Biography from Wikipedia via TMDB
Leading role · Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
179 min cut: Toho 4K Blu-ray
Leading role · Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Leading role · Director: Yojiro Takita
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The 4K Blu-ray has slightly neutered dynamics
4K Blu-ray is from a 4K restoration, better detail, compresison is passable, grading is a bit of a mixed bag (might have been a regrade from SDR)
Leading role · Director: Akira Kurosawa
Small role · Director: Akira Kurosawa
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
France Carlotta > Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/s7AfL3XW
Grain is sharper/clearer on the new Carlotta/Criterion 4K; BFI's grain resolves slightly worse and more so in motion, being a standard Blu-ray; The Toho 4K's grain is softer, probably DNR'd.
BFI Player used to have the same mastering available to stream in 2019.
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