Fan-of-Kurosawa wrote:Has anybody seen Panorama's disc of Hideo Gosha's Heat Wave (Kagero)?
I want to know if it is in the correct aspect ratio?
The OAR according to dvdrama is 2.35:1. (The French disc is in the correct aspect ratio).
The only information that Yesasia and Panorama's website provide about the aspect ratio is that it is Anamorphic Widescreen. Nothing else.
So I want to know from somebody who has the disc please. Is it 2.35:1 or is it a cropped 1.85:1 or even a 1.66:1?
The Panorama disc is not anamorphic, it is letterboxed, and the AR is 1.78:1 or 1.85:1. There is also a bootleg from kurotokagi.com that is in the same AR but
is anamorphic, probably taken from the Japanese or French release. Regardless of what dvdrama says about the AR on the French disc, the screencap they have posted on their website is 1.78:1. Unless they've cropped it I think the claim that the movie is in that ratio is inaccurate.
