Believe it or not, this film is coming out on Criterion's Eclipse label on November 20, 2012.
The four-disc set, When Horror Came to Shochiku, retails for $59.95. Like all Eclipse box sets, it's DVD only, no extras.
The films are The X From Outer Space; Goke, Body Snatcher From Hell; The Living Skeleton; Genocide. The original Japanese versions.
Someone at Criterion has a sense of humor.
Trailer for “The X From Outer Space” [so sorry: Japanese, no Engrish subs!]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpdpPdoQpDw
this is an excellent box set. one of my favorite of the eclipse series right next to up all night w r downey sr.
shareThe aspect ratio is wrong for this movie. Looks like they didn't crop the raw scan horizontally. Check out the shot of Earth at 11:03, which is definitely not a circle.
If Criterion doesn't replace this defective version, you can create a watchable version by ripping to mkv, then remuxing with mkvtoolnix, setting the display width to something like 920 instead of 853.
If you say so. I seriously doubt Criterion is going to fix this alleged defect.
Speaking of defects, your post came up twice so you might want to delete the second one.
The aspect ratio is wrong for this movie. Looks like they didn't crop the raw scan horizontally. Check out the shot of Earth at 11:03, which is definitely not a circle.
If Criterion doesn't replace this defective version, you can create a watchable version by ripping to mkv, then remuxing with mkvtoolnix, setting the display width to something like 920 instead of 853.
Anyone notice the typo in the subtitled version? Near the end, when the planes arrive to blast Guillala with that radioactive stuff, one of the characters says "They're they are!"
Is this on the Criterion version, or some other? I actually think I may have seen that typo, but it's been almost four years since I've watched the movie and may be confusing it with something else.
Of course, considering the vast number of misspellings, bad punctuation, misplaced apostrophes and the multitude of other spelling and grammatical mistakes on IMDb, many users here wouldn't know the difference!
It was on Turner Classic Movies recently. It had the Criterion logo at the beginning of the film, so I'm assuming it's the same version they put out on home video.
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