Isle of Dogs (2018)
Adventure, Comedy, Animation • 1h 41m
Director: Wes Anderson
Cast: Bryan Cranston, Koyu Rankin, Bob Balaban, Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Fisher Stevens, Akira Takayama, Greta Gerwig, Ken Watanabe, Frances McDormand, Nijiro Murakami, Harvey Keitel, Liev Schreiber, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Akira Ito, F. Murray Abraham, Courtney B. Vance, Yoko Ono, Mari Natsuki, Yojiro Noda, Frank Wood, Roman Coppola, Anjelica Huston, Kara Hayward, Satoshi Yamazaki, Gen Ueda, Ryuhei Matsuda, Jun Takahashi, Edward Bursch, Luli Shioi, Erica Dorn, Chinami Narikawa, Chris Benz, Alex Orman, J. Wurster, Jake Ryan, Takayuki Yamada, Kozue Akimoto, Shota Matsuda, Kiyotaka Mizukoshi, Elaiza Ikeda, Ryuhei Nakadai, Shin Mononobe, Ikunosuke, Taichi Kodama, Karin Okoso
Best video release
Criterion 4K Blu-ray, 2K DI upscale, see Chris's review
UHD tiers
About the film
In the future, an outbreak of canine flu leads the mayor of a Japanese city to banish all dogs to an island used as a garbage dump. The outcasts must soon embark on an epic journey when a 12-year-old boy arrives on the island to find his beloved pet.
- Alternative Titles
- 犬ヶ島 (Isle of Dogs)
Director: Wes Anderson
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps and Chris's review
Director: Wes Anderson
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Universal 4K Blu-ray caps. The Blu-ray was clearly low-pass filtered. Luckily, the 4K looks excellent.
Director: Wes Anderson
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray see Chris's review
It's a conservative regrade over previous Blu-ray https://slow.pics/c/CyqhRf9W
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Criterion 4K Blu-ray was an upgrade over previous Blu-ray, removed the orientalist yellow tint, but not much besides that https://slow.pics/c/4b9tem5K
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2K DI Upscale, see caps. SDR grade in HDR container
Director: Wes Anderson
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2K DI Upscale, see caps
4K Blu-ray is slightly cropped on all sides compared to Blu-ray, but "that appears to be a conscious choice as the compositions don’t seem to suffer. They also slightly expanded the black bars in order to hide the ringing on the borders."
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is best, but has surrounds 3 dB too loud
Director: Wes Anderson
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Director: Wes Anderson
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Director: Wes Anderson
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is 2K DI upscale but better encoded than the previous Blu-ray see caps
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
The 4K discs in both Criterion and Imprint sets are FiM encodes, but low-passed. The compression is better, but some of the grain is lost. Difference is pronounced in screen caps, but not likely to be noticed during playback, without a reference to compare it to. Comparisons
All discs use the same source transfer. It's not of the highest quality, and it includes some slight distortion, looping, clicks, pops, and hum. Criterion cleaned it up for their release, but unfortunately also lost a lot of fidelity in the process.
MGM NTSC DVD doesn't seem to have some of the more prominent distortion and has slightly different EQ but is otherwise the same.
Director: Sidney Lumet
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1.85:1: Kino Lorber 4K / Capelight 4K
1.66:1: Criterion 4K but low pass filtered
Comparison between the 4Ks, Criterion on the AR choice
Other discs have unnecessary filtering and sound worse, the difference isn't substantial but audible
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)
Included in the Complete Kubrick box set with FiM encode of the same master from the Universal release without the filtering.
DTS:X mix on Universal 4K Blu-ray most closely approximates original surround mix
Criterion DVD and Universal 4K Blu-ray has additional features not found on the Criterion 4K Blu-ray
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Director: Alfonso Cuarón
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Janus and thus Criterion likely to release 4K Blu-ray in 2027
Director: Hal Ashby
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See caps https://slow.pics/c/lVdZaG0W
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StudioCanal's 4K release is similar in encode quality, but has significant glitches in multiple frames. See comparisons 9-16 here: https://slow.pics/c/YkSVb3Ey
The pitch of the StudioCanal 4K's English audio is too high
Criterion has more extras than StudioCanal.
Director: Jacques Tati
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StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray (part of Jacques Tati boxset releasing December 2026)
More Adventure on Blu-ray
Director: George Pal
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Video format: UHD Blu-ray
WB 4K
Sources: YouTube (opens in a new tab)
An undeniably significant improvement from the BD yet still severely flawed. See DFIC's review.
Director: John Huston
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka Blu-ray > StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. Older DVD or LaserDisc probably even better
All blu-ray releases so far is from the 2010 scan.
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack & Merian C. Cooper
Director: George Lucas
Video format: UHD Blu-ray
OG: "4K77" or "D+77" on high seas.
Special Edition: "4K97_IV" or "D+97_IV" on high seas.
2027 Original Trilogy restoration/50th anniversary rerelease clips leaked plus release confirmed
OG: LaserDisc audio is the best option for the Dolby Stereo mixes (and usually included in fan restorations). There are 16mm/TV rips of the mono mixes.
Special Edition: Cinema DTS or 1997 LaserDisc for the Special Edition.
Director: David Lean
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
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