Where's MOTHRA, THE H-MAN, BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE?
Sam 33 inquired: any word on the missing stuff like MOTHRA (Columbia has this I believe), THE H-MAN (Columbia also?), FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS, WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, GORATH, BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE, and...
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"That's because you have different branches staffed with different people, different tastes, and different agendas. The Sony Repretory folks LOVE these movies, while the home video division doesn't."...
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All hail Mike S.! Thanks for the kind words and for chiming in! Mike was the man responsible for the US version of GODZILLA 2000 and Sony Repertory's acquistion and subtitling of several classic...
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Quote:I don't know anything about Jun Fukuda's ESPY being licensed by Discotek, so thanks for the heads up.Oh I don't know that Discotek has licensed it for sure; just that I thought I'd heard they...
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No worries, Jim! :)August Ragone kaijupro@yahoo.com
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Any chance we'll ever see a home video release of LATITUDE ZERO?
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Quote:Any chance we'll ever see a home video release of LATITUDE ZERO?It recently came out in Dai Nippon! There's a (pretty expensive) R2 box set that includes the original English language version....
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Quote:But, I am sure that the same person who was able to make a copy for me, might be interested in helping you out. He frequents here, so maybe he'll chime in -- if I haven't been too presumptuous....
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Sounds good, Ian! As for LATITUDE ZERO, the Japanese DVD box set features three versions of the film, the original Japanese release (89 minutes, dubbed in Japanese), the longer US version (105...
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Here's some additional info.... Classic Media has rights to RODAN and WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, and is planning DVDs for both in 2007. They did not renew several other non-Godzilla UPA Toho films...
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If the HALF HUMAN 'job' is still open, I'd take you up on it. I just bought a DVD recorder a couple of weeks ago. I could make you a copy and make a 'master' to run a batch of DVD-Rs for anyone who...
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Quote:Toho has pulled both the Japanese and US versions of HALF HUMAN from circulation, so a US DVD release wont be happening. Well not a legal one silly. But this versions will have both versions...
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font color=red]I dont know the print status of THE LAST WAR or GORATH, but a nice looking copy of HUMAN VAPOR was shown on the cable station Trio a couple of years back. It opened with a Samuel...
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I have a slight pet peeve over the R1 VARAN DVD. Instead of giving me the shorter broadcast TV version of the film on the same DVD as the original Japanese feature, I would have rather had the...
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Quote:I could care less about HALF HUMAN ever resurfacing again, but don't write off JUJIN YUKI-OTOKO, which I have seen twice at various Toho Retrospectives in Tokyo over the years -- so, it's not...
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Quote:I have a slight pet peeve over the R1 VARAN DVD. Instead of giving me the shorter broadcast TV version of the film on the same DVD as the original Japanese feature, I would have rather had the...
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Yet my friend was told by Toho that they owned the rights to Varan when he inquired about itand MB was even trying at one point to audio dub the Japanese print with the Myron Healy version until they...
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I'm certainly not claiming to be Nostradamus, just reporting what Toho told me... I heard the same thing from Toho about VARAN in 1985/86, and then it was released about a year later. My point is,...
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Quote:(Classic Media) did not renew several other non-Godzilla UPA Toho films (including FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD), and those rights are set to expire at the end of 2006. Classic Media told me...
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Quote:The interesting thing would to be able to find out whether Brenco purchased these films outright into perpetuity. Otherwise, the rights will eventually elapse and revert back to Toho -- which...
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