Bill Geiger

Well, I paid less than $61.00 for my box set through Amazon Japan. Guess I was one of the lucky ones.

DrGerbil

Lucky? Not really, but you were decisive and knew that pulling the trigger would be a good idea. That is a damn good price when you realize they are going for $140 on ebay. I had an opportunity to buy the box and passed. I have no regrets, especially given how small that damn sword is... I can't even kill my ex-gf with that!

Pavko

She could actually choke on it

tsamfan

I loved this movie and am dying to see the uncut version. Is there anyway to make my DVD player change regions?

DizzyD

Hi

Got my box set from Amazon Jap today. Since the menu is in Japanese, can some post some translation here. Btw main menu I am fine, its the special features that I am lost.

Thanks

Pavko

Just give it a try....what is the worst that could happen?
I know for certain that the upper button on the main menu page is for "Play movie"
the second is for "scene selection" and the third or forth is for audiosetup

There is no "selfdestruct-button" so wit a little trial and error you can find out yourself....Just start with the first one and work your way down with the other buttons....

good luck

Giles

I agree I just explored the disc and slowly figured it all out myself.

watch out for that easter egg highlight though that ejects your disc and bisects your face in half -

slop101

I just got mine from dvdslimited - no "jacket" cover, though - it seems like only people that ordered with HMV are getting those.

Anyone in Japan wanna pick one up for me?

matome

Depends on which player you have. Some players have hidden menus that allow you to remove/change region codes. If you have a "big" name player (Sony, Panasonic), most likely it won't have these menus. A lot of the cheap Asian players have the workarounds (Apex, Daewoo, Cyberhome). Or, you can get software to bypass region codes if you want to play it on your computer DVD player.

Josh Z

www.dvdrhelp.com has info of this type.

cultshock

One funny thing I noticed on ebay: some people are actually breaking up the Japanese box sets and selling the items individually. Some idiot paid over $100.00 just for the damn Okinawa shirt! (he could have gotten the whole box set for only a little more than that price from other ebay sellers)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...239969612&rd=1

DrGerbil

Some people just aren't that bright... I would have trouble stomaching $100 for the entire box and some lunatic pays that much for the shirt alone! And I thought paying $500 for a copy of Salo was the height of idiocy. Maybe I should buy a couple of boxes and break them up... I would probably double or triple my investment.

mrhan

I checked out that link and the other KB stuff the guy is selling from the box. In less than 2 hours all the bidding ends and this guy is going to make at least $300 off of one KB box.

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...sort=3&rows=50

DrGerbil

Lots of fancy bells and whistles and the movie gets lost in all of it. I wonder if those people would bid if they knew they could get the uncut DVD for $40? $100 for a t-shirt.... Wonka was right, there are times in life where there are no words...

eMoneyBags

One thing that pisses me off about the jap. version is it's not anamorphic. It's 16:9 LB, as stated on the cover. This was a bit of a letdown since I really looked forward to owning the uncut japanese version. Now I have to get the "normal" version as well (or just wait for a SE of it).

DrGerbil

http://www.dvdasian.com/cgi-bin/dvda...ml?id=EaoMgu4A

They have it listed as anamorphic... unless of course, it's a mistake. If it is letterboxed, that is a big disappointment.

matome

The Japanese disc is most certainly anamorphic.

Heliosphann

Yeah, most def. I just watched it last night. I also though the colors looked better than the R1 DVD.

eMoneyBags

Well. The official distributor in Japan has these pages http://www.geneon-ent.co.jp/movie/killbill/dvd.html
There it says 16:9 LB , and on the backcover of my DVD (ordered from amazon.co.jp) it also says 16:9 LB. Now the way I see it, LB means letterbox. Perhaps I've misundestood something here ?

slop101

Just chiming in to also say that the Japanese R2 is indeed anamorphic - and yes, the colors look better than the R1, but it also has a little bit more edge enhancement.

eMoneyBags

I guess LB stand for something else then

eMoneyBags

[offtopic]Can't find the 'edit post' function anywhere. Wanted to correct a typo. But I guess that won't be happening.[/offtopic]

D-Ball

16:9 means it is anamorphic, and LB does mean letterbox. Since the aspect ratio of the movie is 2.35:1, there will still be black bars present on 16:9 displays which is why they label it letterbox.

eMoneyBags

Thank you for clearing that up! Must be something wrong with my DVD-player since the european R2 looks far superior in quality on my TV. Must be something about PAL-NTSC, supposedly my TV supports both.

Josh Z

I assume you're in Europe, then? Most European TVs do not display true NTSC. They convert it to a format called PAL60 that is sort of a halfway point between NTSC and PAL. The processing generally reduces picture quality.