GAMERA: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION Blu-ray Coming 07/28 from Arrow Video

Arrow Video has formally announced the release date, and some of the packaging art and specs for their upcoming "Gamera: The Complete Collection" Blu-ray box set. The set will contain all 12 Gamera films and extras across 8 discs and will be available in both North America and the UK.

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Arrow Films describes the set and contents:

The original hero in a half-shell returns! For the first time ever worldwide, all twelve tales of the adventures of everyone’s favourite titanic terrapin are collected together in one deluxe Blu-ray boxset. This limited edition collectors’ set traces the decades-long evolution of Gamera, from the “friend of all children” in his more light-hearted earlier films, to the Guardian of the Universe in the groundbreaking 1990s reboot series, often hailed as three of the best kaiju films ever made.

Production Year: 1965
Running Time: 1174 Mins
Number of Discs: 8
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Audio: 1.0 / 2.0 / 5.1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 / 2.35:1
Colour: B&W / Colour

• Limited collectors’ edition packaging, housed in a large-format rigid box, fully illustrated by Matt Frank

• All twelve uncut original Japanese versions of the films in high definition, with lossless Japanese and English audio

• 4K restorations of the critically acclaimed Heisei trilogy (Gamera the Guardian of the Universe, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion, Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris)

• Hours of new and archive bonus features, expert commentaries (including August Ragone, David Kalat, and Steve Ryfle & Ed Godziszewski), interviews with cast and crew, and the worldwide Blu-ray premiere of Gammera The Invincible (the American theatrical version of the first film)

• Hardback 120-page comic book including a full-color reprint of the four-issue Gamera comic series originally released by Dark Horse Comics in 1996, and the first-ever English-language printing of the prequel comic “The Last Hope” by Matt Frank and Joshua Bugosh

• Perfect-bound 80-page book including a new retrospective on the series by Patrick Macias, kaiju X-ray illustrations by Jolyon Yates, and much more!

FINAL SPECS TO BE CONFIRMED SOON


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