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03-22-05, 03:14 AM
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Hi people..
I need some help in locating the 2 disc version of Shiri..
- Sp Ed 2 Disc Bitwin Korean version - but its got to be Region 2
Yesasia.com have it listed as Region 0 - but don't state if its the Pal format or not ...
Has anyone purchased from Yesasia.com and would it be better to purchase more than one dvd from their site, keeping in mind the shipment charges etc.
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I need some help in locating the 2 disc version of Shiri..
- Sp Ed 2 Disc Bitwin Korean version - but its got to be Region 2
Yesasia.com have it listed as Region 0 - but don't state if its the Pal format or not ...
Has anyone purchased from Yesasia.com and would it be better to purchase more than one dvd from their site, keeping in mind the shipment charges etc.
Thanks*
03-22-05, 05:04 PM
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Thanks guys for your help.
I recently rented out the movie Shiri (my first venture into Korean cinema) and the movie just amazed me on quite a number of aspects.
You know when every now and then you come across a film that just blows you away and you can't get it out of your head, leading you add the film to your dvd collection.
The one I rented out was the Tartan dvd. I'm in the U.K, and Tartan is only a single disc... I thought why not go for the double disc version. Plus I can't stand the U.K cover for the dvd lol.
By any chance do YesAsia sell Region 2 dvds or are they at the moment only specialising in Region 3 and Region 0.
There are a few more dvds on their site that I'm interested in obtaining.
If worst comes to worst then I may have to go for the Tartan 1 disc version unless I purchase from say a Japanese site.
Actually just had a brainwave... :-) My sister is travelling to China tommorrow.. lolz..
I recently rented out the movie Shiri (my first venture into Korean cinema) and the movie just amazed me on quite a number of aspects.
You know when every now and then you come across a film that just blows you away and you can't get it out of your head, leading you add the film to your dvd collection.
The one I rented out was the Tartan dvd. I'm in the U.K, and Tartan is only a single disc... I thought why not go for the double disc version. Plus I can't stand the U.K cover for the dvd lol.
By any chance do YesAsia sell Region 2 dvds or are they at the moment only specialising in Region 3 and Region 0.
There are a few more dvds on their site that I'm interested in obtaining.
If worst comes to worst then I may have to go for the Tartan 1 disc version unless I purchase from say a Japanese site.
Actually just had a brainwave... :-) My sister is travelling to China tommorrow.. lolz..
03-22-05, 05:41 PM
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Its def worth a rent out... Scott.
some background on the film..
SHIRI is a big budget flick from Korea that rips into the conventions of the Hollywood action movie with glee, mixing throat-tightening romance with Teflon-hard action to create the kind of heartbreaking blockbuster that Hollywood long ago forgot how to make. It's not an art movie a la CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, but a good old-fashioned action flick where the engine's maxed-out, the needle's in the red, and the characters stand to lose something much more than their lives.
Locked in a fragile détente with its famine-wracked, communist neighbor to the North, South Korea lives in a state of constant national emergency. It is policed by a task force of special agents whose personal lives have withered and died as they root out infiltrators and sleeper agents, rush from crisis to calamity, pursue rumors of war and chase terrorists who vanish like ghosts. One particular phantom, a female North Korean sniper named Hee, has led agents Ryu (Han Suk-Gyu) and Lee (Song Kang-Ho) through a nightmare of burnt corpses and bloody crime scenes for ten years before suddenly vanishing.
One year later she resurfaces, and with her comes a squad of North Korean commandos who have infiltrated Seoul and master-minded the theft of an experimental explosive.
A whirlwind of fear and paranoia engulfs the city as civilian targets are bombed and Agents Lee and Ryu chase an enemy who is always one charred and blackened step ahead of them. As Agent Lee is pulled in two directions by his fragile fiancée, Hyun, and the dead-eyed terrorist, Hee, the personal becomes the political and in the blink of an eye affairs of the political and in the blink of an eye affairs of the heart become affairs of state.
