Blu Ray Wish Lists

[william newell]

[lhb412]

^ It's the Hammer one.

Huh, a poster on blu-ray.com says Media Blasters will release Gappa on Blu next month. We all know how reliable that company is, so on the off-chance this is actually released it's probably a good idea to pick it up when it comes out because it'll probably go out of print in like three days.

[Heiseigodzilla425]

[Gwangi]

[lhb412]

Tex Avery Blu-ray coming soon from the Warner Archive!

[william newell]

YES!!!!!!!

[Jinzo Ningen]

[lhb412]

Dear sweet merciful heavens...

[tbeasley]

^ Came here to post that, and the feeling is mutual! One of those releases that knocks others off the list to take top priority.

[lhb412]

^ Just recently I was thinking how cool it would be if someone licensed Tetsuo for home video release here, and then Arrow comes in and exceeds all expectations I had in my wildest dreams!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Good news for 4K fans Jaws is scheduled for a 4K release in June.

Also the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings films are all getting 4K treatment but we don't have an exact time yet. The YouTuber who posted a video seems to think it'll be either the end of this year or next year closer to the Amazon series to help promote that.

[tbeasley]

[lhb412]

[lhb412]

I just realized that, even though I've been buying releases since almost the beginning of the DVD era when I was like 12 years old or something like that, even with that long commitment towards buying official North American releases of this tokusatsu stuff my personal collection of tokusatsu Blu-rays and DVDs will have doubled in size in just a few years because of the number of releases were seeing right now. That's incredible.

[Gwangi]

[Jinzo Ningen]

Ooooooh! The Paul Waggoner version????

[Gwangi]

[Dai]

OMG!

One of the best martial arts fantasies of all time is getting a UK blu-ray.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Zu-Warri ... ay/227844/

Also, Kwaidan is finally getting a UK blu-ray.

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Kwaidan-Blu-ray/262562/

[lhb412]

^ I hope HK fantasy, action, and martial arts flicks become the new go-to thing for the boutique home video distributors to license.

Of course, it seems like just now they've come around to doing that with tokusatsu, and for that I'm very grateful. It feels like those same distributors will never run out of cheap, obscure old horror films that the gorehounds just lap up. There must be a million of those movies!

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Shout Factory announced Orca the Killer Whale for a June 30th release date. No word on special features yet but still an excellent announcement non the less. I wonder if they're doing this to match the Jaws 4K release which is due out this summer? I know Orca was made because Jaws was successful.

I did suggest they look into Alligator today on their FB page. Henry isn't the only one that'd like to get that movie on BD, hell they could do an Alligator/Alligator 2: The Mutation double pack and I'd buy that.

EDIT: Well I found out from someone on my FB comment that Shout said they'd love to do Alligator but can't. Not sure why but that sucks. Hopefully whomever can do Alligator does a BD release this year.

[lhb412]

[quote="lhb412"]^ I hope HK fantasy, action, and martial arts flicks become the new go-to thing for the boutique home video distributors to license.

Of course, it seems like just now they've come around to doing that with tokusatsu, and for that I'm very grateful. It feels like those same distributors will never run out of cheap, obscure old horror films that the gorehounds just lap up. There must be a million of those movies![/quote]

Man, I was projecting into the future here! I've spent the last year really getting into Hong Kong martial arts movies via the plethora of release as we've gotten from Arrow Video, Criterion, 88 Films (like Arrow, a UK distributor now putting out stuff in the US), Warner Archive put out some Jackie Chan and supposedly will be dipping more into their Golden Harvest catalog), and I just ordered the first of what will supposedly be more of HK titles from Vinegar Syndrome.

Between this and various tokusatsu releases, there is simply too much to buy.

Oh, and rumor has it that Shout has acquired King Kong Lives (and maybe Kong '76 4K coming?)

[lhb412]

Wow! Shout's new releases haven't wowed me in the last year or so because it's mostly just UHD upgrades, but November titles have leaked and we're finally getting The Company of Wolves and a big boxed set of Sonny Chiba action movies! Other companies have recently specialized in Asian genre films, so I was kinda gobsmacked to see this major announcement.

I think they might be Toei films? Would make sense, as they're working with them for Sentai and Rider.