Blu-ray ALL - Japan - My Blueberry Nights ADDED

[Mark_Reynolds]

Title: My Blueberry Nights (Blu-ray) 2007
Country: Japan
Region: ALL
Releasing Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment (Japan) or Asmik Ace
Case Type: Keep Case
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Picture: 1080p 24fps
Soundtracks: English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, Japanese Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Subtitles: Japanese, English (both optional)
Cuts: (95:03) no cuts
Commentaries: none
Extras: "10,279 Miles since Hong Kong" featurette (20:59), "Cannes - Lyon - Paris" featurette (8:57), "Crème de la crème" Deleted scenes (7:06), "Norah Jones Interview" (5:46), Theatrical trailer (2:06)
Notes: All extras (except Theatrical trailer) have optional Japanese subtitles. "Crème de la crème" is a "short" of deleted scenes that are all edited together with no breaks between.
Easter Eggs: none that I know of
Amazon ASIN (UK, French, German, USA releases only): N/A
Source: I own the disc

Post Notes

Releasing Studio
I believe the releasing studio is Asmik Ace, but I'm not 100% sure how to determine this. Asmik Ace's Japanese website lists the title and says "発売：アスミック・エース" which Google Translate says "Release: Asmik Ace" so that's the best I can assume.

Asmik Ace Page

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http://www.digital-voice.net/detail.shtml?id=1132

Aspect Ratio
Every website I can find that lists the Japanese BD says the aspect ratio is 2.35:1, as does the BD jacket itself, however blu-ray.com lists it as 2.37:1 (original 2.35:1). I have no way to confirm the true aspect ratio myself.

blu-ray.com Page

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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/My-Blueberry-Nights-Blu-ray/1293/#Overview

Extras
My region-free Sony BDP-S3700 says the extras are all 1080p 60fps (except for the theatrical trailer, which it says is 1080p 24fps); I can only assume this is what they were encoded at, and not what the original source resolutions were. The deleted scenes featurette is clearly brought in from a lower quality source; it even flashes an English title "My Blueberry Nights DVD Bonus" at the beginning which makes me think it's 480p just encoded at 1080p for the disc. I don't know the technical ins-and-outs of blu-ray authoring so if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about it's because my knowledge/expertise here is limited.

Source
Scans of my personal copy's keep case front and back

Front

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http://imgur.com/NDANCyo

Back

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http://imgur.com/97dwuFt

[James-Masaki_Ryan]

Hi Mark, thanks for the info.
Your BD player saying the extras are "1080p 60fps" seems incorrect, as Blu-rays cannot do 60fps progressively. (On the other hand UHDs are able to do so).Your player may be upscaling SD content or 1080i 30fps content to 60fps. For now I have labeled the trailer as 1080p only.

As for the aspect ratio may be 2.37:1 if measured with a ruler, but we will leave it as 2.35:1 as the inlay states.

Asmik Ace is the rightsholder and theatrical distributor of the film in Japan. The older DVD releases were distributed by Kadokawa, and the Blu-rays the distributor changed to Sony so we will label this as a Sony release.

Added the release, thanks!