Audio: | English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono* / 192 kbps
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| Subtitles: | Japanese
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| Menus available in: | Japanese & English
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Special features: |
- Biographies & filmographies (1 page each, in Japanese)
- Staff
- Giulio Questi, Franco Arcalli, Dario Di Palma & Bruno Maderna
- Cast
- Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gina Lollobrigida, Eva Aulin & Jean Sobieski
- Flyer article (12 pages, in Japanese)
- Poster gallery (11 pages)
- Trailer (3:48, in Italian)
4-page booklet (in Japanese)
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| Notes: | There's nothing I can say about this DVD, that hasn't already been mentioned in Michael Mackenzie's review over at DVDTimes. Nevertheless, let me show you a few examples of the issues he points out. First, the interlaced / non-anamorphic transfer of the feature presentation vs. the progressive / anamorphic trailer (note that the latter uses a different shot for every scene, which makes a direct comparison impossible):
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26539 / 1590 | 42623 / 2082 | 55140 / 5775 | 57451 / 2261
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Regarding the extra shots in the trailer - an issue I myself fussed about in the review of " Der Rächer" - I think this might be a common practice, and does not necessarily mean the film is cut:
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2126 | 3622
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About the framing, it seems indeed a bit tight. Michael suggests that the film might have originally been exhibited in a wider aspect ratio. On the other hand, the cramped head-space (particularly visible when compared with the below bootleg DVD+R release framed at 1.71:1) suggests that the intended ratio was perhaps closer to 1.66:1, an AR not uncommon for the gialli from that period:
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13176 / 10818 | 61122 / 50805
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And now, to conclude this review, here's a lil'something for my friend tomiisek, a great admirer of Jean-Louis Trintignant: ;-)
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21906 / 18100
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*difference between channels is -75.04 dB (0.02 %), resp. -74.55 dB (0.02 %) |