Speaker 1: Hello there, and welcome back to the disc connected here
Speaker 1: with perhaps the youngest boutique blu ray label in the
Speaker 1: world at the moment, considering we don't even have our
Speaker 1: first release in hand yet, but I want to give
Speaker 1: you all of the information possible with New Way Video. Here,
Speaker 1: we've got John who you might recognize has been on
Speaker 1: the channel before. John is a part of the Imprint
Speaker 1: podcast and a few other things, the Indicator Cast, and
Speaker 1: he's been a part of the awards show that I
Speaker 1: do and some other stuff. Well we'll talk about one
Speaker 1: of the other exciting things coming up to but John's
Speaker 1: partner my echoes here as well. Welcome, thanks for coming.
Speaker 2: On, Thank you for having us fat New.
Speaker 1: Way Video before I ask all the deep stuff behind it.
Speaker 1: What is New Way Video? What you what are you
Speaker 1: giving your elevator pitch as nowadays?
Speaker 2: Yes, a New Way Video is. Like I said, it's
Speaker 2: a label that's focused on genre titles, particularly Asian genre titles.
Speaker 2: So we're really going after the obscure, forgotten films, films
Speaker 2: that we personally love as well that just haven't been
Speaker 2: given that sort of special treatment, and films have lost
Speaker 2: in limbo. So I guess our main mission is to
Speaker 2: sort of rescue Asian films, particularly like I said, hard
Speaker 2: hitting genre films and sort of titles that we're big
Speaker 2: in that day but have essentially been forgotten and not
Speaker 2: because of any sort of issues with the film, just
Speaker 2: because of the rights issues or things that have happened
Speaker 2: over the years. So our main goal is to just
Speaker 2: present some of the most you know, controversial or you know,
Speaker 2: I guess, how shall we say outstanding or and like
Speaker 2: I said, in terms of critically claimed as well films
Speaker 2: in the Asian line, and obviously we're we're focusing on
Speaker 2: Japanese right now, but sort of our goal is to
Speaker 2: get these films back out to the public in very
Speaker 2: nice special editions.
Speaker 1: It is exciting to see, you know, you've announced three
Speaker 1: of your titles so far, and every single one. I've
Speaker 1: seen many people, especially spying three and we're going to
Speaker 1: get into all of these, but many people responding with,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I've been looking for this for years
Speaker 1: and here you are delivering it to the people of
Speaker 1: Australia and kind of secretly the rest of the world
Speaker 1: that are going to fall in love with you quickly.
Speaker 1: This is amazing. One thing that's obvious is you've got
Speaker 1: a partnership here. How is it running things behind the
Speaker 1: scenes as a couple.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we both have our own roles and it's
Speaker 2: a really good sort of ying. And Yang, I guess
Speaker 2: obviously Makos originally from Japan, so we have that advantage.
Speaker 2: Maker works very closely with the license sows, the sales contracts,
Speaker 2: the filmmakers. Yeah, and myself, I'm more on the I guess,
Speaker 2: the production side, sort of picking the films, working with
Speaker 2: the special feature and extras, producers, manufacturing. So it's a
Speaker 2: really good sort of balance. But yeah, and it worked
Speaker 2: well for us because dealing with Japanese license sows is
Speaker 2: a real art form. And Make explained that the sales
Speaker 2: process Japanese is quite a.
Speaker 3: It's quite like a long pulsus, like maybe the lot
Speaker 3: of steps right, yes, to get the deal. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we take you know, time and then you know bucking
Speaker 3: pores and background purse, so we need a bit patient.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yeah, and that's the thing. And some of the
Speaker 2: films we've released is once again not because like I
Speaker 2: said I said earlier, it's just some of the US
Speaker 2: companies may have just given up after like you know,
Speaker 2: maybe two emails no one responded. They use Google Translate.
Speaker 2: They're getting frustrated. Why do they want respond? And so
Speaker 2: you know, Miko knows how to because obviously she comes
Speaker 2: from a sales background as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm working in the educational industry as like
Speaker 3: educational consultants, but more like you know, sales, like marketing.
Speaker 2: I know how to talk with people.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I imagine that's super important. Communication is probably
Speaker 1: like the number one used skill with with this whole industry.
Speaker 3: For the.
Speaker 2: It is especially Japanese companies.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have like you know, a bit different culture,
Speaker 3: you know, com bear with Western countries, so that very
Speaker 3: especially you know culture, so yes.
Speaker 2: And very like I said, patients, and and you know,
Speaker 2: just certain mannerisms as well, like I myself, I spent
Speaker 2: hours just practicing the car delivery. So when you because
Speaker 2: we obviously met these licenses in Japan, we met them
Speaker 2: in person, so there are certain rules. You have to
Speaker 2: be very respectful and if you do something wrong in
Speaker 2: the meeting, that that's it. The deal could be off
Speaker 2: the table. So there's certain steps and I think it's
Speaker 2: very interesting and it is a real learning experience. But
Speaker 2: thankfully with maker has that great sort of skills for
Speaker 2: negotiation as well with the licensees and contracts, so that's
Speaker 2: really helpful. And obviously working with the filmmakers too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, directors, we bigits and directors and you know, we
Speaker 3: got the interviews, so yeah, it was a nice experience.
Speaker 2: And also just general communication, like just just keeping them
Speaker 2: up to date, what's happening with the release, like obviously
Speaker 2: just just keeping them informed. So yeah, so obviously that's
Speaker 2: very valuable to the New Wave Obviously brands trying to
Speaker 2: get you know, work with the licenses, like I said myself, Yeah,
Speaker 2: so more ons of the getting the releases together that
Speaker 2: the extras, and obviously you're getting it into production. So
Speaker 2: it's like it's a really really good balance we have
Speaker 2: sort of between us on that side.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well we've mentioned that the name new Wave Video
Speaker 1: a handful of times already. Why why the name new Wave?
Speaker 1: What does that mean to you and the company?
Speaker 4: Actually, I this isn't my idea, yes, because we are
Speaker 4: based in Sydney, and then you know, we chose the
Speaker 4: name new Wave because Sydney has a lot of like
Speaker 4: nice beaches and you know beach vibes.
