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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a review by dfmorgan

Title:Original Title: Kaze no tani no Naushika
Year: 1984
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Rating: PG
Length: 117 Min.
Video: Widescreen 1.85:1
Audio: English: PCM: Mono, Japanese: PCM: Mono, Commentary: PCM: Mono
Subtitles: English, Commentary

Stars:
Sumi Shimamoto
Mahito Tsujimura
Hisako Kyoda
Goro Naya
Ichiro Nagai

Plot:Extras:
Scene Access
Audio Commentary
Feature Trailers
Bonus Trailers
Featurettes
Interviews
Storyboard Comparisons



Gorgeous. I didn't get a chance to do any comparison with my R1 DVD but everything seemed clearer with a greater depth of colour. Audio has been changed with this Blu-ray edition from Dolby Digital to LPCM but still mono, no remixing to surround. Optimum have supplied only the Japanese print, maybe that was all that was available in high definition, so there were no English or Disney credits but the English Voices were from the original Disney release.

Original DVD review is here

ETA original DVD review link

(From Ghibli Blu's on October 19th, 2010)

My Boss, My Hero, a review by Tom

My Boss, My Hero (2001/South Korea) IMDb | Wikipedia Winson Entertainment (Hong Kong) Director: Yun Je-gyun Writing: Ha Won-jun (Writer), Kim Yun-hi (Writer), Yun Je-gyun (Writer) Length: 98 min. Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85 Audio: Korean: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Korean: Dolby Digital 5.1, Cantonese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Chinese, English

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Stars:
Jeong Jun-ho as Kye Doo-sik
Jeong Ung-in as Kim Sang-doo
Jeong Un-taeck as Dae Gah-ri
Park Jun-gyu as Jo Bong-pal
Oh Seung-eun as Lee Yoon-joo

Plot:
Kye Doo-sik (Jeong Jun-Ho), is a gang vice leader, after dropping out from high school. But Doo-sik's stunted education makes him the laughing stick of the gang, and he's commanded to return to his studies by his boss. Disguised as a 19 year old, Doo-sik has a hard time at school: he's whipped, blackmailed and bullied by both teachers and students ten years his junior. But before long, Doo-sik begins to notice violent corruption in the school. The school foundation director is funded by a gang organisation, and demands that teachers give rich students good marks so that they can get into top colleges. The loathsome director sexually harasses female teachers and defends a student's mother who beat a teacher. When a student Doo-sik knows is beaten to a pulp then expelled, Doo-sik rallies his henchmen and fellow students and sets out for revenge.

Extras:

• Scene Access

After recently watching Gokusen and GTO again, I stumbled across this movie which sounded like a similar premise. Instead of a tough teacher (with gangster background in the case of Gokusen), a student with gangster background comes to school. I expected more of a comedy, but this movie is more serious with him dealing with a corrupt school.

Rating:

(From 2010 December Marathon - Discussion thread on December 24th, 2010)

Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews, a review by Tom

Star Trek: Voyager
1.03 Time and Again
Writer: David Kemper (Screenwriter), Michael Piller (Screenwriter), David Kemper (Original Material By)
Director: Les Landau
Cast: Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Commander Chakotay), Roxann Biggs-Dawson (Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres), Jennifer Lien (Kes), Robert Duncan McNeill (Lieutenant Tom Paris), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Lieutenant Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Ensign Harry Kim), Nicolas Surovy (Pe'Nar Makull), Joel Polis (Ny Terla), Brady Bluhm (Latika), Ryan MacDonald (Shopkeeper), Steve Vaught (Officer), Jerry Spicer (Guard)

Voyager investigates a planet which was annihilated by an accident. Janeway and Paris are transported back in time the day before that accident and they have to find a way to prevent it.
This episode is okay. The best bit is the scene with the doctor. And after knowing how the character of Janeway develops/acts throughout this series, the scene where Janeway gets smacked in the face is somehow funny, I must admit.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Star Trek Reviews on November 27th, 2011)