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Pre-Release Rental VHS Uncut Version

posted 9 years ago by hostagejoseph
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Does anyone remember the old days at rental stores such as Blockbuster. I have read elsewhere that someone who used to rent Streamline Dubbed Hokuto no Ken Movie on Orion pre-release VHS rental copy remember gore scenes uncensored with no blurring or filter. If you guys do have it, can you post screenshots of uncut gore footage that have no blurs, please? I have also wanted to know if any collector has Streamline's 35mm Print of Fist of the North Star Movie uncut. Many fans still believe that 35mm prints were destroyed in the fire and the Italian VHS version is the closest they'll ever see. Do you guys remember anything? Let me know.

The Japanese HD version with frame-rates of Jagi's death scene is a little faster than the scene during the Orion anime previews. Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2FUoVJPnBw

[–] TalesfromTheCryptfan 9 years ago

Yes i do remember that and they got the footage on youtube including Galf crushing that guy's head.

"Let off some steam bennet"-Commando.

[–] drakeyequation 9 years ago

The Italian VHS is the ONLY known version of the movie that is uncensored. If someone tells you they watched an uncensored English version, they're lying or imagining things.

[–] bcamphome 9 years ago

Or misremembering. Which is not quite as egregious as what you're suggesting. I could swear that the copy I rented in 1994 or '95 was much gorier than the copy I later bought, which should be the exact same VHS edition from Streamline/Orion that I rented. But I can't prove it. Maybe I embellished it in my mind somewhat.

[–] hostagejoseph 9 years ago

Here:

http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire2/b3e4111b20a2d00bf885489eb05d63541430435865_full.jpg

http://img1.ak.crunchyroll.com/i/spire2/a9823016231c2ab7629eeec7a00426d21430435886_full.jpg

The rental VHS versions from rental stores like Hollywood Video and Blockbuster that have a barcode of 1000311 are uncensored with no color fading or monochrome filter on all gore scenes and retail versions with the barcode of 90263 are censored. The guy who used to work at rental video stores remember scenes uncut and gory without rainbow blurring or filter. Does anybody have a rental VHS copy like this? If so, do you remember scenes being more gory and more uncut without any filter?