Posted by Derek Janssen on 11/19/06 23:18

8-Bit Star wrote:
> Invid Fan wrote:
>
>>I wonder how all this affects Destroy All Monsters. Remember, Toho
>>wouldn't let ADV include subs, or the original dub iirc. Wonder if
>>they'll do another release, or if the rights are expiring soon.
>
> That's weird. Why would Toho not allow ADV to include those things?
> After all, the Madman R4 release includes the Japanese track...

Same reason for that bare-bones "Princess Mononoke" that got everyone upset:
DVD's hadn't grabbed hold in Japan yet in '99-'00, but Toho didn't want
every other country to make good looking foreign-region versions of
their own movies, and have all their customers import the "gaijin" disk
before they could sell their own native product.
So, back then, Toho had to hobble the foreign "Destroy" with no
chapters, menu, subs, or restored print.

Which's one of the same reasons it's taken Sony this long to do the
vintage GZ's--
Except for the new-series movies, which were already guaranteed good
Tokyo-side releases long before they got to the US, so Sony could do
whatever it liked.

Derek Janssen (I take it that Toho is now safely doing its own R2's?)
ejanss@comcast.net

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