looks cool!!

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Of course you COULD just watch those scenes IN the movie... seeing as how ReverendBeastly went to such an awesome effort of putting it together.

The purpose was that the Japanese DVD was only available in Japan, is out of print, the menus are in Japanese, and the Chinese and Japanese dialog is not subtitled into English.

Basically anyone who is in the U.S., doesn't speak Japanese or doesn't have a time machine is screwed if they want to watch this. :)

This thread was started some time before we had finalised the forum rules.

Changing menus and adding English subtitles to a retail DVD classes this project as a Custom DVD, not a Fan Edit.

As such, information, feedback or reviews are welcome, but you are not permitted to discuss distribution methods such as torrents or rapidshare.

For more information, check out Rule Nos. 3 and 8b.

edskizzorhands said:

A look at the artwork...

I like the artwork. But can you mabye change the "extended japanese version" title? First I think it looks a bit misplaced where it is right now and it doesn't sound very catchy...

edskizzorhands said:

I don't plan on altering the cover. I pretty much made it for myself, but anyone else who wants it is free to use it. The cut of the film is the extended japanse version, so I don't think giving it a "catchy" name makes sense, that's what it is. What would you suggest?

maybe on the front,putting "extended japanese version" at the bottom ?perhaps changing "version" with "cut".

also on the "side" (sorry i dont know the english word for it...) changing place  "extended japanese version", putting it following movie title ?

ok,i'm sorry,you probably havent understood a thing....... :)

Mitch said:Many thanks to all who put this together three years ago when I started this thread. I enjoy watching this movie more and more everytime I watch it. We owe a ton to the poeple that made this happen.

well,despite the help of satanika who i thank,i woke up too late for that one...

edit:i got it now,thanks satanika

Wouldn't it more accurately be named the Director's Cut not Japanese Cut? (At least it would certainly be the author's cut).

I'm not sure I agree with that.  The Japanese cut is almost identically to the script.  Obviously someone set out to make that movie.

Hmm.  Even taking the bolded quote at face value, I READ the script.

While it's been quite a while since I have read it, I don't remember much of anything different between that and the Japanese cut.  Maybe a couple lines, but it's really really close. Closer than most movie final cuts are to the script.

I think that's just William Gibson unwilling to take any blame for the movie's failure, and hoping that no one reading the quote will actually read the script AND get to see the Japanese cut.

Still.  I liked the theatrical version a lot, and love the Japanese cut more.

Ironically, Johnny Mnemonic was the reason I saw the Matrix opening day (playing hookie).  (Though the awesomeness of the Matrix was the reason I saw it again that evening... and the following day.)

Plus, it sounds like some post production stuff probably visually altered the movie to an extent.