Info and Help Wanted: Foreign DVD of The Wizard of Oz 1982 anime movie for preservation?

Hi, I own the VHS release of The Wizard of Oz (1982) by Paramount and was wondering if this was ever released on an official DVD release in a foreign country. So far, the only foreign DVD I’ve come across is on a DVD site from Pakistan that sells bootlegs.
I’ve been wondering if there’s a Japanese DVD of this movie, since I saw an English version reconstruction on YouTube, using a foreign DVD which has the 1983 Japanese credits in place of the original 1982 English credits. I would like to preserve the Japanese version, make my own English version reconstruction with the English audio and credits from the LaserDisc (except I don’t own a LaserDisc player, and the only upload of the full English version of the 1982 movie that’s on YouTube is in poor quality and stretched to 1.78:1), and upscale both the English and Japanese versions to 1080p with Topaz Video Enhance AI.

From what I can see, it was only released in Japan on VHS. It remains unreleased on any other format in the country. The copy on Youtube comes from its Polish DVD release which is as far as I know, the uncut Japanese version with Japanese credits. It has no English subtitles but the Japanese audio is there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ozu-mahôtsukai-Region-English-version/dp/B0086D4IN8

SpookyDollhouse said:

From what I can see, it was only released in Japan on VHS. It remains unreleased on any other format in the country.

Jeez, not even on VHD videodisc or LaserDisc? That’s a bummer.

SpookyDollhouse said:

The copy on Youtube comes from its Polish DVD release which is as far as I know, the uncut Japanese version with Japanese credits. It has no English subtitles but the Japanese audio is there.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ozu-mahôtsukai-Region-English-version/dp/B0086D4IN8

Ah, I see. So that’s why I couldn’t find it on Amazon’s US site or on eBay.

I can’t purchase the DVD from the UK site, since I live in the US and the page says “Your selected delivery location is beyond seller’s delivery coverage for this item. Please choose a different delivery location or purchase from another seller.” I checked the US site for the DVD, but it’s out of stock there. If anyone in the UK is willing to purchase it and send it to me, please PM me.

A year later, so not sure if you’re still around… anyhoo.

I created the reconstruction that’s floating around YouTube. It’s sourced from the Polish DVD, which contains Polish and Japanese audio, plus the Japanese credits. What you see on YouTube is the best I could get picture-wise from what’s essentially a very poor transfer of the footage for DVD.

I’ve spent hours trying to get decent results from restoring and/or upscaling the DVD footage, but unfortunately it’s just in too poor shape. There’s too many blended frames which can’t be resorted via deinterlacing, or even running it through something like srestore in Vapoursynth.