Speaker 3: So and then like you know, new wave, but there
Speaker 3: is another.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Reason, like another metaphor like metaphor, Yeah, like we want
Speaker 3: to make like an impact in the industry as a newcomer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so wave making waves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, making wave making an impact.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So I thought, oh, that is kind of like
Speaker 3: a cool name. And I also represents as.
Speaker 2: Like Sydney, we wave the flag for Sydney. Yeah. We
Speaker 2: did go through a few names, and it's kind of
Speaker 2: hard obviously being a names, so we just kind of
Speaker 2: went through and and I thought that was good and
Speaker 2: it was available. The name was available, so we kind
Speaker 2: of we.
Speaker 5: Are actually on the bus, you know, on the way
Speaker 5: to the beach maybe a few years ago, and I said, oh,
Speaker 5: what about like a new way, Yes, yeah, and that's
Speaker 5: the one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And like I said, and this hasn't been an overnight thing.
Speaker 2: This has been over a year and a half of
Speaker 2: planning to get this off the ground. So yeah. So
Speaker 2: the name we probably came up with and you know,
Speaker 2: probably about maybe two years ago. So yeah, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of a spark light ball moment. It's cool.
Speaker 2: And we looked up and it was available, and so
Speaker 2: we registered it and got a really cool logo design
Speaker 2: that kind of I guess shows to the Asian influences
Speaker 2: at of like Japanese style as well. Sort of it's cool.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so obviously that's that's Mako that came up
Speaker 2: with the name. So yeah, we kind of got that
Speaker 2: inspiration as a newcomer.
Speaker 1: Well, and you bring up the timeline, and that's probably
Speaker 1: a good question because I've you know, you and I
Speaker 1: know each other. I've known about this for quite some
Speaker 1: time at this point, and before then you had a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff already leading up to that. What was
Speaker 1: what was the start of this? Like, what was that
Speaker 1: moment that inspired this to begin?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we've been discussing about starting a label for
Speaker 2: a while and it was one of those things where
Speaker 2: it's like you've got to have that first title, or
Speaker 2: at least acquire a title that that's what gets the
Speaker 2: ball rolling. So we weren't looking at various films and
Speaker 2: how this all started was actually our last trip to Japan. Sorry,
Speaker 2: it was actually was January. It was it twenty twenty four, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was. That was the trip for Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's been it's been a while. So we're in
Speaker 2: Japan and we just thought, oh, maybe we can look
Speaker 2: to acquire some films, acquire some films were over here,
Speaker 2: and and so a friend of mine said, oh, you know,
Speaker 2: there's a director shows in for Kui who did ninety
Speaker 2: six four Pinocchio, and I'm a huge fan of that
Speaker 2: film and his other film, Robbers Lover. And so I said,
Speaker 2: to make a what if we approach shows in and say, hey,
Speaker 2: you know your other films not available, could we possibly
Speaker 2: put it out? So we we thought about it, and
Speaker 2: we said, oh, I don't know what we'll see. So
Speaker 2: we went. We went to his bar. We met him,
Speaker 2: absolute gentlemen, and you know, we got along like a
Speaker 2: house on fire. And she was in He he's a
Speaker 2: massive movie fan. His bar is literally filled with movies,
Speaker 2: Like he has a wall of Blu rays and he
Speaker 2: puts a movie on every night because it's called Yeah.
Speaker 2: It's really cool.
Speaker 3: You visited there by yourself? First? I did, yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: without me, So you guys.
Speaker 2: Kind of hit it all, kind of yeah, I hit
Speaker 2: it off.
Speaker 3: But he don't speak English, you don't understand what you
Speaker 3: were saying. But but you guys, movie talk, movie talk, yeah,
Speaker 3: movie movie yes, yeah, And then you all yes, you
Speaker 3: visited next day by yourself again.
Speaker 2: That's right. I forgot, yes, sorry, So I went first
Speaker 2: just just to see if it really was his bar,
Speaker 2: because you know, it could have been let on a
Speaker 2: well chase. I went there, I said, ah, and I said,
Speaker 2: ChEls him and I'm like, Australia shoot in this, I'm
Speaker 2: from Australia. You lost you and she must and and
Speaker 2: he said oh. And then I said, oh, nine sixpo pinocchios. Ah.
Speaker 2: Because at the time he didn't have any posters or
Speaker 2: anything like, you would not know he was the director.
Speaker 2: Recently he's really embraced his films, but obviously at the
Speaker 2: time I didn't even know. I said that you shols
Speaker 2: and something Oh, and I said oh, I said, I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of And he probably thought, who's the
Speaker 2: strange guy from Australia in my bar? And I said oh,
Speaker 2: And so yes, I did completely forgot. I didn't meet
Speaker 2: him first, and then I said to make oh, let's go.
Speaker 2: Originally I said we weren't playing to acquire it. It
Speaker 2: was just the thing. I said, let's meet shows and
Speaker 2: he's a really nice guy. So we went the second night, Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I visited Yeah, you came with Yeah again with me.
Speaker 2: And then I may have had too many drinks that night,
Speaker 2: but I said, oh, and I said, oh, I said,
Speaker 2: because Nicey saw Pinocchio just got a blue ray thing
Speaker 2: from Media Blasters, And I said, where's Rubber's Lover? Because
Speaker 2: I because that's my favorite of his two films, Like
Speaker 2: they're both great, but Rubber's Lover it's more edgy, it's
Speaker 2: more dark, it's more gory, it's more intense. It feels
Speaker 2: more like a Tetsu that I man, I think that's
Speaker 2: his master in my opinion, Like they're both great, and
Speaker 2: I just I just said, what's going on with that film?
Speaker 2: And he said, oh, you know, it's just you know,
Speaker 2: we've had some companies in choir, but no one's really
Speaker 2: gone through with it. And then I, like I said,
Speaker 2: maybe had too many high balls, but I said, oh,
Speaker 2: we'll release it, We'll do it. And and and I
Speaker 2: think as we got along so well, he sort of
Speaker 2: had that trust, like he said, oh, you know, these
Speaker 2: good people like they like movies as well, and thankfully
Speaker 2: he likes to make it was helping us communicate a
Speaker 2: bit better than I could. But that that night we
Speaker 2: were just sort of, you know, talking about movies like
Speaker 2: the whole night, like David Lynch obviously the influence of him,
Speaker 2: you know, Argento and and yeah, and then at the
Speaker 2: end of the night pretty much he said, oh look,
Speaker 2: I'll add you on Messenger Facebook, and so we added
Speaker 2: both of us and they said, we'll start the conversations
Speaker 2: about Rubber's lover. And the thing is I thought that
Speaker 2: he owned the film, but he didn't. It was actually
Speaker 2: owned by a big company, so that leads a whole
Speaker 2: whole other story. But but yeah, that was sort of
Speaker 2: that that light bulb moment, like this will be the film.
