‘The Magic Hour’ with English subs!
Posted by kevin at 4:19am on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 EDT
Filed under: DVD releases
It’s always a nice surprise when you discover a Japanese R2 DVD release will have English subtitles. Not only because we get to watch the movie months, if not years ahead of the normal turn-around, but because Japanese DVD releases are usually so much better than the treatments we get here in the US. The downside? They’re expensive as hell.
Japanese distributor Pony Canyon is big on offering English subs with their releases, and thankfully they’ve continued that trend with their release of Koki Mitani’s smash hit, The Magic Hour, due out December 3rd. There will be 3 versions: Standard Edition, Special Edition (standard disc + bonus features disc), and Blu-ray. See links below for specs.
Standard Edition DVD
Special Edition DVD
Blu-ray
Also, if you haven’t been paying attention to our DVD release schedule (RSS feed), there have been a few other notable R2 DVDs with English subs released or announced recently:
The Glory of Team Batista
Kekkon Shiyo yo
700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police
Fine, Totally Fine
Gachi Boy
Cyborg Girl
Shaolin Girl
Some notable releases that don’t have subs? “Cyborg Girl”, “The Chasing World”, and “Sushi King Goes to New York”. That’s cold.
Tags: cyborg girl, the magic hour
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And don’t forget, some kind soul in comments elsewhere on this site pointed out that smash festival hit Zenzen Daijoubu (aka Fine, Totally Fine) was released last week with english subs! Most retailers incorrectly list this as lacking english subs, but the studio’s site clearly indicates subs are included, and amazon.co.jp confirmed it via email.
All of Mitani Koki’s movies include subs on the R2 DVDs.
Posted by lblisters at 12:49pm EDT on Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Ohh.. chalk me up as being one of the ones fooled by those listings. Thanks for confirming that
updated!
Posted by kevin at 1:04pm EDT on Wednesday, September 3, 2008
YesAsia ist listing CYBORG SHE with English subs, which is confirmed by the movies’ blog.
字幕 ①音声解説 ②英語 (=English)
http://blog.livedoor.jp/cyborgshe/tag/DVD
Posted by Ken Hasamoto at 9:38am EDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008
“cyborg she” has been certified for release in HK, so hope for a cheaper subbed disc there..,
Posted by logboy at 11:01am EDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008
Nice! I’ve got another mystery.. Satoshi Miki’s “In the Pool”. I see ripped subs all over the place but I can’t find confirmation that any specific DVD release has them.
Posted by kevin at 11:37am EDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008
dunno. some stuff does get fansubbed, so wondering what clues suggest they’re ripped from an official release?
Posted by logboy at 5:52pm EDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008
the main clue was the subtitle file was named DVD_VOLUME.Title1.DVDRip.. I suppose I could just buy the DVD and add the subtitles in a video player if it doesn’t have them
Posted by kevin at 5:56pm EDT on Saturday, September 6, 2008
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kinda tempted, but I’ve such a long list of interesting films, we’ll have to see how this stands out closer to the release date. I’d like the blu-ray.
Posted by logboy at 10:09am EDT on Wednesday, September 3, 2008