| ERA (Columbia's distributor in Hong Kong) presents the film in a anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 aspect ratio. Sharpness and colours looks steady throughout and print is clean.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 track mainly consists of Mandarin but also some sections are in Cantonese. Being very dialogue-based, the track only comes to life, mainly in the front channels, when larger effects do but does so in a good manner.
The English subtitles are excellent, featuring no spelling or grammar errors. Thankfully they're not the yellow font that Columbia usually goes with but instead a nice white. Korean, Thai and Chinese subtitles are also available.
Extras come in the form of a 21 minute, 12 second making of (with permanent Chinese and optional Korean subtitles only). It goes through each respective character and actress, mixed in with the odd glimpse of behind the scenes material but not much else can be taken away from it for those of us who don't understand the language. Trailers for Passionada, Tokyo Godfathers and Warriors Of Heaven And Earth are also included but strangely none for 20 30 40.
Also included with the dvd is a promotional item in the form of a small, vanilla-scented teddybear. What connection it has with the film? I have no idea....but it's vanilla-scented. |