Speaker 2: Hasn't got a blue ray, no one's released it, It's
Speaker 2: sitting in limbo. The DVD is horrendous. I hate to
Speaker 2: say it, but it was literally from it like a
Speaker 2: beta master, like it was really washed out. And so
Speaker 2: so I said, oh, yeah, this this could be the one.
Speaker 2: This could be the title. And so I said, to
Speaker 2: make a let's really kind of persist this pursue. This
Speaker 2: is our first title, and so yeah, showsn't kind of
Speaker 2: opened the door for us on our first release.
Speaker 1: Very nice. And when you say no one has released this,
Speaker 1: just so people know that no one has released this worldwide,
Speaker 1: there's no German release, no Spanish release, no UK release,
Speaker 1: no US release, nowhere. So you are the first HD
Speaker 1: proper release of Rubber's Lover, and that's by Number one
Speaker 1: right direct.
Speaker 2: Yes, there's there's no release because once again the you know,
Speaker 2: like I said that the problem was with the elements,
Speaker 2: and so we were the one so we I mean,
Speaker 2: I can go into that story a bit more down please,
Speaker 2: So so yeah, so basically we so I said, oh great,
Speaker 2: you know, we'll deal with shows in we'll we'll get
Speaker 2: the movie from him, we'll restore it. And he said, no, no, no, sorry,
Speaker 2: it's actually owned by, like I said, this company, and
Speaker 2: we oh, okay, and we checked the company. It's this huge,
Speaker 2: publicly traded, massive you know corporation. Oh no. And so,
Speaker 2: because we thought it'd be an easy deal at the bar,
Speaker 2: you know, signed the contract. So and so negotiations began.
Speaker 2: And this is where maker comes into place, because dealing
Speaker 2: with Japanese companies, like I said, it's a it's a
Speaker 2: very slow process. And negotiations began in February twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: It went for a year, and so obviously we were
Speaker 2: going back and forth, back and forth, and obviously in Japan.
Speaker 2: It's very committee based, so they have to go back
Speaker 2: to the board, get it approval, come back to us.
Speaker 2: It's not like America, but it's like, yeah, do it,
Speaker 2: here's the contractlet's boombo boom. It's so it's very much
Speaker 2: a step by step process and so and so, after
Speaker 2: months and months of negotiations, we found it. We said,
Speaker 2: they said, yep, look what we can sign you the film.
Speaker 2: It's all good. Let us check the elements. Oh cool,
Speaker 2: And they came back they said, oh, we don't have anything.
Speaker 2: We've got a We've got like a beta master. How's that.
Speaker 2: We said, we need the elements and we spoke the
Speaker 2: shows and he said they have to have it. Like
Speaker 2: we gave them everything they have to have. The negative
Speaker 2: they have to have. And so basically we went back
Speaker 2: and said can you please search and they said yeah, sure,
Speaker 2: and they looked at oh, yeah, we've got the negatives. Yes, great,
Speaker 2: so and so I know and then we saw okay, great,
Speaker 2: So they're going to scan it. They're gonna do everything
Speaker 2: like no, no, no, you guys are going to do it.
Speaker 2: So and we're like, okay, so so our first film
Speaker 2: so already like because because a lot of people. They
Speaker 2: do their first film, they sign a film master's done,
Speaker 2: they give them the file. It's ready to go. But
Speaker 2: this was a real learning curve because we had to
Speaker 2: now restore a negative from scratch and so and so.
Speaker 2: Then more months passed by, and then obviously we're dealing
Speaker 2: with insurance shipping, and then finally we get the negatives
Speaker 2: sent to us and we begin the restoration. So, look,
Speaker 2: it wasn't that first negative was.
Speaker 3: The different that we expected.
Speaker 2: Yes, and even more problems. So they ship us the
Speaker 2: negative and we take it to the restoration place and
Speaker 2: the guy scans it goes through, guys, this is sound,
Speaker 2: this is not video, and we're like, oh my god.
Speaker 2: So we go back to them, that's right. I forgot
Speaker 2: about that and they said, oh, yeah, look we have
Speaker 2: and they said oh really, and they said, yes, you
Speaker 2: have to have the picture. It has to be there.
Speaker 2: And they certainly said, oh, here it is. We found
Speaker 2: the picture negative and they so just delayed the processing more.
Speaker 2: So there was a real learning curve, like a bunch
Speaker 2: of mishaps, but we finally got through in the end.
Speaker 2: Once again, this was a year process of negotiating, working
Speaker 2: with them, working with a contract and once again just patience,
Speaker 2: extreme patience, and we knew in the end it would
Speaker 2: be worth it because we'll get a film that obviously
Speaker 2: no one else has released, like you said on Blu Ray.
Speaker 2: But obviously the process we have to go through, you know,
Speaker 2: is what what was required in order for us to
Speaker 2: do that. So yeah, it's a bit of a real
Speaker 2: learning curve.
Speaker 1: That's that's a lot that's got to be intimidating for
Speaker 1: your first title and have them not only the long
Speaker 1: negotiation process, but then have so many setbacks, and it
Speaker 1: seems like lately with a lot of these very new
Speaker 1: labels that tends to happen. I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: but it's like an initiation process or something. So good
Speaker 1: job you made it past it. Congrats, I think so.
