Kurosawa's Japan Revisited
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Fuck you then. I'll go to the pirate bay and find one. Oh that domain name's gone now? I'll try another. Oh look 3 results. What about demonoid? 39 results.
Not only did they restore it, there are extras like a commentary track, documentaries on Kurosawa and Ikiru itself, and some writings. Yeah the streaming wasn't as convenient as one would like but we should support the Criterion Collection, which goes all out for its films and restores unappreciated masterpieces. It's a much better experience than watching a horrible compressed-to-hell encode by YIFY with inaudible audio.
From this new link's help pages:
> 20. Are Criterion’s Blu-ray discs region-encoded?
> Yes. Criterion is licensed to sell most of its editions only in North America.
> 4. Can my order be shipped outside the United States?
> We only ship our DVDs in the United States and to Canada.
Fuck them again and fuck you specifically, cooper12.
I would try Amazon but my first 3 points still stand for them.
As for our friend YIFY, do you wonder what kind of "magic" they do to fit feature-length films into 700MB? Most importantly they completely starve the bitrate so nothing looks as good as it could. Then they use a whole variety of filters to change the film from how it originally looked so it will compress better like denoising or color changes. Not to mention other atrocities such as changing the aspect ratio, downscaling, low bitrate audio, or even cutting out parts like intros and credits. You're only impressed with it because you haven't seen what you're missing.
And thanks for the personal attack, In the future I'll make sure not to write well-meaning comments to someone who had trouble with a specific method of watching something. Excuse me, I gotta get back to sending cease-and-desists letters and meeting my shill quota for the day.
Let me get this straight. YIFY isn't allowed to filter video but Criteron are? Also I'm not surprised you've got a bad impression of ripped video if you're still downloading 1CD files. Don't try and 1-up me on the topic of video encoding. I have never seen YIFY cut credits. I will admit that there is one time where I have seen them make a mistake. Wreck-It Ralph: the audio on the credits cuts out a few minutes before the end.
You shouldn't have posted a link to a shit website that doesn't ship internationally if you didn't want to be insulted.
I always wonder why a company would do that. "Oh, you are not in America? Well fuck you, we don't want your money."
Broad brushes like these are usually dangerous to paint with. Japan has it's xenophobic streaks but is also one of the most cosmopolitan cultures around. For similar reasons, lines like the following in the article piqued my annoyance as well:
how very un-Japanese it seemed: in the broadness of its satire, in the zaniness of its switches from one genre to another, in the almost violent simplicity of its message and story
Author's certainly entitled to his own reaction but I don't find these traits uncommon in Japanese cinema (and literature). I'm not contesting the whole 'Kurosawa is the least Japanese of Japanese directors' trope but that reputation was largely earned for his later career. Imho Kurosawa in the 50's was as Japanese as anyone, and that's especially true with Ikiru, a film that fits perfectly alongside the better contemporary efforts from directors like Kinoshita and Ichikawa.