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    Format Region Video Standard Subtitles Distributor, Product ID Release Date More Images Playable on standard US players? Where to buy

Regular Edition Japanese Release DVD-9 R2 NTSC none Toei
36959
December 21 2003   NO

16:9 Letterbox
Audio Track 1: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Surround Japanese
Audio Track 2: Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo Surround Japanese

Bonus:
BRII Seal (sticker) "A-Type"

DVD Extras:
Gala premiere stage greeting
Alternate "Farewell to the Piano" scene
Warsaw orchestra score recording session
Trailers and TV spots
Photo Gallery (100 stills)

Kinji Fukasaku Filmography
Character profiles
Kinji Fukasaku at rehearsals featurette
Auditions and readings featurette
Cast members' quick interviews featurette
BRII Act text information
Easter Egg - Kinji Fukasaku visiting Gunkanjima and working on the movie; DVD credits


Limited Edition "Mission Box" Japanese Release

DVD-9 R2 NTSC

none

Toei December 21 2003


NO Amazon Japan, CDJapan, Yesasia.com 

Audio Track 1: Dolby Digital Stereo Surround Japanese
Audio Track 2: Dolby Digital 5.1 Stereo Surround Japanese


Bonuses:

Special "Mission Box"
BRII Seal (sticker) "B-Type"

Bangle
Necklace

DVD Extras:
DISC 1:
Gala premiere stage greeting
Alternate "Farewell to the Piano" scene
Warsaw orchestra score recording session
Trailers and TV spots
Photo Gallery (100 stills)

Kinji Fukasaku Filmography
Character profiles
Kinji Fukasaku at rehearsals featurette
Auditions and readings featurette
Cast members' quick interviews featurette
BRII Act text information
Easter Egg - Kinji Fukasaku visiting Gunkanjima and working on the movie; DVD credits


DISC 2 (tentative)
Theatrical premiere stage greeting
Kinji Fukasaku's birthday commemoration stage greeting
ANB TV Special Volume 1
ANB TV Special Volume 2

WOWOW TV Special
Press kit promotional featurette
Camera test footage (combat rehearsals)
Featurette - Kinji Fukasakku filming the helicopter and classroom scenes for BR1; Yukihiro Kotani visiting the BRII Auditions; Kinji Fukasaku blowing out his birthday cake during BR1's production.
Kinji Fukasaku coaching actresses in rehearsals for a scene for BRII
Gag reel
Kinji Fukasaku Filmography with selected trailers from his films
Multiple angle tent scene
Photo Gallery 2 (100 more stills)
Easter Egg - Kinji Fukasaku tributes from cast and crew
, DVD credits

Hong Kong release DVD-9 R3 NTSC

Chinese,
English (removable) 

Universe
 
January 31, 2004   NO

2-Disc set. Second disc (which is DVD-5 R3 NTSC) contains special features, including cast and crew filmographies, trailers, a making-of featurette, the Press Kit promotional featurette, the Gala Premiere stage greeting, a stills gallery, and trailers for other Universe releases. And the featurettes are subbed in English!

 

 

Hong Kong VCD release

NTSC VCD

Chinese, English
(simultaneous, nonremovable)

Universe January 31, 2004

 

YES
(vcd-capable players)

VCD version of the HK release is likely to have no extras.

  Korean
release
DVD-9 R0 NTSC

Korean,
English (removable) 

Starmax
 
May 21, 2004   YES

2-Disc set. Second disc contains Korean-subbed extras originally found in Mission Box Set.
1000 copies of this release were a "limited edition" that included an embroidered BRII patch and a 28-page photo booklet.

 

UK
release
DVD-5 R2? PAL

English (removable) 

Tartan Asia Extreme  August 23, 2004   NO cd-wow.com
Extras: original trailer, Asia Extreme trailers, Film Notes
DTS Audio
SPECIAL VERSION (BRII: REVENGE)
 

Japanese release

DVD-9 R2 NONE   September 21, 2004   NO

DVD release of the "Special Version" of the film, which adds 20 minutes of previously omitted footage.

 

BOOTLEGS

Camera Bootleg
DVD

DVD-5 R0 Chinese, English (nonremovable)   September 2003   YES  

Audio track 1: Japanese (theater audio)
Audio track 2: Chinese dub

Bootleg is based on camcorder recording taken in a Hong Kong theater in the summer 0f 2003; missing 30 minutes of footage from beginning, end, and multiple spots in the middle; poorly framed, mostly dark, bad audio (you can even hear the bootlegger eat popcorn and burp), generally unwatchable--but back in that day, this version (and internet versions of it) was the only way someone outside Asia could see the movie.

 


Ctenosaur/
Cannibal King
Bootleg DVD

DVD-5 R0 English, German (removable)   January 2004   YES  

This bootleg is based on the Japanese release. Re-encoding to fit the material on DVD-5 results in more artifacting on the feature film and severe compression effects on the extras, but the two audio tracks are intact, and the translation is bound to be the best available until the British DVD arrives in November 2004.

The single-disk version of this bootleg contains the gala premiere stage greeting, the Warsaw orchestra recording, the rehearsals featurette, Shiori's "Farewell to the Piano" segment, and a trailer. None of the extras are subbed.

This item is also offered with a second disc, which contains the extras found on the special features disc. Again, the image suffers because of the additional compression. None of the extras are subbed, either.

DVD's direct from Cannibal King are on DVD-R's. DVD's from some other sources are factory-pressed.

 

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