Speaker 2: I think it was, but it was it was good because,
Speaker 2: like I said, yeah, it was a real initiation process
Speaker 2: because everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and
Speaker 2: it was great because now we know for future what
Speaker 2: to do. And then the thing was like how do
Speaker 2: we get this scanned? And so that was another learning
Speaker 2: process and so I asked around in a good I'm
Speaker 2: sure he won't mind me dropping his name. James from
Speaker 2: Carmellion Films. They obviously run that really cool Asian Britique
Speaker 2: label Melbourne. And so I've been friends with him for
Speaker 2: a while and so we had a phone call. So, look,
Speaker 2: you know, what would you recommend for this? He said, oh,
Speaker 2: look there's a guy in Sydney that does restoration work.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, because we were looking all the restoration work
Speaker 2: was in Melbourne basically, which means kind of like you know,
Speaker 2: you'd have to drive, you know, with a negative ten
Speaker 2: hours to get a scam and so so he said, oh,
Speaker 2: look there's a guy in Sydney. So we sussed it
Speaker 2: out and we went round and I met Ray. And
Speaker 2: Ray does a lot of restoration work for I guess
Speaker 2: so government projects for the film archive. And I've seen
Speaker 2: this work and it's phenomenal. So like, you know, just
Speaker 2: thirty five mili film, sixteen meal film, and I said,
Speaker 2: how do you feel doing a Japanese film? He said, oh,
Speaker 2: it's film, is film, like I'll restore it, you know,
Speaker 2: just just pret in and we took the negative Ray
Speaker 2: and Ray did a phenomenal job on the restoration compared
Speaker 2: to like I said, what looked like before He scanned
Speaker 2: the sixteen Mili in four K. Obviously we went through,
Speaker 2: we checked it. He did color grading, correction, clean up
Speaker 2: on the specs and yeah, so we're like, wow, this
Speaker 2: is fantastic. So now we have a local guy that
Speaker 2: can do restorations and is office got this big four
Speaker 2: K scanner and it makes it easy. Now. So now
Speaker 2: when we negotiate with these film companies, we can say, hey,
Speaker 2: we can restore it for you, send us the negative
Speaker 2: and we'll do it for you. So it really helped
Speaker 2: build this relationship because, yeah, look, raise a great guy
Speaker 2: and he's he's a master at what he does. And
Speaker 2: like I said, he's he's working in more films, some
Speaker 2: Ozzie films he's restoring right now. I saw some of
Speaker 2: the previews and they look phenomenal. So yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: master what he does.
Speaker 1: Well, let's let's dive into Rubbers Lover a little bit more.
Speaker 1: We mentioned some of the themes of the film, But
Speaker 1: first of all, like for Kui, didn't he work with
Speaker 1: Sukermoto a little bit?
Speaker 2: He did. Yes, he worked on Tetsu Byron Man. He's
Speaker 2: one of the crew and he has that sort of
Speaker 2: cyberpunk influence. Yeah, a lot of this he works. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very much sort of punk sort of influence. Like I
Speaker 2: guess there's there's one called Middle Days, which hasn't officially
Speaker 2: had a release, but he is planning on releasing it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's he just had this and he worked
Speaker 2: with what's the director did Crazy Ishi Soga who did
Speaker 2: Crazy thunder.
Speaker 1: Road so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're always sort of like real up and
Speaker 2: coming sort of punk sort of filmmakers and sort of visionaries.
Speaker 2: And he took that influence and then he obviously made
Speaker 2: a bunch of short film student films like Caterpillar, which
Speaker 2: which is really incredible, and then he took that and
Speaker 2: obviously made his first film, nine six for Pinocchio. And
Speaker 2: so he does come from that sort of I guess
Speaker 2: that generation filmmakers like Super Motto, Sono, like all these
Speaker 2: sort of up and coming Mika, like that sort of
Speaker 2: generation filmmakers that were up and coming during the sort
Speaker 2: of video era. And so he obviously took that influence.
Speaker 2: And when we interviewed him, he did mention he was
Speaker 2: influenced by a lot of American films as well, like
Speaker 2: American New Waves. So he's yeah, he's quite the visionary
Speaker 2: and I think, like you said, despite his film being
Speaker 2: so intense and extreme.
Speaker 3: He's yeah, he's an extremely like a gentleman and a
Speaker 3: really soft spoken, very lovely, charming person. So I'm never
Speaker 3: imagined that he made it such a.
Speaker 2: That movie.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, kind of surprise.
Speaker 2: Yeah, quite a shock. Yeah, sorry, because because you see
Speaker 2: his films, you think, oh, this guy must be crazy,
Speaker 2: and you see it's all so yeah, absolutely real gentlemen
Speaker 2: and yeah, the nicest guy in the world.
Speaker 1: Well, and that brings us to the release. Here, we've
Speaker 1: got this this Blu Ray coming. You are delivering a
Speaker 1: really really nice release for the first Blu Ray release
Speaker 1: of this in the world. You've got an interview with
Speaker 1: the Koui. You've got Jasper Sharp, who is like the
Speaker 1: guy for many of these films, doing a featurette on this.
Speaker 1: You've got Suzanne doing another visual essay incredible, and then
Speaker 1: you get a booklet with Stanley in there. And then
Speaker 1: my dear friend, miss Michelle Kissner. These are great I
Speaker 1: would love to hear. Obviously you're in deep with the
Speaker 1: physical media world with me. Who who is like the
Speaker 1: company that you're trying to emulate or who inspired these releases?
Speaker 1: What are you trying to be.
Speaker 2: Like, Yeah, I mean I've because I've been following home
Speaker 2: video for a while, like a long time pretty much life.
Speaker 2: I mean from the early days of local labels over
Speaker 2: here Anchor Bay and know those sort of labels as well,
Speaker 2: and then and so yeah, look at I've Obviously I'm
Speaker 2: a huge physical media clicked to myself, you know, make
Speaker 2: her nose. I probably have too many Blu rays and
Speaker 2: four K, way too many. But I guess some of
Speaker 2: the labels we like obviously. Yeah, like even like like
Speaker 2: Terror Vision, Like I just love that sort of curation
Speaker 2: from a label.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: The guys are like Era four four four, you know,
Speaker 2: just really great sort of like Asian titles, Eureka. So
Speaker 2: these are the sort labels that I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of myself personally, if I was to do a label
Speaker 2: be along that line, you know, very curated. We're not
Speaker 2: you know, pumping out you know, buying a calog of
Speaker 2: fifty titles and pumping them out. We're actually handing films
Speaker 2: that we think are very cool and then we think
Speaker 2: the audiences would would enjoy as well. So yeah, those
Speaker 2: sort of labels sort of really influenced myself. Yeah, just
Speaker 2: just creating a brand that you know, people can have
Speaker 2: all lined up on the shelf and to go, well,
Speaker 2: these are cool movies.
