Shout Factory To Release Showa Gamera In HD

Home video distributor Shout Factory has acquired American home video distribution rights to Daei’s 8 “Showa era” Gamera movies, originally released from 1965 to 1980. The films will be released in high definition transfers with new subtitles and supplemental features. Shout Factory evidently also has distribution rights to the English dubbed versions of these early films, as the distributor has issued a public request for a 35mm scope print of the English language original 1965 film. Neither Shout Factory nor Kadokawa Pictures, which now owns the Gamera movies, has an archival copy of the original English dubbed film.

This is pretty neat because I don’t believe the Showa era Gamera movies have ever been officially released in America in their original Japanese language.

Source: Monster Island News

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