New arrival from Japan. Never been opened before.

After waiting forever for a BD or a 4K release (that was teased.... 2 years ago?), I decided to go Kuraray Extended SuperNTSC Widescreen THX AC3 on The Abyss.

=> Abyss, The: Extended Version (1989) [0896885]

Last viewing was probably 20+ years ago!

Julien

THE KEEP, arrived from Japan destined for my player.
Full screen .....

So glad to view this again ! ! !

Two discs arrived. First up is the AC3 version of Patlabor. I have no urgent need for it except that I've had the AC3 version of Patlabor 2 for years and it bugged me not having both. I've been looking for a sensibly priced copy for a couple of years now and finally got one. No point paying over the odds when the Blu Ray box set is the definitive edition.



Next up is Vugeihihdibidjdjnmmmmzvxvjkkdk.

This is not on LDDB and I would like to add it to the database. Can anyone translate the title please?

Bought it on a whim as it looks super cute.

キキとララの青い鳥

kiki and lala blue bird

Feel free to complete what's missing (just added it): Kiki and Lala's Blue Bird (1989) [TOL?-????]

Julien

Thanks both! I'll finish the entry today. Does anyone know more about it?

That's done now. I've updated the entry with as much information as I can give.

As for the disc, it's really nice. The audio quality is superb. Nice and loud and clear. Image quality is excellent. I'd be curious to know the source used as it looks theatrical, burn marks etc are present. Yet it's a 4:3 ratio.

The left side of the picture looks oddly framed too, like it's been masked off or something. It's not horrendous or anything, I just found I kept looking at the bottom left of the screen for some reason.

Hopefully I can capture the disc and find some subtitles as it looks really fun and I know of some mini people that may enjoy this film.

Side note: This is the only film I've ever seen that features a talking loaf of bread who is also a superhero. The closest thing I've ever heard of is a piece of toast that plays the saxophone in 1970's 'adult art film' Night Dreams.

This beauty is back in my collection.

I was busy yesterday when I posted, used google translate and hand wrote the characters in.
These oddball cutesy animes are cool but they are just oddball.
Sometimes translated in America for super young kids, I've never heard of it but if it was the right price I would have bought it.

As for image I've read about the open matte releases having their one edge cut off but when its matted you lose on the top and bottom but gain on that one
side.
I remember owning Evil Dead II and comparing the two LDs, wide and open matte and it was true but I don't know if its on all open matte releases just neat.

Second slowboat package.

When teddanson asked, "Can anyone translate the title please?"

The reply from rein-o was, "kiki and lala blue bird".

However the entry went in as, "Kiki and Lala's Blue Bird".

They aren't the same.

Well sorry to bash but you're getting a little too nitpicky.

The title in Japanese is: キキとララの青い鳥
Characters for キ is spoken in English as KI character for ラ is spoken in English as LA

Thus KIKI LALA but when you search this title in Japanese its as LALA but when you search Kiki and Lala it comes up as Lara.
Thus changing the name from LALA to LARA so which is truly correct. It should be LALA as that's how it would be pronounced in
Japanese.


I think Kiki and Lala's blue bird may not even be correct as you have the の character and also the い but that い is in between
the Kanji so what does that make out???

Also I found another title for this as KIKI and LALA the blue bird of happiness so which is the real title???

I don't remember much of my Japanese reading from years ago but its not an easy thing to say the least but it comes out as
Kiki and Lara's blue bird in Japanese google translation.

I don't mean to be picky, but it just looks wrong to me.

Looking at the picture you sent, it appears the Kiki & Lala parts are separated from the rest of the characters on the cover and the OBI. They're smaller and that makes me think the intent is "Kiki & Lala" are like a brand. Similar to having a Pokemon logo as a brand.

Perhaps the movie/episode is called simply "The Bluebird" or "The Bluebird of Happiness".

Of course, I noticed there's another laserdisc entitled "Kiki's Delivery Service" in English, so I could be totally wrong.

The い in 青い鳥 is making an adjective out of 青.

青 = "ao", blue
青い = "aoi", blue as an adjective
鳥 = "tori", bird
青い鳥 = "aoi tori", lit. "blue bird," jisho.org more specifically defines it as "bluebird of happiness"


Different Kiki.


You can tell from the の at the end of the first part of the title that the two parts are connected: キキとララの is incomplete by itself. の "no" is a possessive particle here, so "Kiki and Lala's Blue Bird" checks out.

Anyway, when in doubt I just check what names Anime News Network's encyclopedia has for a given title: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1789

In Japanese they will chain as many の together as they need to describe something. If I were going for a US name I’d say it was Kiki and Lala’s Bluebird of Happiness or probably better Kiki and Lala in Bluebird of Happiness.

Kiki and Lala are Sanrio kids so this is not their first appearance, although probably it was the first in a movie/OVA. It should have a name like “Mickey Mouse and the Castle of Illusion” or something.

The best thing above all else is that it features a talking loaf of bread who is a superhero. Never forget that.

I got Devil's Advocate today. Amazed it arrived safely considering it was shipped in a supermarket bag.

As you can see it has the legal warning message sticker on the front about the statue. I thought it may be a late release after the court case thing and have scenes removed as well as the digital censoring of the statue.

Span the discs tonight and checked over all the scenes. It's all 100% intact. Saved a fortune over the ridiculous DVD prices and got a juicy AC3 track to boot!

Very happy to have it uncensored, seeing as it will likely never be released this way again.



If you want to learn more, click below:

https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4057

Noel's Fantastic Trip (1983) [AH007-2510]
This one is trippyer, should be able to find a copy cheap, I think I picked up my copy for 10 plus shipping but it does have some slight rot
but well worth it, watched it a few times.

I love it.