EDIT: sorry guys, sources assure us that these DVD's will only have French subtitles. So if you pre-ordered these based on the appearance of English subs, my advise is to cancel those orders and wait until more becomes known. Again sorry, we had multiple confirmations but they all seem to have been quoting the same incorrect source.
Sorry if that title sounds somewhat overenthusiastic, but I'd lie if I said I'm not exited about this!!
Now I know we have wrongly posted before about a possible early DVD-release. Sony has been shuffling dates on this like you wouldn't believe, confusing people left and right. Including several distributors. And us.
But finally there is good news on the horizon for people who can't wait to have Satoshi Kon's "Paprika" on DVD.
This was a tip from Logboy (bless him), using the "Catsuka" forum (bless them!) which actually provided the news about the French R2 releases. Which contains the following information:
-all versions will be released on the 20th of June: normal, super and blu-ray.
-the super edition includes the 760 page book, same as the Japanese had.
-Amazon France has them ready for you to pre-order them.
And here it comes, wait for it:
-includes French, Arab and English subtitles for the normal and super editions (blu-ray has yet to be confirmed)
Add to that the commentary track from the director and composer, and a Japanese DTS soundtrack, and and and...
OK, done pre-ordering.
Here are some links:
You can read about these editions here at Catsuka (our source for this news) , here and here.
As mentioned you can pre-order several editions at Amazon France:
Normal
Super-box
Blu-ray (no English subs confirmed yet - we will keep you updated and are looking as we speak)
Why am I so happy? Well...
My radiant review:
Todds radiant review:
The Flash-y US site:
Play a bit with the Japanese site and listen to the music:
Click here to see the beautiful French poster, large:
Preordered.
Just in time .Almost jumped on Japanise LE (without subs).
Now it would be interesting if Sony will relise Region 1 LE.
Would anyone know if the extras, esp. the book are in english or have eng. subs? That would make or break whether or not i get the super box. It's about 50 Euro, which comes to about $67. Pretty decent deal.
Sweet. I might get the Super edition and the Blue Ray, just in case the Blue Ray one doesn't have subs, but why shouldn't it?
Where'd you get the specs list? Amazon.fr shows no details on anything. Are there any further details on how much is subbed aside from the main feature?
the fnac site says that there is only french subs on the blue-ray, but not much details :
http://www4.fnac.com/Shelf/article.aspx?PRID=1976225&OrderInSession;=1&Mn;=5&SID;=50386bbc-2abe-16f8-9212-3011a42c13a9&TTL;=190520070405&Origin;=FnacAff&Ra;=-3&To;=0Ν=5&UID;=0D3A0DD2E-D066-C6F8-B659-6486AEDA62B6&Fr;=0
I think that would be pretty weird if they wouldn't include english (and arab) subs though it's on the DVD release. btw they say the same thing for the DVD.
Great news! Thanks, Ardvark
thats the one apparent contradiction we're hoping to clear up, that the blu-ray seems to not include english subs at this point. however, if you go looking you can find some sites brave enough to mention it's actually the case :
http://www.dvdfr.com/dvd/f150214_paprika_blu-ray.html
there's a likelihood that the R1 will appear some short period after the limited cinema release (which is very soon - next week?) but i would base a more solid prediction of that on seeing an amazon listing appear, as they're usually the first to know and it's usually 3 months in advance that things are revealed.
Thanks for the update you guys. Already pre-ordered the Japanese limited edition, but I refuse to cancel it! I'm an impatient guy and the Japanese editions are to be released next week so... Also, is it just me or does the French super box look "less" impressive? Anyway, I'll add the French regular DVD or Bluray at a later time, depending on which one will have subs.
What I cant belive is that they dont include spanish subtitles, I mean, there are like 250 millions of spanish speakers.... and the problem is that I know a lot of people who will buy it if ti has those.... jeez!
Hi, I have never imported from Europe. But I am intereseted in importing this because I really enjoyed Paprika. This French release is sounding really sweet. So, I was just wondering, do French DVDs play on NTSC TVs? I have a region-free dvd player that can play R2 Japanese dvds because they also NTSC TVs. But do R2 English DVDs and/or French DVDs work TVs here in the States? I'm not sure with the PAL and SECAM stuff. Do I need a TV that can switch between them? Thanks.
CALAMITY. A source has confirmed that Columbia only provided French subtitles for these releases, making it very unlikely these versions will be in any way English-friendly.
I hereby swear I'll never post DVD-news again, I did it twice and was wrong twice. Even official sources like Sony-Columbia are just too damn unreliable when it comes to details like subs (remember when they mentioned the English version would have a Polish and Italian soundtrack?).
And now I'll start a videogame as I feel the urge to shoot something.
If your region-free player also handles PAL --> NTSC conversion, you're all set. Otherwise, if the disk is PAL and your TV isn't, you are out of luck.