Speaker 1: Well, for anybody that's excited about Rubber's Lover, you can
Speaker 1: buy a bundle on the website now that includes Rubbers
Speaker 1: Lover and Spy number two. And this one is a
Speaker 1: director you might be slightly more familiar with. Tell us
Speaker 1: about your second movie coming out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so the second film is Strange Circus by Sion Sono.
Speaker 2: And this is quite interesting because because the process of
Speaker 2: Rubber's lovel was taking so long, I said, to make it, look,
Speaker 2: we should probably look at getting another film in case
Speaker 2: it all falls apart, because you know, we should probably
Speaker 2: look at getting a second film, or at least a
Speaker 2: backup film. Is a launch title, and so we and
Speaker 2: I was thinking, and there's look, and we've in this
Speaker 2: weird place where there's a lot of films that were
Speaker 2: huge during the DVD era, but they never quite made
Speaker 2: the jump to blu ray and they've they've kind of
Speaker 2: been forgotten. And one of those titles was Strange Circus.
Speaker 2: And Strange Circus was a film that I I remember
Speaker 2: seeing when someone gave me a DVD copy and they
Speaker 2: said this film is pretty extreme. This is like a
Speaker 2: pretty out there film. And I watched I was I
Speaker 2: was blown away by because it was this mystery and
Speaker 2: it's really beautifully shot, and it's well directed and the
Speaker 2: you know, obviously Sono is the master so storytelling, and
Speaker 2: his films are never boring. They just move at a
Speaker 2: rapid pace and and so yeah, so I said, oh,
Speaker 2: you know what I thought, And I was thinking a
Speaker 2: and I was going through a list. I said, you know,
Speaker 2: a strange circause this one. I think there might be
Speaker 2: demand for this film because it's it's quite notorious and
Speaker 2: there's people, you know, there's a YouTuber called Spooky Rice
Speaker 2: that did a video and had like a half a
Speaker 2: million views. So I'm like, why is it, Like, what's
Speaker 2: the deal with this? And so we made contact, we
Speaker 2: found the company that owned it, We made contact, and
Speaker 2: this was probably this is probably about six months ago,
Speaker 2: I'd say, or maybe no, No, it was last year,
Speaker 2: wasn't it middle I'll try to remember, maybe middle middle
Speaker 2: of last year. Maybe I think it was maybe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, strange circus cidic CN. It's the end of the year.
Speaker 2: The end of the year, that's right, Yes, my timelines,
Speaker 2: so yeah. So it was a time that I just said, oh,
Speaker 2: what's going on with this film? And so we made
Speaker 2: some inquiries and we found the right owners and three
Speaker 2: I think April maybe April April or twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: was it? No, it was last year? Last year? Yeah, sorry,
Speaker 2: this is how sorry because the negotiation is such a
Speaker 2: long process, right it was maybe maybe I think it
Speaker 2: was last year. Was last year?
Speaker 1: I mean April was only four months ago, so that
Speaker 1: would be pretty quick company.
Speaker 3: Yeah, last year, last year. Last year we met the
Speaker 3: main person was in April.
Speaker 2: That's right. I was just saying when we started acquiring. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so so it was last year, so early last year,
Speaker 2: and so it reached out and and City. They're an
Speaker 2: interesting company. They produced by Gemini, the film What's that film,
Speaker 2: The Goblin and the other supermodel film as well, so
Speaker 2: they have a really interesting catalog and I saw a
Speaker 2: strange circus on the list. They said, oh, yeah, this
Speaker 2: is the film because I personally love it. So we
Speaker 2: made some inquiries and these guys there are smaller companies,
Speaker 2: so things moved a bit faster, which is great. So
Speaker 2: we had a really good call with them, and we
Speaker 2: had some negotiations and they said, yeah, look we can,
Speaker 2: we can sign you this title, and I said yes,
Speaker 2: So we obviously took the offer and we acquired Strange
Speaker 2: Circus as the next title, and and yeah, so we
Speaker 2: once once we acquired it, we thought, obviously we're looking
Speaker 2: at sort of who could get involved with the release.
Speaker 2: And then we said, I wonder if Seon Sona would
Speaker 2: be interested in doing an interview, because look, he's a
Speaker 2: we won't go into it, but there has been some
Speaker 2: sort of controversy around on we won't we won't discuss
Speaker 2: it once again. I you know, Criterion decided to release
Speaker 2: Rosemary's Baby and have it fully approved by Polansky with
Speaker 2: his extras all over in his commentary, then you know,
Speaker 2: and if imprint the side to a Plansky box, So
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go into it because there's there's
Speaker 2: certain things there we won't comment. So we thought, oh, look,
Speaker 2: we try and separate the art from the artist. New
Speaker 2: wave and what we're trying to do is create a
Speaker 2: package that has I guess, the best set of documentation
Speaker 2: on the film, so people know the history of it,
Speaker 2: the filmmaking and so and so. Yeah, I reached out
Speaker 2: to someone who knew Sono, which was Nicodem and Nikodem
Speaker 2: he worked with a lot of labels in Japan. He
Speaker 2: does a lot of sort of inquiring and sort of
Speaker 2: extras film as well. I said, oh, look, when mister
Speaker 2: Sono be interested in doing an interview, and he said, oh, look,
Speaker 2: I can check because obviously Sono is a bit private
Speaker 2: right now, but I can check for you. And so
Speaker 2: so he said, look, even if we don't get so
Speaker 2: we've got the film, you know, we're going to release it,
Speaker 2: We'll get some extras done. And then Suzanne was was
Speaker 2: a big fan of the film as well. So I said,
Speaker 2: do you want to do an essau? Yeah? Absolutely, so
Speaker 2: we can't do in the extras, And then we got
Speaker 2: the word back, hey, yes, actually Sona was interested in
Speaker 2: being involved with the whole and to us, look, I
Speaker 2: mean that's you know, it's it's huge for me personally,
Speaker 2: because you know, Sono was a massive influence to me
Speaker 2: growing up. His films like stal Cyclic, you Love Exposure,
Speaker 2: these big sort of tempole films just kind of like epics, yeah, epics,
Speaker 2: and and yeah, he was like there's there's Mika, and
Speaker 2: there's Sono and he's he's up there, like he's one
Speaker 2: of the greats, Like you know, he's one of the
Speaker 2: great filmmakers, and so it would be an honor to
Speaker 2: have a son A film in a catalog and so
Speaker 2: we and that's how we sort of acquired the film
Speaker 2: and and yeah, and then Sono did an interview for us,
Speaker 2: which was which was quite quite quite amazing because we
Speaker 2: didn't think we'd get the interview, but we ended up
Speaker 2: getting it. And then obviously he also approved the release too.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's a good one. So it's a
Speaker 2: very the film. How would you describe its kind of
Speaker 2: a quite a shocking, not any kind of mystery.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of a mystery and trauma. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah that's right, yeah, sort.
