Horrors of Malformed Men & Orgies Of Edo Blu-ray from Arrow

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Coming in September. Here are the special features:

• Brand new 2K restoration of the film from the original negative
• High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
• Uncompressed mono 1.0 PCM audio
• Newly translated optional English subtitles
• Two audio commentaries by Japanese cinema experts Tom Mes and Mark Schilling
• Malformed Movies: a new video interview with Toei exploitation movie screenwriter Masahiro Kakefuda
• Malformed Memories: Filmmakers Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo the Iron Man) and Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler) on the career of director Teruo Ishii
• Ishii in Italia: Ishii and Mark Schilling visit the Far East Film Festival
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Dan Mumford
• FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector's booklet featuring new writing by Jasper Sharp, Tom Mes and Grady Hendrix

[Takuma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Takuma]

Holy shit!

Seen the film three times in 35mm and own the Synapse DVD. Certainly getting this too! Amazing film!

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[AngelGuts Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close AngelGuts]

Overjoyed by this news.

The recently released CD score is great, too.

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Ian, just noticed your 47,686 post count. Respect through the fuckin roof! (and beyond)

Haha, I don't get out much.

[mjeon Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mjeon]

This is delightful news.

I generally find Tim Lucas enlightening, but his criticism of the ending of this film has puzzled me. The ending is beautiful; and indeed the film ends the only way it could end.

[47lab Guest Find all posts View Profile Close 47lab]

I recently asked if Mark schilling still does audio commentaries and this answers my question. As usual for Arrow's Japanese titles, yet another shitty ass cover.

[Derrick King Waterfall Puncher Find all posts View Profile Close Derrick King]

I think the Mark Shilling commentary is from the Synapse DVD.

[47lab Guest Find all posts View Profile Close 47lab]

I didn't realize all the extras are rehashed from the synapse DVD. I used to have it a long time ago but traded it away.

[Darcy Parker Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Darcy Parker]

The art isn't completely terrible, it just doesn't seem to be too tied to the film.

[Zaibatan Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zaibatan]

It's very much tied to the film. That's an artist's rendering of Tatsumi Hijikata dancing in front of the ocean on the cover.

[Takuma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Takuma]

I didn't realize all the extras are rehashed from the synapse DVD.

Not all. The Masahiro Kakefuda interview (which alone justifies the purchase for me) and Tom Mes commentary are new.

I used to have it a long time ago but traded it away.

Why on earth would you trade away such and amazing film on such a terrific DVD?

[ropo1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close ropo1]

Indeed!

Tied to the film or not (the artwork just doesn't echo the period and time the film was made in imo), hopefully there's a reversable sleeve

Usually don't double-dip but here's a why not DD release

[Zaibatan Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Zaibatan]

hopefully there's a reversable sleeve

Arrow always have the original poster artwork on the reverse side. It's already shown on their website: