Lee Sang-il's 'Hula Girls' R2 J DVD with English Subtitles March 16th 2007.

Wipe another one of the list, the 'Subtitle This' list which I am kind of responsible for maintaining, of films that we would like to see issued on DVD with English Subtitles. Whilst American happily paints itself into the corner of extreme, genre movies, elitist or oddly-commercial portrayals and manipulations (fine, some of those films we do want, but not only those films year in, year out), when a film appears on its home territory with English Subtitles it tends to make all that look a little odd. Good film is a good film, as always.

Here's one I've wanted to see for a while, an although we stand a good chance of being familiar with the idea of Asia as a continent turning out good films, when the artists truly cross borders (Korean Director, Japanese film) it can get a little confusing - so this is that then, a Japanese film by a Korean Director, the Director behind 'Scrap Heaven' and the Director behind '69' to name but a couple. This has been, if I remember correctly, both a critical and a commercial hit.

'Hula Girls' Review here at Twitch by Opus.
Hula Girls teaser trailer #2 (downloadable 9.2 MB MOV file).
Hula Girls teaser trailer #2 (downloadable 6.6 MB WMV file).
Hula Girls teaser trailer #1 (downloadable 5.6 MB MPEG-4 file).
Hula Girls teaser trailer #1 (downloadable 5 MB WMV file).
Hula Girls official website

Twitch: Article on Hula Girls, etc..

No YesAsia listing for 'Hula Girls' yet (watch out for that though) but...
Pre-Order Lee Sang-il's 'Scrap Heaven' on R1 USA DVD at Amazon.com [Direct Link].