Title | Best |
Bad Sleep Well, The (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) (Directors Suite) | R1 |
The Region 1 Criterion release of last year sets the benchmark pretty high, with a widely praised transfer and a 36 minute making-of. This NTSC transfer runs for 150:45. BFI in Region 2 (UK) also have a PAL release, with a runtime of 144:35. This transfer has been panned in online reviews that point to excessive cropping of the image. As I mentioned above, I spent some time comparing our transfer with screen shots from the above regions. Our transfer does not contain the cropping that is present in the Region 2 PAL transfer, in fact the framing of our image looks very similar, if not identical to the Criterion transfer. |