by Oliver_Asmussen » 13 Jun 2016 13:23
Hi.
Some questions:
1.The Warner Japan DVD you submitted has the English (US) mono audio and Japanese mono audio tracks. MY MISTAKE
The DVD I got has the English (US) mono audio and English (Australia) mono audio. SAME HERE
The runtime is the same as you listed, the extras as well.
Short answer:
Just replace japanese with australian language in the listing and then its corrected.
I just looked up the specs in my MPC player as the movie played and since track 1 was english (albeit the us dub as was pointed out to me later) i assumed that track 2 was the japanese one as usually happens with japanese discs since thay produce dubs for every movie as far as i know and i could swear that the japanese disc i owned some 20 years ago did have japanese on it, but my memory could be wrong about that...
I later found out by accident that track 2 is indeed the australian one. My disc is the same as yours.
The long answers is the last response i wrote to perhaps another person.
I just copy/paste it here and hope that clears it up once and for all:
Bad timing because I just shipped it to someone who bought it off me on ebay. It stayed there for less than 12 hours until it sold, probably way too cheap, but it’s still available on amazon.jp.
You already have the full breakdown listed, you should probably make another entry because the Japanese audio has been replaced with the Australian one at least since 2001. I had an older Japanese release as well back in the day it it definitely had Japanese audio on it.
Since you mentioned the audio was the dub and it turned out to be the case I decided to get the uk release which arrived yesterday.
And since that has a MUCH better picture quality upon direct comparison (anamorphic, but less blue tint, which is always welcome and overall far more realistic looking) I decided to keep that one instead since it also has the complete unhampered australian mono track as it turned out. I also have the MGM Blu which looks fairly close to the japan dvd in terms of colour grading. All sound effects (eagle wings, footsteps, dropped rifle, etc.) are accounted for on the UK DVD as well including the “my foot”-line and the “blasphemer”-line.
But the Japanese one is identical to the one you already have in the list with one tiny unexpected detail: The Japanese audio has been omitted and replaced with the Australian one. It is audio track 2 while audio track 1 is the us-dub. (This is why I didn’t even bothered checking the 2nd track out, it was just a lucky incident that I discovered the Australian audio later as I wrote before). Both are Dolby Digital 1.0
Japanese & English subs included, English subs are referring to the us-version, not the oz-version.
The rest is identical (same extras & runtime and still non-anamorphic), my release is from 2001, so they must have changed this somewhere down the line before or on that year since amazon.jp shows pretty much a release for every other year as well. No luck with the oldest Mad Max 2 though.
Moving on. UK release is the easiest & best looking option for original audio. Please don’t say there is anything wrong with that disc now.
Cheers