Right.

[telophase]

So Amazon's habit of bundling reviews from several different versions of a property together and displaying them for each one is not helping me any at the moment. There's one review of the Rurouni Kenshion live-action movie which says it's a fake version of the movie (i.e., someone's making bootleg discs). But WHICH VERSION IS HE TALKING ABOUT? It says "Format: DVD" but the review says it plays in his Blu-ray player...but I'm pretty sure quiate a lot, if not all, Blu-ray players play DVDs, so that doesn't tell me anything. ARGH.

I'm most of the way to talking myself into getting the version sold over on Amazon.co.uk, which looks at least somewhat legit.

Comments

[caramarie]

The .com version does seem dubious :-/

I can vouch for the Australian release being legit, and I'm pretty sure they just buy the rights for the UK editions, if that's helpful.

[telophase]

Thanks. I went ahead and ordered the UK version, as it seemed the easiest thing to do.

[bluerabbit]

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2014-06-22/madman-announces-final-rurouni-kenshin-films-and-dragon-ball-z-battle-of-gods-theatrical-screenings-for-australia/.75799

This says that Madman Ent. has licensed the live action sequels as well but no UK licenses have been announced so Madman might just be doing this on their own. On the other hand you can direct order the original film from the Madman site. Here's the DVD version: http://www.madman.com.au/actions/basket.do?method=recommendations&releaseId=19315

Apparently the Hong Kong Release is also legit: http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/bbs/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1608304 No idea how the subs are, though.

[telophase]

Thanks. I went ahead and got the UK Blu-ray, as that seemed the easiest all around. :)

[estara.livejournal.com]

I found this:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/search/rurouni-kenshin-live-action/0-0-0-bpt.48_q.Rurouni+Kenshin+live+action-en/list.html

Maybe that clears things up?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

I went ahead and got the Blu-ray from Amazon UK, which seems the easiest way to go. :D