Japanese Bruce Lee Blu-rays/4K UPDATED

[Frank_Chan]

For all of the Japanese releases of these on Blu-ray and 4K:

The Big Boss
Fist of Fury
Way of the Dragon
Game of Death
Tower of Death

The releasing studio is Twin, not Paramount or NBC.
The back of the cases says that Twin is the publisher and Paramount or NBC are the distributor.

Also in the Notes section about the incomplete soundtracks, it's likely that the Japanese dub tracks are taken from tv cuts which may be missing those scenes, so that may be why they switch to the English track.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

The releasing studio is Twin, not Paramount or NBC.
The back of the cases says that Twin is the publisher and Paramount or NBC are the distributor.

We'll just leave it as Paramount.

Also in the Notes section about the incomplete soundtracks, it's likely that the Japanese dub tracks are taken from tv cuts which may be missing those scenes, so that may be why they switch to the English track.

Which soundtracks are incomplete?

[Frank_Chan]

All of them except for Tower of Death. I previously thought they were incomplete but maybe I was wrong. It's better to just delete those notes.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

I've added notes to each about the missing audio. I also Added the individual "Fists of Fury" and "The Way of the Dragon" 4Ks, but not "The Big Boss" and "Game of Death" since those separately have new bonus discs which we don't have specs for. (The Big Boss adding the Mandarin Cut on DISC THREE and Game of Death adding the "Final Game of Death" visual essay from the Arrow release.)

[Frank_Chan]

Also on the Japanese blu-rays of:

Game of Death
Tower of Death

Each have these options as bonus cuts:

* The Film - Hong Kong Version (SD)
* The Film - Taiwan Version (SD)

BUT, they both actually play a Hong Kong version sourced from a Universe Video CD releases.
Tower of Death is the Hong Kong cut, but the opening theme is from the Internation cut (same quirk as on the Universe Video CD and DVD releases).

Both options play the same video file. The first option just plays it with the Cantonese track while the second one plays it with the Mandarin track.

On the menu they are listed as:

香港公開版本編
台湾公開版本編

Which would seem like they would be two different versions but they are not.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Added the note to the 4K release.

[Frank_Chan]

It should be also added under the notes for Tower of Death.

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

It's already there.

[Frank_Chan]

The page for Tower of Death blu-ray doesn't have it.

http://www.dvdcompare.net/comparisons/f ... id=36117#4

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

I thought you were talking about Game of Death.
Fixed.