Good people and bad politics, ideals and extremism, suicide bombers and special agents, slam into one another like hyper-charged electrons in a particle accelerator, as SHIRI strips our nerves raw and sets our blood boiling. Whip smart and lightening fast, SHIRI gives more - more action, more romance, more style - Brains buzzing, hearts broken, nerves drained and spent.
About The Production -
Even before it opened SHIRI was a risk.
South Korean director Kang Je-Gyu's previous movie, a time traveling fantasy romance, was a hit but SHIRI had been rewritten twelve times.
The cast was loaded with stars and the female lead was fresh off a popular TV miniseries but the budget was the highest to date for a Korean movie (nearly $5 million), and principle sponsor Samsung was watching its performance closely. And, of course, the biggest risk of all was
the topic:
SHIRI is about reunification with North Korea.
North and South Korea both dream of reunification, but since 1953 they've been fighting a bitter cold war. North Korea, wracked by starvation and strangled by ideology, has dug secret tunnels into South Korea; assassinated South Korean cabinet ministers; hijacked South Korean vessels (the crews usually commit mass suicide); and kidnapped numerous South Korean citizens (including Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's greatest 60's film director). South Korea, alarmed by its Northern brethren, keeps a tight lid on political movements, arresting thousands of students whom it views as socialist sympathizers and spending millions chasing down every real and perceived threat to its national security.
And here came an action movie that takes place against this volatile backdrop. To make matters worse, it gave a voice and a face to North Korean politics, humanizing the previously demonized. The last director to attempt this feat was imprisoned for treason in 1956.
Everyone predicted that Kang had a flop on his hands: a huge, highly anticipated, super-expensive flop.
Everyone was wrong...
People turned out in droves to see SHIRI. Quickly becoming
the most-watched movie in Korean history.
Within three weeks of its release, it had attracted more than one million viewers in Seoul, passing Im Kwon Taek's Sopyonje to become the highest-drawing Korean film in history. Only five weeks later, it would pass Titanic and become the first film ever to draw two million viewers in the capital. It would eventually attract close to two and a half million viewers in Seoul alone.
SHIRI beat every American and Korean movie at the box office -- it was a phenomenon the likes of which no one had ever seen. By the end of the year, one in seven Koreans had seen SHIRI. That's a ratio most American
producers can only dream of (it would mean a domestic US gross
of over $250 million).
SHIRI went on to be the first (and highest-priced)
Korean film sold to Japan, and one of the few Korean films to
be sold to Hong Kong.
The movie took number one at the box office
in both countries. Additionally, SHIRI launched a nation-wide
craze for the "kissing gurami", fish featured in the
film, and is now glowingly and repeatedly cited on South Korea's
National Intelligence Service page. Finally, not only did North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il request a stolen print be sent to him
for viewing, but the South Korean government arranged a free screening
of the movie for all foreign diplomats stationed in Korea.
some background on the film..
SHIRI is a big budget flick from Korea that rips into the conventions of the Hollywood action movie with glee, mixing throat-tightening romance with Teflon-hard action to create the kind of heartbreaking blockbuster that Hollywood long ago forgot how to make. It's not an art movie a la CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON, but a good old-fashioned action flick where the engine's maxed-out, the needle's in the red, and the characters stand to lose something much more than their lives.
Locked in a fragile détente with its famine-wracked, communist neighbor to the North, South Korea lives in a state of constant national emergency. It is policed by a task force of special agents whose personal lives have withered and died as they root out infiltrators and sleeper agents, rush from crisis to calamity, pursue rumors of war and chase terrorists who vanish like ghosts. One particular phantom, a female North Korean sniper named Hee, has led agents Ryu (Han Suk-Gyu) and Lee (Song Kang-Ho) through a nightmare of burnt corpses and bloody crime scenes for ten years before suddenly vanishing.
One year later she resurfaces, and with her comes a squad of North Korean commandos who have infiltrated Seoul and master-minded the theft of an experimental explosive.
