Okay, so Criterion hasn't actually announced their releases for January 2016 yet, but it appears that blu-ray.com has found evidence that this might be spine #791 in the collection (the producer's name also has a phantom page on the Criterion official website - cast and crew members usually show up on the website with their own page right before the film is announced). www.criterionforum.org also has it up as spine #791. Here's hoping!
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This is great news because I've never seen this cult classic in a good print.
shareThe Arrow region B blu ray looks really good. But the Criterion will have a newer 2K scan so it will look even better! Great films (including Vengeance) that need to be seen to be believed.
shareThe Criterion DVD and Blu-Ray box sets are to be released January 5th, 2016, in Three days!!! Woohoo!
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/1154-the-complete-lady-snowblood
I have the Criterion Bluray, it's light on bonus features but, it has both films and, it looks pretty great for the most part.
My copy of the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray release just came in, and watched both movies this afternoon. The restoration is fantastic.
shareReview and 38 HD screenshots: http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Complete-Lady-Snowblood-Blu-ray/142689/
These films were initially released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video in the UK. Both were sourced from dated masters and while they looked rather good it was easy to see various inconsistencies and source limitations. On this upcoming release the films look notably healthy and a lot fresher. This is hardly surprising, however, as both are sourced from new 2K restorations. In terms of detail and depth the improvements are quite dramatic; fluidity is also substantially better. Contrast and brightness are also better balanced. In fact, there are segments with some pretty substantial improvements. The most dramatic changes, however, are in the area of color reproduction. There are entirely new color identities (and nuances) that change the atmosphere of select sequences and as a result the viewing experience is different. You can see what type of improvements are made if you compare screencaptures #4, 15, and 24 and screencaptures #8, 1, and 17 from our review of the Region-B release. Overall image stability is excellent. My one and only minor criticism pertains to the very light crushing that pops up during some of the darker footage. It is not distracting, but it could have been avoided. My score is 4.75/5.00. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).share