Ok, some good and bad news. The good news is that I don't need to scan through these and look for frame differences because I am not gonna be able to do a multi cap median on these even if I wanted, which is the bad news. In order to do this they need to match up perfectly and these don't, which you can see below.

The US LD from three different players:

PR-8210

LD-V4400

CLD-D704

The Japanese LD:

PR-8210

LD-V4400

CLD-D704

I am still waiting for the PAL transfer from Jaitea, hopefully I'll be able to use that on the badly framed and dirty 15 minutes segment... either way it's going to take some time because I plan to get rid of the distracting dirt once and for all. And no response regarding the re-release trailer.