Speaker 2: Of a yeah, it feels it's it unfolds an interesting film,
Speaker 2: Like yeah, I recommend it's a hard hitting film. And
Speaker 2: and once again it kind of goes back to our mission.
Speaker 2: We're kind of trying to acquire sort of hard hitting
Speaker 2: films that quite controversial because, like I said, I love
Speaker 2: sort of extreme cinema, but I say the words cinema
Speaker 2: not there are these sort of movies that are shot
Speaker 2: in bathrooms on phones, I know, like actual movie like Cinema,
Speaker 2: so like really like films like Martyrs, you know, one
Speaker 2: of my all time favorites. Wow, So I like extremes,
Speaker 2: and so we're trying to get to the heart hitting
Speaker 2: titles and Stranger because it's definitely one of those real,
Speaker 2: you know, impact films that that you know, it'll stick
Speaker 2: with you for a while after you see it, you
Speaker 2: definitely won't forget it. So we, yeah, we want it
Speaker 2: to get that as our second release. And by the
Speaker 2: time all the contracts and negotiation was done, Rubber's Lover
Speaker 2: was done, so kind of we pair them together kind
Speaker 2: of made sense just to release them at the same time.
Speaker 1: It is so so neat to see a label come
Speaker 1: out with two titles that are sot after that are rare,
Speaker 1: that are hard hitting, and that everybody has to sort
Speaker 1: of immediately be I don't know, like on their on
Speaker 1: their toes and validate you as a label, because it's
Speaker 1: not just something easy. You are You were putting something
Speaker 1: out there that took a lot of work, took a
Speaker 1: lot of balls, took a lot of just really saying,
Speaker 1: you know what we're really going for it, and that
Speaker 1: is that is a bold choice and based to what
Speaker 1: you're saying, It sounds like that's kind of the whole
Speaker 1: point of the label. Am I hearing that right? That
Speaker 1: that is kind of what you're always going to.
Speaker 2: Do, absolutely, and sort of our thing is is first
Speaker 2: time on Blu Ray as well. That's sort of our
Speaker 2: sort of mission as well, well, first of first sort
Speaker 2: of release. And like I said, it's exactly that it's
Speaker 2: rescuing these films because that's limbo. I don't think anyone
Speaker 2: else wants to touch them, to be honest, like so,
Speaker 2: so yeah, that's that's exactly it kind of rescuing these
Speaker 2: these films and and you're kind of giving them the
Speaker 2: definitive release as possible. But yeah, absolutely, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of time and effort and and we want to make
Speaker 2: an impact of the first two titles, and like I said,
Speaker 2: we want something that you just hasn't been released you know,
Speaker 2: five times in different territories. Want to make it a
Speaker 2: really special release and that's sort of what we're going for.
Speaker 2: And even the ones in the pipeline are so far
Speaker 2: you know, first time on Blu Ray. So that's sort
Speaker 2: of our goal is to really kind of do that.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of that, your your third spine. You just
Speaker 1: announced that one on social media and blaze of questions
Speaker 1: from everybody immediately, because this is one that has been
Speaker 1: sought after for a long time, and kind of around
Speaker 1: the same time, we have the US company Disco Tech
Speaker 1: working on a very similar type of release, So could
Speaker 1: you tell us what that is, what is on the release,
Speaker 1: and how it will be different from the Disco Tech release.
Speaker 2: Definitely. So yeah, number three we just announced. And the
Speaker 2: reason we didn't want to announce it early but because
Speaker 2: Discotech announced the They're one. We just wanted to just
Speaker 2: get ahead of the curve because obviously, like when Venegas
Speaker 2: Syndrome did the key in pretty year ago, said hey, guys,
Speaker 2: just to let you know, we're doing the keep as well,
Speaker 2: so at least it gives the buyers some options obviously,
Speaker 2: because that's why I love this is a free market,
Speaker 2: and so we we announced it a bit early just
Speaker 2: just to let people know that, Hey, you know, guys,
Speaker 2: just well I said, and don't get me wrong, I
Speaker 2: love Discotheque. I've got all there, like a lot of
Speaker 2: their releases, that the one's really rescuing classic anime and
Speaker 2: so look, you know, all means if you're in the
Speaker 2: US definitely. But our one is is going to be
Speaker 2: a little bit different. I'll explain why. And it's interesting
Speaker 2: because the how we acquired it was the company that
Speaker 2: owns Rubbers Lover owns us I was going to pronounce it.
Speaker 2: That's the correct pronunciation, by the way, because one more time.
Speaker 1: I slaughtered the name on my show last night. So
Speaker 1: thank you so much.
Speaker 2: And yeah, so we we basically we we met the
Speaker 2: company that owns Rubbers Love the women in Japan. We
Speaker 2: went in the office and had negotiations and they said, look,
Speaker 2: we're very happy with what you guys did was a
Speaker 2: restoration of Rubbers Love it. You know, here's our catalog.
Speaker 2: You know, what else are you interested in? And so
Speaker 2: it was an open book thing. We're like, okay, and
Speaker 2: so I kind of I went through. I looked at MAKE.
