Can anyone help me find this moive's DVD version?
Wang, Julie
Hi colleagues,
We have a video tape, Nagisa Oshima’s Cruel Story of Youth ( another translation: Naked woman or Naked youth). It listed as a reserve copy, and it’s damaged, unplayable. Amazon lists a VHS version available from several third party vendors, however, our policy is no longer buy VHS. Amazon UK has DVD but its region code is 2 (PAL). I’m wondering if anyone knows a place that we can buy a DVD with English subtitle for all region? I doubt if a DVD version has ever been produced/distributed for North America? Hope I’m wrong.
Thank you for your time and help in advance!
Julie
Xi Chen
Have you asked your AV dept if they use multi-region DVD player? It can play both PAL and NTSC videos regardless what regions they are.
This is our case at Oberlin .
Xi
Wang, Julie
Xi,
Thanks for your quick reply. We have a multi-region DVD player, but no one likes to use it since it’s so importable. It would be our last choice though. _Julie
Ayako Yoshimura
I just checked, but I did not find a DVD with English subtitle for all region, either.
But I cannot say that I am an expert, so hopefully someone else can help!
Ayako Yoshimura
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Ayako Yoshimura
Japanese Studies Collection Assistant
412G Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706-1494
Phone: 608-890-2986
Email: ayosh...@library.wisc.edu
Sharon Domier
I tried as well and didn't find one. I bet one will be coming out from Criterion in the next year or two (although I can't find anything on their website). Donald Richie is working with them to release most of the great Japanese films on DVD.
All I have are the VHS tapes in my collection.
Sharon
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I just checked, but I did not find a DVD with English subtitle for all region, either.
But I cannot say that I am an expert, so hopefully someone else can help!
Ayako Yoshimura
Japanese Studies Collection Assistant
412G Memorial Library
University of Wisconsin-Madison
728 State Street
Madison, WI 53706-1494
Phone: 608-890-2986
Email: ayosh...@library.wisc.edu
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From: "Wang, Julie" <jw...@binghamton.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009 3:38 pm
Subject: [small ea coll] Re: Can anyone help me find this moive's DVD version?
To: Xi Chen <xi....@oberlin.edu>
Cc: Smalleacollections <smalleaco...@googlegroups.com>
> Xi,
> Thanks for your quick reply. We have a multi-region DVD player, but no
>
> From: smalleaco...@googlegroups.com
> [mailto:smalleaco...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Xi Chen
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 4:30 PM
> To: Wang, Julie
> Cc: Smalleacollections
> Subject: [small ea coll] Re: Can anyone help me find this moive's DVD
> version?
>
> Hi Julie,
> Have you asked your AV dept if they use multi-region DVD player? It
> can play both PAL and NTSC videos regardless what regions they are.
>
> This is our case at Oberlin .
>
> Xi
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Wang, Julie <jw...@binghamton.edu> wrote:
> Hi colleagues,
> for all region? I doubt if a DVD version has ever been
Erminia Chao
I have played many PAL DVDs on my work and personal computers before and never have problem. Nowadays, DVD players in all computers are religion free. Giving the fact that almost everybody has a computer or has access to one easier. If it is not too expensive to get it from Amazon UK, it is worth the cost until a NTSC format is available. Definitely easier to use than a multi-region DVD player.
Erminia
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Erminia Chao
Asian Languages Cataloger
HBLL 6733
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
801-422-5663
Email: Ermini...@byu.edu
Wang, Julie
Thank you all so much for your help and advice. Eriminia's input is very promising (I hardly use my DVD player on my pc). If students can play DVD via computer regardless region code, then I'd feel more comfortable to buy a region 2 DVD instead of VHS. I'm also glad to hear from Sharon that Donald is working with Japanese expert/vendor to reformat some classic Japanese movies. There is definitely a demand around teaching institutes.
Have a nice weekend,
Julie
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Sharon Domier
Computers that have DVD players in them come with their region code set to blank, so that they can be shipped anywhere. The players are set up to change their region code up to a total of 5 times before it becomes permanent.
So the first time you put in a DVD it asks you if you want to set the region encoding to 1. Then the next time you put in a Region 2, it will say it is currently set to 1 do you want to change it to 2. And so on. I can't tell you how many students I know who don't realize what is going on and their laptops get stuck in Region 3 or whatever the fifth change was.
There is software that sits on top of the DVD player and pretends it is sending the same region code to the player. DVD Region CSS and others do this. That is what we are using at Amherst College. Smith College just has all their public machines set to re-image everyday so it knocks out the problem.
Macintoshes - especially the Matshita drives are less forgiving.
It took me a while to convince my library to buy a couple of region free or multi-region players for our media center. But they are definitely glad they have them now and they get a lot of use.
Sharon