Confirmed: Criterion Intends to Release Showa Godzilla Films on DVD/Blu-Ray

EmptyH

Sweet. This is great news.

KingKaijuGojira

Excellent. I need a new Destroy All Monsters anyways. My old one is basically a VHS in DVD format. 

Danzilla93

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS!

This is incredible news!  That only leaves 4 Showa films out of Criterian's catalogue.  Imagine if the sub-licensed the three Kraken titles (Sea Monster, Hedorah, and Gigan), and somehow got Universal to work with them to sub-license King Kong vs Godzilla?  The ENTIRE Showa era could be under the Criterian banner!  But 14 different titles is already more than I ever could have dreamed of.  Bless the Criterian Collection. :)

riggzamortis86

I have a lot these on DVD but not Bluray. So I guess selling my soul to the devil in order to get them is a good time as any to have this.

The Legend of Brian

Well I'm going to have to repurchase all of these. I'm not too heartbroken over it though considering the cir***stances!

Spi3000

Even though a Blu-Ray release still eludes, the fact that they do aim to try to get a release is a good thing, and one I hope does happen relatively soon. Especially for two movies that are on this list, "Son of Godzilla," and "Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla." For whatever reason, these two movies are extremely hard to get in the US, especially if you're looking for the dub as DVD for both movies easily rack up in the $100+ price range on sites like Amazon and eBay. As much of a G-Fan I may be, even I would never spend that much for a movie. And Criterion has been so far been good with the already released films on DVD with Gojira (Godzilla, King of the Monsters) Godzilla Raids Again, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Invasion of the Astro Monster, Godzilla vs. Monster Zero, Godzilla's Revenge, and Terror of MechaGodzilla. Each movie is uncut from both the Original and Dub. With that said, I do hope these movies do get a Blu-Ray release soon so these movies can reach the fans from the West who have struggled to try and get these movies in the past.

G. H. (Gman)

Spi3000,
The reason Son of Godzilla and Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla '74 are so expensive on Amazon and eBay is because they've been out-of-print for quite a few years. Sony had the rights to those two films, but dropped them many years back. Thus, the two films ended up having no official distributor in the US and Sony's discs skyrocketed in price due to them being out-of-print and rare.

Also Gojira (Godzilla, King of the Monsters) Godzilla Raids Again, Mothra vs. Godzilla, Ghidorah: The Three Headed Monster, Invasion of the Astro Monster, Godzilla's Revenge, and Terror of MechaGodzilla have never been released on DVD by Criterion. You're referring to Classic Media, which was the former license holder of those movies. Classic Media released the aforementioned titles on DVD a decade ago. (Including War of the Gargantuas and Rodan.) After Classic Media was absorbed by Dreamworks Classics, which is a subsidiary of Dreamworks Animation, it seems the Classic Media Godzilla discs started going out-of-print this past summer. When Criterion ends up releasing these same movies on DVD & Blu-ray you can bet they'll be even better discs.

riggzamortis86

@Spi3000, I find those 2 movies at FYE all the time pretty cheap. Like 10 to 20$ Maybe check stores like that? Im glad I bought those movies back then, I see all these movies I have in my collection and I bought them soo cheap back then.

But Im willing to go super crazy for these releases on Blu-Ray. I need them all.