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Where can I find ORIGINAL, reg. 3 DVDs of all of the Godzilla films ??


Where can a brutha find ORIGINAL, GENUINE, FACTORY-PRESSED and STUDIO-ISSUED Godzilla DVDs???

I know Toho released a 3-disc uber-edition of Final Wars without subtitles.
And YesAsia.com has nearly all of Godzilla's movie in region 3/PAL format with subtitles, but they're all about $50 or higher.

And then there's all the ebya guys professing to sell "genuine Japanese versions" of the flicks, but they say that they are all-region and NTSC with subtitles.
That just doesn't seem right to me.
That spells either bootlegg, DVD-R or a direct DVD copy (menus, special features and all).

Which would be OK, but I have an all-region player and so I don't like to get bootlegs if it's not necessary.

Can someone throw me a link or direct me to a site that offers the REAL deal?
(region 2 or 3/PAL/subtitled/uncut, Toho-issued/approved Japanese versions) of the Godzilla catalogue????

So far my rare G-DVD collection runs as followed:
- Godzilla/Gojira 1954 (it's a region 4 DVD with both the UNCUT Japanese version, subtitled, and the crappy, edited, US version with Raymond Burr inserts)
- Godzilla vs Hedorah (an all-region, NTSC DVD from Taiwan that offers both subtitled and dubbed versions of the film)
- Godzilla: Final Wars (4-disc set from www.videodaikaiju.com- a perfect example of not getting a bootleg unless it was necessary; I didn't know when it was gonna get released in the US so I bought this bootleg that videodiakaiju subtitled themselves and also has a copy of the unsubtitled Japanese bonus discs with the movie soundtrack rounding out the 4th disc).
- King Kong vs. Godzilla (the new reissue that came with King Kong Escapes.

And then I've got all the new millenium G-flicks on VCD (except for Final Wars and Tokyo SOS which I have on copied- but professionally done- DVD.

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There are no official region3 dvds. go to this site www.tokyomonsters.com and it will tell you that there are region 1 (America/Canada. nearly all godzilla films, mostly dubbed not as great pciture) region 2 (Japan/Europe, all films in Japan region2 ntsc format, best picture, sound but some were not done to their best ability, the full uncut versions of most the earleir films, and the Final Box :P. The Region 3 section is only bootleged stuff from China Korea, bad picture bad sound cheap releases and then region 0 just as bad as the region 3's. Sorry if I sound a bit annoyed but there are only cheap shody releases in region 3. If you want you could try asking the reviewer or webmaster of tokyomonsters the best place to buy them. I would get the final box as you can get the subtitles and burn your own copy of the film to a dvd r and watch them as they were meant to be seen.

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"There are no official region3 dvds."

There are now. "The Return of Godzilla" to "Godzilla X Mechagodzilla" (2002) is now released on DVD and VCD uncut and with English subtitles from Universe. Godzilla Final Wars was also released in HK but without subtitles. I do not know whatever became of "Godzilla X Mothra X Mechagodzilla: Tokyo SOS" in HK.

It’s ironic that in this age of “tolerance” we are the most afraid of offending people.

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