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I hadn't seen this review of this set. Thanks for the link. I have a copy of this DVD set coming from Amazon sometime soon, and I'm really looking forward to it since I've never seen any of these movies before (It seems kind of strange that I'm a huge kaijyu eiga fan but I've never actually seen the first Mothra movie).

My copy arrived from Amazon last Thursday. Seeing the uncut Japanese versions was great, but the English subtitles were way out of synch at times (often preceding the Japanese dialogue, which was annoying).

khyron82 wrote:My copy arrived from Amazon last Thursday. Seeing the uncut Japanese versions was great, but the English subtitles were way out of synch at times (often preceding the Japanese dialogue, which was annoying).

Yeah, stuff like that is annoying. The recent Astonishing Work of Tezuka Osamu DVD has one really bad subtitle glitch: One of the short films on the disc, "Mermaid," has intertitles in Japanese, and the subtitles that translate them don't show up until about 30 seconds later! "Mermaid," like most Tezuka short films, is dialogue-free, and you don't really need the intertitles to understand what's going on, but it's still annoying.

I've always wanted to see the original Mothra movie. ^-^

I have a copy of the DVD, and while I like it -- it's good to own copies of The H-Man and Mothra -- I wish they'd done as much with them as has been done with the Tokyo Shock Toho flicks like The Mysterians or the recent Showa Godzilla film set, where they included mini-documentaries about the films, their creators (Ishiro Honda, Eiji Tsubaraya), and commentaries on the films' impact in Japan and abroad.

The Icons of Sci-Fi collection just feels rather bare-bones to me.