Toho
12 Films
Toho
12 Included Films
Toho Pictures, a major film distributor/studio in Japan
Aliases: toho
Type: Label/Studio/Platform
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray for video or Criterion Blu-ray for subtitles
BFI 4K Blu-ray, see detailed review However Criterion has better subtitles
Old BFI Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray > BFI 4K Blu-ray > Toho Blu-ray See DonaldMcDonald's post
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray for video or Criterion Blu-ray for subtitles
BFI 4K Blu-ray, see detailed review However Criterion has better subtitles
Old BFI Blu-ray > Criterion Blu-ray > BFI 4K Blu-ray > Toho Blu-ray See DonaldMcDonald's post
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray's OG Perspecta & mono (filtered but still sounds better than unfiltered 2009 Toho Blu-ray).BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The way Perspecta works is it just changes volume and panning of the mono across L/C/R channels depending on embedded control tones, so realistically all mixes are just the mono, but it's still a big shame that we get a stereo (presumably a downmix of Prespecta...?) rather than than proper mono.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
BFI 4K Blu-ray has excellent master and grade, no DNR and tasteful HDR
Toho Japan 4K Blu-ray's OG Perspecta & mono (filtered but still sounds better than unfiltered 2009 Toho Blu-ray).BFI 4K Blu-ray has OG Perspecta (in 5.1 container) and stereo downmix of it; no original mono.
The way Perspecta works is it just changes volume and panning of the mono across L/C/R channels depending on embedded control tones, so realistically all mixes are just the mono, but it's still a big shame that we get a stereo (presumably a downmix of Prespecta...?) rather than than proper mono.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray: intact grain compared to Toho/BFI UHDs' DNR'd master
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is good, derived from the 1995 Criterion LaserDisc (which would be minimally better due to its lack of filtering) see blah-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray: intact grain compared to Toho/BFI UHDs' DNR'd master
Criterion 4K Blu-ray is good, derived from the 1995 Criterion LaserDisc (which would be minimally better due to its lack of filtering) see blah-ray
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/Ifo4f1EO
Grain is sharper/clearer on the new 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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Criterion 4K Blu-ray see caps: https://slow.pics/c/Ifo4f1EO
Grain is sharper/clearer on the new 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.
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Director: Jūzō Itami
Director: Jūzō Itami
Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno
US Toho 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray caps
BR members also compared subtitles and placement and the US contains the original burnt-in subs compared to the France and Britain 4Ks.
Toho/GKIDS US 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funi US Blu-ray
Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno
US Toho 4K Blu-ray > France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray caps
BR members also compared subtitles and placement and the US contains the original burnt-in subs compared to the France and Britain 4Ks.
Toho/GKIDS US 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funi US Blu-ray
12 films