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364 films on Best Blurays

Also known as: USA

Type: Region

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Films where US is in a pick or an upcoming release.

Director: Chantal Akerman

Best English-Friendly:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray

Best Video:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray or US Icarus Blu-ray

Video Notes:

BFI Chantal Akerman: Volume 2 Blu-ray or US Icarus Blu-ray but no comparisons

Director: Mike Flanagan

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Shout! Factory or UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

US Shout! Factory or UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray (similar encoding)

Director: James Bobin

Best English-Friendly & Video:

2D: Disney US Blu-ray

3D: Disney International 3D Blu-ray or Apple Vision Pro

Director: Makoto Shinkai

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

US GKIDS 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

Caveat: Songs are only in Japanese, even with the English dub selected.

JP Toho 4K Blu-ray for the alternate Japanese audio with English songs, and US OOP Funimation Blu-ray for the English dub with English songs

Best Video:

US GKIDS/Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(US GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a higher bitrate than the Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray, but improvements are minimal, if visible.)

Additional Info:

Most international releases have a green tint. Only the Japan Toho and US GKIDS releases have no such issues.

Directors: Shinji Higuchi & Hideaki Anno

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray

Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

> France 4K Blu-ray > Japan Toho 4K Blu-ray; caps

US disc includes original Japanese intertitles, as well as stylized English translations for all of them, both burned-in.

Audio Notes:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has no limiting, unlike other releases.

Additional Info:

US Toho/GKIDS 4K Blu-ray has a new English dub, different from the old Funimation US Blu-ray

Director: Damien Chazelle

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Excellent
Upcoming Release:

US Lionsgate Limited 4K Blu-ray re-release announced with Dolby Vision, a new exclusive bonus, and the previously retailer pre-order bonus-exclusive/Hong Kong-exclusive bonus interviews in HD

Video Notes:

Italy Eagle Pictures has DV, better encode, and no brightness shifts compared to Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray for the original Dolby Atmos mix

Additional Info:

Hong Kong Panorama 4K Blu-ray has two interviews available in HD that are SD everywhere else and only included as retailer-exclusive pre-order bonus DVDs with the US Blu-ray

Directors: Eric Summer & Éric Warin

Best English-Friendly:

2D Version: Entertainment One Canada Blu-ray

3D Version: A Contracorriente Films Spain 3D Blu-ray

Best Video:

2D Version: Gaumont France Blu-ray

3D Version: A Contracorriente Films Spain 3D Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Original French audio: Gaumont France Blu-ray

English export dub: StudioCanal Australia Blu-ray

American English redub (Leap!): Lionsgate US Blu-ray

Additional Info:

Also known as: Leap!.

France Blu-ray has the best video and best audio for the original French version, but has no English subtitles.

Canada Blu-ray has inferior video and audio to other versions, but is the only version that has French audio with English subtitles (dubtitles from the export dub).

UK Blu-ray censors one of the songs. Australia and Canada Blu-rays present the uncensored export dub, with better audio in the former.

US Blu-ray only has the redub.

Spain 3D Blu-ray has the English export dub titles instead of the original French titles.

Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda

Best English-Friendly:

US Magnolia Pictures Blu-ray or UK Thunderbird Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparisons

Director: Zhang Yimou

Best English-Friendly:

Well Go US 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

Any of the 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Engilsh dub: Well Go 4K Blu-ray
5.1: 2019 Hong Kong 4K Blu-ray (upsampled to 24/96)

Director: Makoto Shinkai

4K · Worse Than BD
Best English-Friendly & Audio:

US GKIDS / UK Anime, Ltd. Blu-ray

Best Video:

Italy Dynit Blu-ray

Additional Info:

4K Blu-ray is an inferior upscale that is oversharpened and overexposed HDR.

Director: Jiao Zi

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Well Go USA 4K Blu-ray

Director: Adrian Grünberg

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US/UK Cut: Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray

International Cut: Germany Universum Film 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

A new Lionsgate 4K Blu-ray with both cuts and DV upcoming including with the rest of the films.

Director: Tim Miller

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Richard Stanley

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US RLJ 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

> Germany Plaion Media 4K Blu-ray

Director: Kelly Reichardt

Best English-Friendly:

US Lionsgate or UK MUBI Blu-ray

Best Video:

US Lionsgate or UK MUBI Blu-ray no comparison available

Directors: Katsuichi Nakayama & Kazuya Tsurumaki & Mahiro Maeda & Hideaki Anno

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly, Video & Audio:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray for both the original Japanese and the Amazon English dub

Additional Info:

US GKIDS/UK Anime, Ltd. 4K Blu-ray has higher bitrate and better encoding than the Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray. Japan King Records 4K Blu-ray on the box set has inferior encoding, but includes the theatrical (:3.0+1.0) and streaming (:3.0+1.01) cuts on standard Blu-ray as bonuses.

Director: Julia Ducournau

Best English-Friendly:

US Decal Releasing Blu-ray

Best Video:

No comparisons

Director: Mamoru Hosoda

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

All The Anime/Shout! Factory & GKIDS (UK/US) 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(caveat: forced subtitles)

Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Universal 4K Blu-ray

Video Notes:

(for original forced subtitles font)

Additional Info:

IMAX sequences have not been released on home video to date

Director: Ridley Scott

Best English-Friendly & Video:

US Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Audio Notes:

UK/Germany Warner Bros Blu-ray has the Atmos mix

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