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Timothy Price
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From: Minneapolis, MN. USA
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posted March 05, 2013 11:14 PM

So in America we had Ken, Castle, Blackhawk, Columbia, Disney, U8 ... ETC

In The UK- Mountain, Walton ... ETC

Germany -UFA, Marketing,Piccolo ... ETC

So my question is ...

Did Japan have any small (Super 8) format releases? [Confused]

Just Curious!

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted March 06, 2013 01:38 AM

The Asahi corporation and Fuji released 8mm films.
Fuji released Ken's Star Wars.

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Joerg Polzfusz
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posted March 06, 2013 02:36 AM

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted March 06, 2013 05:17 AM

Japan had their own release both local films and import. Howeer their prices now are unrealistic while the print quality is jurst the same like others, i.e reddish and lines.

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Osi Osgood
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posted March 06, 2013 01:58 PM

What I would love to find out about is the japanese super 8 optical sound features. They were obviouslty out there, as I have a feature print, optical sound of the Burt Reynolds film, "Hooper", in fuji film, with spot on perfect color, and small japanese subtitles.

I understand from a dource years ago that they released super 8 optical until sometime in the early 1990's and there may to this day be some titles that I'd love to get. They released "Hunt For Red October" in japan on super 8 optical sound. I didn't acquire it, but i saw it for sale once.

Being that by time "STAR TREK 4" was released on super 8 optical as a feature, that they were allowing for both an english and an japanese optical track, there's every chance that these later features would not have subtitles either.

Yumm ... another countries opticals to long for!

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Barry Attwood
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posted March 07, 2013 03:07 AM

I remember many years back I sold a print of "Back To The Future", it had English sound, but Japanese sub-titles, the only problem was the sub-titles were not that small, and in a lurid red, I sold it off course, it was fine during the many action sequences, but when people talked, the subs were very distracting.

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Brian Hendel
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posted March 07, 2013 08:33 PM

I remember back in the 70's my father went on a trip to Japan and I begged him to bring me back something on super 8. He asked at the front desk of his hotel... and later that day a film dealer was called in who came up to his room with a brief case full of films. My father bought one, a 100' color/sound digest of Monster Zero with a really cool Godzilla box. Sadly, I lost it over the years... but I remember the quality being excellent... and I wonder what else was in that brief case! You would think with the Elmo factory being there super 8 would have been quite popular.

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Timothy Price
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From: Minneapolis, MN. USA
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posted March 07, 2013 10:28 PM

Wow Brian! That's a great story! Would've loved to have seen that one! (and that briefcase!) [Smile]