sift through it all.

[DukeTogo84]

Originally Posted by Zillamon51

North America only, please. This is the NA forum; there are other sections for other regions of the world for a reason. Too many threads get bogged down with people talking about international releases. For people who don't import, it makes finding info harder having to sift through it all.

I tend to agree, so I think I'll keep it for North America for now. Your avatar makes me hope that Shin Godzilla will soon be on the list. Been waiting forever on that one.

[Zillamon51]

Originally Posted by duketogo84

I tend to agree, so I think I'll keep it for North America for now. Your avatar makes me hope that Shin Godzilla will soon be on the list. Been waiting forever on that one.

Thanks! If Shin Godzilla follows the lead of the Attack on Titan live-action movies (Toho productions distributed by Funimation), it should be out later in the year. Fall, perhaps. I saw it twice in theater, and am looking forward to the Blu!

[Mobe1969]

Don't forget Kairo/Pulse on July 11. I can't wait!