Speaker 2: I went, I see you guys Ownoski Dot and they said, yeah,
Speaker 2: we own we owned the whole whole series. And I
Speaker 2: looked at Make. I said, oh, I think this is
Speaker 2: this is this, this will be this will be big
Speaker 2: personally myself, this film I saw I think I'm sure
Speaker 2: I read maybe teenage boys saw it when they were younger,
Speaker 2: but when I was in high school. A friend of
Speaker 2: mine gave me the VHS. It did come out in
Speaker 2: Australia on tape VHS, and so someone actually gave me
Speaker 2: a copy of So check out this this this cartoon.
Speaker 2: And I think maybe I was like fourteen or fifteen,
Speaker 2: I can't remember, but I watched and I was just
Speaker 2: like blown away. I was like, wow, this is because
Speaker 2: I never seen anything quite like it. And a lot
Speaker 2: of my friends at high school like, oh that that
Speaker 2: film's like twisted, it's you know, it's it's graphic. And
Speaker 2: obviously when it came out, people just didn't could not
Speaker 2: comprehend it when it came out because obviously this is
Speaker 2: it was made in the eighties, but it didn't get
Speaker 2: sort of wide video releases until the early nineties and
Speaker 2: even theatrical dig get theatrical release in Australia as well,
Speaker 2: which just boggles the mind and so people which is
Speaker 2: shocked by and I was blown away because it was dark,
Speaker 2: it was it was also erotic because I never seen
Speaker 2: something in a cartoon. I was like, why is this,
Speaker 2: Why is what's going on here? This is very unusual,
Speaker 2: and I was like very intrigued by it and violent
Speaker 2: as well. So I ticked all the boxes for me
Speaker 2: as a you know, like a fourteen year old even
Speaker 2: though it was R rated obviously shouldn't been seeing it.
Speaker 2: But uh and so yeah, that that did have an
Speaker 2: impact on me and a lot of people we speak
Speaker 2: to and know they have seen it at some point
Speaker 2: in their life, like they have they do know of it,
Speaker 2: they've heard of it, the notoriety of it, and so
Speaker 2: so I said to make I said, look, this is
Speaker 2: a big title. What we should really go after this
Speaker 2: because I think it's one of the tempole It's up
Speaker 2: there with you know, Wicked City. So that's an eighty
Speaker 2: error of animation, unfortunately does get put into the entire genre.
Speaker 2: But the theatrical version is more it cuts a lot
Speaker 2: of that out. It's more of like a post apocalyptic
Speaker 2: sort of movie. It's a shame because the animation is
Speaker 2: is beautiful. It's it was animated by the best studios
Speaker 2: in Japan under pseudonyms, so the guys Madhouse, who did
Speaker 2: you know, Perfect Blue and that these guys worked on
Speaker 2: you Dicky dogy early on. And so if you watch
Speaker 2: the film, the animation is breathtaking. It's fast motion, it's
Speaker 2: all hand but this is cell based. It's not no
Speaker 2: citys all hand drawing, like hundreds of animators like drawing out.
Speaker 2: So it's so it's a real work of art. And
Speaker 2: that's why when I saw it on the list, I said, oh,
Speaker 2: like this is I knew Disco Tech had they're released coming.
Speaker 2: So I said, look, let's acquire it because I personally
Speaker 2: love this film and I want to I want to
Speaker 2: make it really special. Let's go for it. And so
Speaker 2: we acquired it. But the deal was I said to
Speaker 2: the licenses, I said, look, guys, I want it, but
Speaker 2: I need Disco Tech's master. I can't accept the video
Speaker 2: master because I think in Europe they had to release
Speaker 2: some blue rays that they were just aiop scale. They
Speaker 2: literally took the old video masters horrible, horrible, horrendous, And
Speaker 2: so I said, look, will are quite, but we need this,
Speaker 2: this new two K wrestler. We need this restoration. It's
Speaker 2: part of our deal. And they said, look what, We'll
Speaker 2: speak to Disco Tech and and they were nice enough to,
Speaker 2: you know, give it up, give up the master to us,
Speaker 2: and so we acquired the title. So I guess where
Speaker 2: it differs. Look, we take our time with our releases,
Speaker 2: and obviously we want extras. So we have got people
Speaker 2: working on it doing you know, essays, interviews. We're doing
Speaker 2: a mini documentary as well on the controversy of as well,
Speaker 2: so that included. So we've actually got a local critic,
Speaker 2: Ron Peterson. He saw it in the original theatrical run
Speaker 2: and he has a lot of stories to talk about
Speaker 2: how it played an anime festival and it was quite
Speaker 2: a story and he's going to tell that on camera
Speaker 2: as well. And yeah, we want to make it an
Speaker 2: incredible physical package as well. So obviously it's going to
Speaker 2: be a big box. It's going to have an art book.
Speaker 2: We've got hundreds of pages of sort of character designs
Speaker 2: and concepts and storyboards, so I really want to include
Speaker 2: that as well. And obviously, yeah, like I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 2: it's going to be on fifty gigabyte this. We don't
Speaker 2: use twenty five gig this. We only use twenty fifty
Speaker 2: gig because we want the best compression. And even though
Speaker 2: the sequels are standard DEAF, they're huge, you know, niney
Speaker 2: gig files and they look they look good for for
Speaker 2: like video masters and so so yeah, so so basically
Speaker 2: we will be presenting those in the highest quality bit
Speaker 2: rates spread over a few discs int theyd of just
Speaker 2: crammed on one disk. We're going to try and have
Speaker 2: the best presentation. But over all years, it's just a
Speaker 2: labor of love and it's something that we really want
Speaker 2: to make special. I mean, as you see out there,
Speaker 2: that's an original poster of the Demon over the City,
Speaker 2: got that many years ago. So yeah, it's always been
Speaker 2: a fan favorite. So when New Wave does a release,
Speaker 2: you know that it's going to be extra special. So
Speaker 2: we're going to put in the extra extra mile. And
Speaker 2: they get at some companies they need to you know,
Speaker 2: they need to get out to retail as fast. They
Speaker 2: need to've got a pipeline, they need to work quickly.