A whirlwind of fear and paranoia engulfs the city as civilian targets are bombed and Agents Lee and Ryu chase an enemy who is always one charred and blackened step ahead of them. As Agent Lee is pulled in two directions by his fragile fiancée, Hyun, and the dead-eyed terrorist, Hee, the personal becomes the political and in the blink of an eye affairs of the political and in the blink of an eye affairs of the heart become affairs of state.
Good people and bad politics, ideals and extremism, suicide bombers and special agents, slam into one another like hyper-charged electrons in a particle accelerator, as SHIRI strips our nerves raw and sets our blood boiling. Whip smart and lightening fast, SHIRI gives more - more action, more romance, more style - Brains buzzing, hearts broken, nerves drained and spent.
About The Production -
Even before it opened SHIRI was a risk.
South Korean director Kang Je-Gyu's previous movie, a time traveling fantasy romance, was a hit but SHIRI had been rewritten twelve times.
The cast was loaded with stars and the female lead was fresh off a popular TV miniseries but the budget was the highest to date for a Korean movie (nearly $5 million), and principle sponsor Samsung was watching its performance closely. And, of course, the biggest risk of all was
the topic:
SHIRI is about reunification with North Korea.
North and South Korea both dream of reunification, but since 1953 they've been fighting a bitter cold war. North Korea, wracked by starvation and strangled by ideology, has dug secret tunnels into South Korea; assassinated South Korean cabinet ministers; hijacked South Korean vessels (the crews usually commit mass suicide); and kidnapped numerous South Korean citizens (including Shin Sang-Ok, Korea's greatest 60's film director). South Korea, alarmed by its Northern brethren, keeps a tight lid on political movements, arresting thousands of students whom it views as socialist sympathizers and spending millions chasing down every real and perceived threat to its national security.
And here came an action movie that takes place against this volatile backdrop. To make matters worse, it gave a voice and a face to North Korean politics, humanizing the previously demonized. The last director to attempt this feat was imprisoned for treason in 1956.
Everyone predicted that Kang had a flop on his hands: a huge, highly anticipated, super-expensive flop.
Everyone was wrong...
People turned out in droves to see SHIRI. Quickly becoming
the most-watched movie in Korean history.
Within three weeks of its release, it had attracted more than one million viewers in Seoul, passing Im Kwon Taek's Sopyonje to become the highest-drawing Korean film in history. Only five weeks later, it would pass Titanic and become the first film ever to draw two million viewers in the capital. It would eventually attract close to two and a half million viewers in Seoul alone.
SHIRI beat every American and Korean movie at the box office -- it was a phenomenon the likes of which no one had ever seen. By the end of the year, one in seven Koreans had seen SHIRI. That's a ratio most American
producers can only dream of (it would mean a domestic US gross
of over $250 million).
SHIRI went on to be the first (and highest-priced)
Korean film sold to Japan, and one of the few Korean films to
be sold to Hong Kong.
The movie took number one at the box office
in both countries. Additionally, SHIRI launched a nation-wide
craze for the "kissing gurami", fish featured in the
film, and is now glowingly and repeatedly cited on South Korea's
National Intelligence Service page. Finally, not only did North
Korean leader Kim Jong Il request a stolen print be sent to him
for viewing, but the South Korean government arranged a free screening
of the movie for all foreign diplomats stationed in Korea.
03-24-05, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by dyerjp
yesasia does do r2 dvds. while shiri was entertaining, there are much better films from korea than this.
The easiest way to get Korean films to Europe is to get HK made versions, which is mostly R0 and with both English and Chinese subtitles, while direct Korean imports have a fair mix of R0 & R3 (and some which supports R1 & R3). Of cos, always check before buying.
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Originally Posted by dyerjp
as i said earlier, yes they do have r2 dvds. zoosh is right about the r2jp dvds typically not having english subs, but they are out there.
i supposed R2 european prints of korean films are quite limited as there is only a few labels that carry them - Tartan Asian Extreme from UK (who produces R1 counterparts as well), Hong Kong Legends (from Netherlands or UK? I'm confused), and Universal Studio Nordia (with the 4 Scandinavian Languages, often with english subs as well).
comparatively the French & German counterparts often do not include the english subs, but for this point i got to return to check on my database.
