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Summary: EXCELLENT TRANSFER
Review: I was definetly shocked upon playing this DVD. The video and audio quality were extraordinary. I will have the complete set if this is an examplyof what the quality will continue to be like.
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Summary: San Paulo Gentlemen is mistaken about the transfer
Review: I'm the owner of AnimEigo, the company that releases the LW&C films in the US. I believe that Pedro is reporting on the video quality of one of the bootleg editions of LW&C, which have horrible video quality. The huge difference between the quality he reports on LW&C1 and LW&C2 is the tipoff.The official versions of the LW&C films has the superb video quality the other reviewers mention because they are made using a brand new, high-definition digital transfer from brand-new prints struck specifically for this release.
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Summary: LoneWolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Review: It is nice to see that this film has finaly made it to DVD. Though I have seen the series before un-cut and in wide screen on SBS chanel 28 Australia it is a welcome addition to my DVD collection. I my self love Japanese sword flicks movies. But you dont have to be a sword films to like this films. Horror fans would be pleased by the blood spraying. So better put grandma off to bed unless she likes to see guy's with swords through there head's! The DVD transfer is great and the picture is great for the prodution it went through originaly. I am also a reader of the original comic series and am also happy to say how close they kept it to the images in them. I recomend it to sword flick and horror fans alike.
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Summary: What a Swordsman
Review: Itto Ogami is the coolest swordsman I have ever seen. The Chinese swordsman novels and movies and other samurai movies are not as cool. Ogami just walked and stood like a stone but when he meant to kill, he moved elegantly with heads and legs of his enemies just chopped off and flew away. For the sake of vengeance, violence became just all beautiful, it is even erotic, if it is conducted by the master Ogami. The duel with the best of the Yagyu Clan and other group fighting scenes, either with bandits or with samurai, were just perfectly choreographed. Being betrayed by the Yagyu Clan, Ogami just turned all his enemies into desperation, begging for instant death. He was just too good to be defeated. With his wife killed in the betrayal and his family members all eliminated except his toddler son, Ogami killed like a blood-thirsty lone wolf, with the vision of creating a world of gore in which human flesh is treated as sashimi. A surrealist dream is created in the process. The beginning of a great series and a male-chauvinist masterpiece. I look forward to seeing all of them, alone, not with any ladies around, perhaps.
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Summary: LW&C DVDs are full widescreen
Review: Just so there is no confusion, the AnimEigo LW&C DVDs (and all our samurai DVDs) are full widescreen in the original aspect ratio. NOTHING has been chopped off or pan and scanned. NOTHING! The DVDs are 16:9 anamorphic encoded, and since the original films are have higher aspect ratios than this, they are letterboxed. The confusion arises from the fact that if your haven't configured your DVD player and TV correctly (in particular, widescreen TVs), the image can appear either squashed (the Toho logo at the start will be oval) or have the sides clipped off. What you have to do to get the best video quality is 1) if you have a widescreen TV, configure the DVD player so that it knows this, and configure the TV so it knows it is getting widescreen video. Be careful about TV modes where it displays a 16:9 image in 4:3 with the edges clipped. 2) If you have a regular 4:3 TV, make sure the DVD player is configured this way, otherwise it'll send out a 16:9 signal which will appear squashed on the TV.
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Summary: LW&C DVDs are full widescreen
Review: Just so there is no confusion, the AnimEigo LW&C DVDs (and all our samurai DVDs) are full widescreen in the original aspect ratio. NOTHING has been chopped off or pan and scanned. NOTHING! The DVDs are 16:9 anamorphic encoded, and since the original films are have higher aspect ratios than this, they are letterboxed. The confusion arises from the fact that if your haven't configured your DVD player and TV correctly (in particular, widescreen TVs), the image can appear either squashed (the Toho logo at the start will be oval) or have the sides clipped off. What you have to do to get the best video quality is 1) if you have a widescreen TV, configure the DVD player so that it knows this, and configure the TV so it knows it is getting widescreen video. Be careful about TV modes where it displays a 16:9 image in 4:3 with the edges clipped. 2) If you have a regular 4:3 TV, make sure the DVD player is configured this way, otherwise it'll send out a 16:9 signal which will appear squashed on the TV.
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Summary: LW&C DVDs are full widescreen
Review: Just so there is no confusion, the AnimEigo LW&C DVDs (and all our samurai DVDs) are full widescreen in the original aspect ratio. NOTHING has been chopped off or pan and scanned. NOTHING! The DVDs are 16:9 anamorphic encoded, and since the original films are have higher aspect ratios than this, they are letterboxed. The confusion arises from the fact that if your haven't configured your DVD player and TV correctly (in particular, widescreen TVs), the image can appear either squashed (the Toho logo at the start will be oval) or have the sides clipped off. What you have to do to get the best video quality is 1) if you have a widescreen TV, configure the DVD player so that it knows this, and configure the TV so it knows it is getting widescreen video. Be careful about TV modes where it displays a 16:9 image in 4:3 with the edges clipped. 2) If you have a regular 4:3 TV, make sure the DVD player is configured this way, otherwise it'll send out a 16:9 signal which will appear squashed on the TV.
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Summary: Koch Vision or AnimEigo Studio?
Review: Koch Vision Entertainment is an offical distributor of AnimEigo. The Lone Wolf and Cub series are digital transfer, translated and subtitled by AnimEigo and they did a wonderful job.
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Summary: The best comic to movie adaptation
Review: Move over Kill Bill, the japanese were more inventive with their sword fights thirty years ago. These films (all six) are breathtakingly beautifull, well acted, well coreographed and highly entertaining. If you've read the comics, don't worry, the writer and illustrator helped make sure that all six movies are very close to the comic, and as movies, stand on par with their inspiration. The lead actor is trained in samurai sword use so there is no six month crash course to get him up to snuff for the movies like Tom Cruise or Uma Thurman had to do, and it shows! If you like horror films (there is an awfull lot of blood, one of the many things Tarantino took from this genre) then this should give you a welcome change of focus. Anyone who likes Holloywoods new interest in comic adaptations should be pleased with this. Yes, the DVD transfer is not the greatest, but it really depends what type of T.V. you have. I still give five stars based on my belief that you will not see any films of this genre that are better than these subtle masterpieces from the early seventies. Definitely worth owning.
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Summary: Animeigo Has Finally Released This On DVD!
Review: Not really a review. Just a news bulletin for anyone thinking of investing in the VHS version of this film because they got tired of waiting for the DVD - Animeigo has finally gotten around to releasing three Samurai Cinema titles on DVD: Sword of Vengeance; Baby Cart At The River Styx; and Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo. Apparently, they will hit the retail chains later in the year (2003). They're definitely worth waiting for.
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