Almost at the end of my fourth year collecting late release movies on laserdisc.
I'm recording what I obtained in 2015 a little early this year as I don't have much time off towards the end part of the year so thought I'd do it now.

I've been documenting the late release movies I gathered year by year so far:

My late release movies I got in 2012....

My late release movies I got in 2013....

My late release movies I got in 2014....

Overall 2015 was a low key year for me as far as late release laserdiscs were concerned. No massive laserdisc scores but still a few interesting titles that were on my wishlist for sometime. Healthwise I hadn't been that well this year - I became gluten and lactose intolerant (and also intolerant of a few other foodstuffs) almost overnight in March but wasn't properly diagnosed for a further 6 months so was in a lot of pain for most of the year as I initially had no clue what was wrong. Prior to this I could have eaten almost anything and frequently did! Many of the symptoms that I experienced bore a striking resemblance to much more serious ailments which proved not to be the case thankfully. Laserdisc purchasing was therefore put on hold for a large part of the year as I focused on my health. I lost over 13kg in weight in the last 4 months alone when I changed my diet to food that my body can actually tolerate so I am still in semi recovery mode at the moment.

I did still manage to add a few more PILF-28xx titles to my collection including the last volume of Columbo Columbo: vol.8 (1973-78) [PILF-2825] and a sealed copy of the Star Wars trilogy Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition (1997) [PILF-2860]. It was also great to get the final volume of X-Files X-Files: 7th Season vol.4 (2000) [PILF-2855] to complete that boxset. I guess the rarest one though below is probably Il Ciclone (1996) [PILF-2827] which until now no one else had added to LDDB.com. I also have a spare of that one if anyone wants to trade for other PILF-28xx titles I am still missing.



I picked up a few other late release Japan laserdiscs:



Including a few that aren't in English:



Most of the titles I got this year though were US titles.
First some US versions of laserdiscs I already own on Japanese imports:





Then some more general US releases (many of which are only available on US laserdisc):











A few PAL releases including the last laserdisc released in France in 2000 Enemy of the State.
I also bought the French version of Freeway as it has a totally different cover to the US edition.



A few late release comedy horrors such as Street Trash and Body Melt:



Some late laserdisc release re-issues of older movies including one of my all time personal favourites Theatre of Blood:





Finally a few US comedies:







I'll probably spend one more year focusing on late release movies to plug any remaining gaps. I accept it may not be possible to find certain titles within an affordable range but there are plenty of inexpensive ones I'd still love to add to my collection.

Released 2000 both.

Flowing (Nagareru) (1956) [TLL 2570]

Meshi (1951) [TLL 2569]
R.I.P. Setsuko Hara

Nice there Cold_sleeper! Not often you see Naruse on Laserdisc.

And good work Laserdisc_fan.

I love this thread. The pictures are great, and much appreciated. Takes me back to the 90s...

A lot of great pick ups this year laserdisc_fan (glad I was able to help with a couple of them )
I hope you have some good luck in 2016, for the rest of the PILF 28s you need to complete the set

I'm sorry about your illness. I am still fighting against my acid reflux and being a singer in a rock band that it is the worst disease ever.
I will have to chance my diet soon...
I wish I was more helpful as far as late release is concerned but I didn't know those titles were so tough to find.
I am still searching for them though...

I have the gluten intolerance as well (I consider myself as a veteran for 27 years), so I know what you have been/are going through. The good thing is that when your health stabilizes, gluten and lactose are no longer a part of your diet, you will be symptom free and regain the loss of energy you've had.
Good luck in the coming year, laserdisc_fan.

Yes it's probably a blessing in disguise.
I'm age 45 and had been gaining weight at a rate of about 1kg per year since I was 30.
It wasn't that I was over eating. It seems almost anything caused me to feel full up.

This was of course due to all the high starch foods I was eating like bread, pototoes, rice
and other wheat based products on a daily basis.

In March my symptoms dramatically changed.
I had excruciating pain in my stomach & abdomen and really bad acid reflux.
I could barely sleep at night as the pain never went away.
I was put on medication which made things dramatically worse as it caused internal bleeding
which I then had to take anti-biotics for.
The rebound symptoms from coming off the medication then kicked in and the pain was twice as bad!
I was subjected to kidney stone tests, cancer tests and multitude of other tests.
At no point did any doctor suggest that I was gluten intolerant even after 6 months.

So I decided to research the symptoms online myself. This is ultimately what made
me conclude I was gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant and also intolerant of cabbage
and other similiar vegetables that are high in iron and difficult to digest.
Within 2 days of phasing these completely out of my diet I felt better so I knew I was onto something.
Within 2 weeks the stomach pains were completely gone.
Within 6 weeks the abdominal pains were completely gone.
Within 2 months the acid reflux was almost gone as well.
I haven't needed any medication (not even a humble indigestion tablet) since changing my diet.

The diet was very simple too - for the most part eat all natural food that isn't processed.
Loads of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables that are low in starch.
Natural yoghurt and cheese and almond milk instead of dairy milk as they contain no lactose.
Same proteins as before in the form of Salmon, tuna, prawns, poultry and some red meat.
Also eggs and beans are a good source of protein.
Eat lots of oats for carbohydrates.
Learning how to bake many items from flours that don't contain gluten such as almond flour, coconut flour
to add variety to my diet and provide healthy substitutes for conventional bread and biscuits.

