Sasanatieng's Tears of the Black Tiger Hitting US Screens In Early 2007!

On no. I was hoping the Weinsteins to give this movie a "strong" release . :P

I've been looking for a real copy of the Thai release after seeing Citizen Dog and AFFD a few months ago. Out of print and hard to find, let's hope the theatrical release isn't the UK etc cut version

The article says the film was bought from Miramax, so the Weinsteins didn't have it anymore, it was left behind at Disney.

Why? Well, at some point the Weinsteins decided they liked the word "dragon" a lot better than the word "tiger", and bought a bunch of randomly chosen films with the word "dragon" in their title and started an Asian films division called Dragon Dynasty.

That's how grown-ups make important business decisions.

Not sure about that UK cut comment. Unless the Thai cut is drastically different from my R3 Singapore DVD (never been able to pick up the R3 Thai one), the R2 Brit DVD is considerably bloodier (in a few specific shots), but tighter in plotting and characters IMO. My expanded (but probably not exhaustive list of differences is here: http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showthread.php?t=280504&highlight=tears+black+tiger

I'm considering picking up the French and/or German R2 dvds of this one as well if they have [subtitled] extras different from the Singapore R3 (the R2 UK is unfortunately barebones). Cheesy though it may be, I do end up being a somewhat nerdy completist on a few things every now and then ("The Goon" by Eric Powell is another one).

Josh: Are you a member of Greenine? They have a copy in their roster that you can rent. I think it's the original Thai version. Not absolutely sure, though.

This is good news, eh Todd? I can't wait to see these colors on a big screen.

wow! my hope is restored -- this means that there are people that care about Film rather than just sitting on properties. Maybe we can start a Weinstein Vault Rescue Fund? "Won't you please help?"

I thought the Weinsteins had the ending changed and that Five Star and Wisit were pretty upset. I'd be interested to know which cut they are showing.

We'll be releasing the original version that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2001.