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November 10, 2004
IZO on DVD in December? Born To Fight Delayed.
I'm trying to get this confirmed, but I just stumbled across something on the official web site for Takashi Miike's IZO that seems to be saying that the Japanese DVD for the film will release on December 22nd. Unless Babelfish is steering me wrong we're looking at both single and double disc editions, but no word yet on subtitles.
If you've not heard of it yet, IZO is Japanese cult director Takashi Miike's time travelling samurai flick co-starring Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano and ultimate fighter (and brother to NFL'er Warren) Bob Sapp. This thing looks like utter madness, but don't take my word for it ... check out the trailer here and the Japan Times review here. If anyone out there can shed some additional light on the DVD situation, we'd appreciate it ...
And while I'm in a DVD news mood, here's something a little less happy. We posted a week or so back that Thai action flick Born to Fight was due to release in Thailand on November 7th ... well, that date has come and gone and there's no sign of it. I wrote the people at EthaiCD and they've confirmed that the release was delayed, though they couldn't say anything about the reason why or what the new date would be. They have promised to let us know when they have more info, though ...
» Posted by Todd at November 10, 2004 08:50 PM
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Actually, Bob Sapp has nothing to do with that NFL-player. Bob Sapp once played professional football though. And he is not an "ultimate figher", thats like saying a tennis player is a wimbledonplayer :)
Bob has never participated in the event called "Ultimate fighting", he has fought in Japan though under (more or less) the same kind of rules.
» Posted by David Lundquist at November 11, 2004 09:47 AM
Chances are this won't have subtitles, which is a bummer. I can't remember any Japanese DVD release of a Miike film having English subtitles. The good news is that, if you can wait, it will no doubt get a US release, and probably in England too.
» Posted by crazybee at November 11, 2004 10:21 AM
hmmm. have emailed friend in japan to see if he can find out : cant find the info on the izo site, and have only found one japanese retailer with a minimalist listing for the release, which does allow me to at least confirm the release date is at Todd put it...
» Posted by logboy at November 11, 2004 10:58 AM
I found it on the BBS linked from the main site ...
» Posted by Todd at November 11, 2004 11:32 AM
cheers gom for this :
Indeed, IZO is scheduled to be released on DVD in Japan on
Wednesday December 22. The catalog number of the standard edition is KSXD-25135; that of the limited special edition, IZO tokubetsuhan (shokaigenteiseisan), is KSXD-25136.
» Posted by logboy at November 11, 2004 03:40 PM
have email cdjapan with code to see if they list and find out about subtitles...
» Posted by logboy at November 11, 2004 03:50 PM
as far as cdjapan as concerned, at this time it looks like no subtitles for IZO.
» Posted by logboy at November 17, 2004 01:46 PM