Thursday, November 27, 2014

Knight Rider - Japanese BD boxset

NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan released
"Knight Rider Complete Blu-ray Box"
in Japan today (2014-11-27).

The set contains all 4 seasons (84 episodes) on BD,
plus 2 bonus DVDs.

Buy at Amazon Japan



Links

(They are in Japanese only, of course.)


Basic disc specs
  • Discs: BDx24 + DVDx2
  • Region code: All
  • Audio: English dts mono / Japanese dts mono
  • Subtitles: Japanese
  • Total running time: 4355
Supplements
  • Birth of Knight Rider
  • Design gallery
  • Photo gallery
  • Behind the shooting of Knight 2000
  • On musical score
  • Audio commentary with David Hasselhoff and Glen A. Larson on the pilot episode
  • 2 bonus DVDs (English audio with Japanese subtitles):
    • Knight Rider 2000
    • Knight Rider 2010
    (Caution: I'm NOT sure if DVDs are also region ALL, as it's not explicitly stated.)
  • Booklets:
    • Episode guide (40 pages)
    • Initial pressing only: Reproduction of Japanese dubb script for the pilot episode (192 pages)

According to the advertisement,
This is the "world's first release of Knight Rider on Blu-ray"
and it's "HD transfer from the original films".


For Japanese customers, the big "catch" is the additional Japanese dubbs with the original voice cast,
for the cut scenes and missing episodes from the original Japanese broadcast.

Of course it adds nothing for foreign fans,
but I think such effort shows the publisher's care for this release.