Toho Kingdom

tbeasley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 5:34 pmWith Sogo Ishii's Burst City under Arrow's belt as well I would love to see more obscure J-horror/sci-fi/cyberpunk in general - Ishii, Shozin Fukui, anyone!

m0nster01 wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 7:14 pm Anyone know if there is a delay with Shout Factory's King Kong bd?

Amazon lists it as releasing tomorrow but it also says it won't ship to the 20th.

If I keep my order, will i be charged tomorrow for something that won't ship for a week?

tbeasley wrote: ↑Tue Apr 06, 2021 4:57 am

tbeasley wrote: ↑Sun Mar 21, 2021 5:34 pmWith Sogo Ishii's Burst City under Arrow's belt as well I would love to see more obscure J-horror/sci-fi/cyberpunk in general - Ishii, Shozin Fukui, anyone!

Well there's this -
Yoshihiro Nishimura's Anatomia Extinction Gets Collector's Edition Blu-ray

In his second piece for Dark Horizons, our correspondent Adam Yeend reflects on the slow demise of the physical media industry in which he has worked for over a decade, and what we’re all losing in the transition to streaming.

tbeasley wrote: ↑Wed May 26, 2021 6:07 pm Editorial: “A Case for Physical Media”

In his second piece for Dark Horizons, our correspondent Adam Yeend reflects on the slow demise of the physical media industry in which he has worked for over a decade, and what we’re all losing in the transition to streaming.

canofhumdingers wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:44 am Speaking of ownership, I’m just realizing I my have missed out on the chance to upgrade many of my dvds to Blu or better for classic films at reasonable prices. For example, I just went looking and it seems King Kong ‘33 and Beast from 20,000 Fathoms are out of print and going up. Those films have been readily available for so long that I just put off picking up the blu rays but now they’re becoming difficult to find for anything near reasonable. I was actually hoping Kong would get reissued with the new film being such a hit, but I guess not. :-/

Terasawa wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 10:13 am King Kong will enter public domain on January 1, 2029, so WB probably only has one more full "print run" on home media before then. I know there were some rumors recently that WB was getting out of the home media market - if those were truly just rumors, then I think we'll seen KK'33 go back in print before its copyright protection lapses.

This mammoth humanist drama by Masaki Kobayashi is one of the most staggering achievements of Japanese cinema. Originally filmed and released in three installments of two parts each, the nine-and-a-half-hour The Human Condition, adapted from Junpei Gomikawa’s six-volume novel, tells of the journey of the well-intentioned yet naive Kaji—played by the Japanese superstar Tatsuya Nakadai—from labor camp supervisor to Imperial Army soldier to Soviet prisoner of war. Constantly trying to rise above a corrupt system, Kaji time and again finds his morals to be an impediment rather than an advantage. A raw indictment of Japan’s wartime mentality as well as a personal existential tragedy, Kobayashi’s riveting, gorgeously filmed epic is novelistic cinema at its best.