Initial-D The Movie

[Mux213]

HK,

I'd buy the DVD originally right away without a second thought if it is brought out with english subtitles. But I have good hopes for that seeing its a HK movie. The problem then being that it is sold in HK and may not be exported here to Holland, there are very big licensing issues to start selling it in Holland (or another country) and if it doesn't have enough market for a reseller to be interesting in it, it wont be in stores here or maybe not untill a year or two from now.

Then there is the problem with the japanese. They only sell their product in japan, its up to someone else to put in the cash so it can be translated and released somewhere else and often that does not turn a profit. So far only Tokyo pop has done so as far as I know. Jezza's bought DVDs most likely are still bootlegs just like mine and everybody else's. They are all fansubs put on DVD.

So in that way the movie industrie is destroying itself. Its basically telling us:
If you want our product either:
- wait for years and years and years and we may sell it to you with some funcky english screwed up dubbing
- download it illegally 1 week after we release it and be amazed at the fact that fansubbers do a better job then we ever can

Even normal movies from Hollywood are already in store in America before they are finally in the cinema here in Holland. We often can download a movie a year before it is ever viewable legally. What sorta crap is that?

That said, if they put initial D in the cinema here, I will see the premiere. If they put initial D in the shops here, I will buy it, else I'll probably ask you or my brother in law to mail me a HK version bought in a HK store.