Info: Calling all OT Peeps in Japan: "Godzilla 4K Project" Preservation

To the probably very few of you who are in Japan and have the Japanese Movie Specialty Channel (, “www.nihon-eiga.com/),”)http://www.nihon-eiga.com/),, “www.nihon-eiga.com/),”) you’d probably be interested to know they are airing a series of 4K remasters (downscaled to 1080i, of course) of the whole Godzilla series this whole weekend. The “Godzilla 4K Project”, they call it. This has not been covered by the English language fandom press at all, to my knowledge. So to those of you lucky enough to meet the previously mentioned conditions, you should definitely try and record these. They may be promising.

God knows when these new versions will appear on home video. Toho reissued the entire series on Blu-ray two days ago and all are old transfers from 2008. Typical shit-eating Toho decision born entirely of greed. It is imperative that these be DVR’d by an enterprising pirate.

Schedule for the marathon - http://www.nihon-eiga.com/osusume/55godzilla/

Information on the remasters - http://www.nihon-eiga.com/osusume/godzilla/special03.html

I just skimmed over the page but the "4K Project" only appears to be a 28-minute special consisting of scenes from each movie, the individual airings of the movies themselves don't appear to be from 4K masters.

It'd make for a cool comparison, but I don't have cable.  My GF does, but there's no way to directly record from the cable box.  It would be possible if she was willing to spend an extra 5,000 yen a month to rent a special BD recorder/cable box, but lately she's doesn't even seem to want to pay what she's paying now.

But the bitrates on Japanese cable usually suck, and I'm sure these will be coming to home video eventually.  The recent BDs were likely just a cash-in for the new movie, Toho will definitely want to get people to double-dip again.

Ohhh, so they did it as a big gimmick. Sucky. I assumed the special was a documentary on the remastering process; a similar special was broadcast when they did the films in 2K back in '08. Anyway, 28 films in 4K definitely is a lot to ask for, so I can't say I'm surprised. Thanks for the confirmation.