So far I am loving this new diet.
I don't miss any of the things that caused me so much pain and the new things I'm trying are
great fun and interesting. I aim to try 2 new foods every week. It's a slow process though checking
what is safe/unsafe and I generally am very wary of any processed foods as nearly everything contains
wheat in some form.

As I'm on a textbook scientific diet for what you should be eating all the weight I had gained over the
last 15 years was lost in just 4 months. I'm now back down to the weight I was in my teens
and didn't do any exercise at all to achieve this weight loss. It's true weight loss is about
90% diet, 10% exercise. It is far more sustainable if you simple tweak your diet and then stick to this healthier diet permanently which is exactly what I will be doing.

I think your previous years were more impressive. That is of course natural, each year the wish list gets narrower and hopefully at the end, you don't have anything else to buy. Nevertheless this is an impressive list. My criticism is due knowing what you already have from previous years and duplicates:) But you know it, I know it, collecting is a bug doesn't go away easily. Once you have them all, you will look for other things. Your health is the most important indeed. I am glad you are taking necessary actions and already improving.

There are very few in this community with such grande collection with a lot of valuables. Among those, only you make contributions showing your collection and sharing information. Thanks for that. I would be interested in a separate thread where you explain how you organize your collection. For example, do you have them in alphabetic or per year?

Oh btw, I was pretty big in bodybuilding in my mid, high school and college years. I read plenty of nutrition and dieting books. Just watch out for the diary and excessive carbs as in sweet fruits high in sugar, they boost estrogen levels which isn't good for your testis!

Yes the early years were unquestionably the most productive.
The ones that remain to be found are either the super expensive ones or the ones no one else bothered to collect.

You're right if I posted details of the duplicates it would almost look like all those other posts year by year joined together!

I was a late comer to laserdisc only starting in 2006 so I'm very pleased with what I've managed to gather given time was not on my side.

What spurred me to document so much about the music titles in particular was that there was so little information out there when I began. Many were not much more than a rumour as no pictures of covers could be found anywhere and often no entry even existed in LDDB.com. I've noticed many of my photos cropping up on music sites referencing the laserdisc releases to confirm they actually do exist now. Even wikipedia has been updated in some instances! I've still a long way to go because for every movie in my collection I have about 10 music LDs but at least it was a start and should make it easier for anyone wishing to locate specific titles to identify them by cover and not just catalogue number. I had no such luxury when I started.

Too much of anything isn't good for you and that goes for all foods & drinks. Even eating one too many bananas a day can lead to an unhealthy buildup of potassium in your body over a prolonged period of time. Many other examples with things like milk or nuts.

One thing that shocked me was how long it took to rid my body of all that gluten that was literally poison inside me. There were so many other unusual side effects from tingling in my fingers, agonising backpain, sore gums, ear pain, nausea and feeling feverish - unbelievable how many things were affected until it was all gone. No one else in my family or even friends that I am aware of is gluten intolerant so they probably thought I was a hypochondriac but the symptoms were 100% real and totally debilitating. Up until this year I had never needed to visit a doctor in my life. Outwardly I appeared very healthy and even blood tests showed no abnormalities.

Kurt Cobain is known to have suffered from very bad Irritable Bowel Symptom (IBS) and the most common cause for that is now known to be food intolerances. It's often been stated it was a major contributory factor to his suicide - he even mentions the stomach pains he was going through in his final suicide note. Back in the early 90's there wasn't anywhere near as much information known about IBS as there is today and the internet would not have had the wealth of information to tap into that I was able to find so quickly. Who knows he may still have been alive if he had been able to access the very same information as me but I totally believe the pain he was going through. One thing Kurt mentions is that he doubted the effectiveness of many gastro/intestinal doctors in what they recommended and regarded them as a scam:
There is a youtube video where he mentions this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYlmulYxYyE

Having been led on a wild goose chase myself by many doctors for 6 months I fully endorse his point of view!
Their proposed solution was always the same - try this 'new drug' when no drugs were required at all, just a simple change of diet.

Thanks for your updates, in many instances it is the only chance I will get to actually see what the LD covers on many titles look like so thanks again.



So sorry to hear this - not fun. My dear wife has had ongoing problems for quite a few years & the ibs thing really is debilitating at times. Also the drug thing & more to the point the "new drug" thing I fully get the point. Procedures & drugs may be appropriate for some but, as you have alluded to, often slowing things down & making some changes (not always easy but in most cases can be done) are the best medicine. It has been quite horrendous to watch her go through so much for so long & she herself was the one that eventually got herself sorted out, not perfect but so much better now. I do not want to criticise doctors or medical professionals but it often takes persistence before you find one who gets it that the medication route is not the only option. A slow process but things are improving.

I really hope you feel more like yourself soon.

Take care & good luck filling some more of your (few remaining?!?) LD gaps in 2016 !!!

I think we should have a "health and fitness" section in this forum to discuss our health issues and give each other positive motivation towards well living. I am sure many members here are multi-talented and well knowledge in many other things than LDs, at the end this would make us a better community.