canofhumdingers said:(the Samurai Trilogy is one I'm hoping they eventually redo, hopefully on bluray - the laserdisc ports of it that they put on dvd are pretty bad).

Agreed. In 2005 I found some discount release that had all three Samurai films in an extra-fat case on 3 discs. The quality was worse than Criterion, but only by a bit. However, the discount release was $19--a steal back in 2005--while the Criterion set was $100. The discount release even had a short documentary (on how swords were made) while the Criterion version just had a trailer. I don't have to tell you I've never owned the Criterion set. Shame, because those films are as good as any of Kurosawa's, but I've never seen them look good. All murky and scratched up. I guess the colour will always be a bit dull because of the photography, but these films deserve to be seen.

Xhonzi: I would pick up any disc that was released after 2006 without worry. So, if you see a Criterion Blu Ray, don't worry about it, because they are all excellent as far as I can tell. You'd probably be very impressed with their Seven Samurai BD. I'm waiting for them to re-do Rashomon--it is probably their best early release (from 2000 I think?) and holds up well on DVD if you were to give it a shot, but I know if they tackled it again they would blow everyone away. There was a fully restored print of it touring in 2009 that I saw theatrically and it was breathtaking.