Speaker 2: But with us, we take our time, work with the
Speaker 2: filmmakers directors. So yeah, if people are patient, and once
Speaker 2: again I'm not discouraging people from the US release, but
Speaker 2: if they, uh, you know, it's a free market. You
Speaker 2: can get the keep from via vision and get the
Speaker 2: key from a syndrome up to you and so similar
Speaker 2: to us, you can get the film from US. They'll
Speaker 2: get it from the US and our release. I did
Speaker 2: say Region B market because yeah, this will be sort
Speaker 2: of other territories as well. So yeah, we can explain
Speaker 2: a bit more. But yeah, it's going to be like
Speaker 2: we want it to feel like the ultimate addition because
Speaker 2: this is going to be the be all, end all
Speaker 2: for the series, and we know there are fans of it,
Speaker 2: so we want to make it extra special.
Speaker 1: That is basically what I took away from this is
Speaker 1: it's going to be the full package that Disco Tech
Speaker 1: doesn't have. That to get Disco Tech's full package you
Speaker 1: got to buy two different things, which not not a
Speaker 1: huge deal, but if you want it all in one,
Speaker 1: this is the way to get that. You got more
Speaker 1: bonus features, you got better compression, So lots of reasons
Speaker 1: to pick up your release over Disco Tech if you're
Speaker 1: a stickler for the technical side, especially, So I mean,
Speaker 1: this sounds fantastic, I mean, and that's that's just the
Speaker 1: first three releases. All literally all three of these like obscure,
Speaker 1: hard to find, some of them shrouded and received controversy,
Speaker 1: and like so much just rich history behind these titles,
Speaker 1: really great choices. Can we can we get anything about
Speaker 1: what's coming up in the in the future for a
Speaker 1: New Way video?
Speaker 2: Definitely? Yeah, So I was just going to mention as
Speaker 2: well with the compression. So we've partnered with I won't
Speaker 2: say their name, but they do the authoring for Imprint
Speaker 2: as well and Poor Label so and so. So yeah,
Speaker 2: they've been really they're actually authoring the disc right now
Speaker 2: for us, the first two releases, and so they that
Speaker 2: they they're the masters of sort of compression. It's not
Speaker 2: fidelity the emotion or they're they're fantastic, but these guys
Speaker 2: do a lot of work for the local labels and so,
Speaker 2: and they know their stuff. So obviously the bit rates
Speaker 2: it's very important to us, you know, may being quite technical,
Speaker 2: what's kind of importance. So yeah, so so you just
Speaker 2: want to mention that these will be properly authored. Dis
Speaker 2: A's not someone in the garage, you know, burning discs,
Speaker 2: you know, because a lot of people are like these
Speaker 2: burn on demand. No, these are proper press This properly
Speaker 2: authored with going the extra miles, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: mention as well, but they will be well compressed as well,
Speaker 2: because it's very iportant, great in terms of what kind
Speaker 2: of titles. Yes, look, Wimill'm happy to announce number four
Speaker 2: on your show. So number four will be another Sono
Speaker 2: movie and because a lot of his films are stuck
Speaker 2: in Libo, and it will be a two thousand and
Speaker 2: five film called Nordico's Dinner Table. And and that is
Speaker 2: a film. It's actually the Suicide Club prequel. And look,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, our opinion, we think it's it's better
Speaker 2: than Silicide Club. It's it's a real like son I
Speaker 2: had really mastered as skill as a filmmaker, and and
Speaker 2: it's it's an incredible film and one that I've been
Speaker 2: looking at a lot of groups and forums and people
Speaker 2: like where's Noriko, where's Norwiko. So we met with the
Speaker 2: licenser in Japan. We went out to dinner with them
Speaker 2: and and yeah they were lovely, really nice people.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, very super causual and then like you know,
Speaker 3: we had a drink and like yeah, when to your
Speaker 3: bar to then as.
Speaker 2: We yes, yeah yeah. And so what opened the door
Speaker 2: was we because it went out and we met these
Speaker 2: licensells who owned a lot of so films and basically
Speaker 2: we and then Nickodyin was there as well, and he said, oh,
Speaker 2: look I'll try and get Sono out and he said, oh, no, pressure,
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to come out and then he showed up,
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, and so so and then we were
Speaker 2: you know, we went out that night drinking with Sono
Speaker 2: and the license or and we we were just like,
Speaker 2: you know, is this really happening. So it's yeah, it's
Speaker 2: kind of like you know, because because like I've always
Speaker 2: admired this filmmaking, the fact we're drinking with them at
Speaker 2: the bar, talking about us films, going into depth and details,
Speaker 2: and also getting his approval like do you want these
Speaker 2: two together? Do you want this separate? How do you
Speaker 2: want to do this? And do you approve his artwork?
Speaker 2: So so it was just kind of surreal and so
Speaker 2: and so, yeah, we struck up a good relationship with
Speaker 2: those licenses as well. So Noriko Dinner Table is a
Speaker 2: part of that, another son of film. So we want
Speaker 2: to rescue Sono and once again art from the artists.
Speaker 2: We just want to put the films out and it's
Speaker 2: up to your choice if you want to purchase or not.
Speaker 2: You don't have to, but yeah, we want to give
Speaker 2: people the option at least make these films available and
Speaker 2: not bury them. Because yeah, because no Conner Table is Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's when I first saw it, it really had a
Speaker 2: big sort of emotional impact on me. It's it's a
Speaker 2: very yeah, it's a very emotional film. It's it's yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't wait for people to see it. And they
Speaker 2: did send us the negative to it as well, so
Speaker 2: I've got it right here, I can show it office negative,
Speaker 2: so yes, and so this is the yeah literally just
Speaker 2: said naughtyko yeah yeah in Japanese. Yes, yeah, naughty coats
Speaker 2: down table. So so yeah, so I've got this. So
Speaker 2: these they shipped it over, we got it FedEx and
Speaker 2: it's always very nerve wracking to have a negative in
Speaker 2: the post. So this is gone. It's it's gone essentially,
Speaker 2: that's it. And so yeah, we will be restoring this.
Speaker 2: This is the yeahs iry and people under it negative
Speaker 2: looks like this is just real one of ten. It's
Speaker 2: a long film. It's it's two and a half hours,
Speaker 2: so this is one of ten reels. So yeah, so
Speaker 2: we'll be releasing that. We'll give it the special treatment
Speaker 2: and then once again we'll give so the deluxe treatment
Speaker 2: as well. The interesting thing about Norico, it was people
Speaker 2: wondering it was Karli Wolf Creek. It was shot digitally,
Speaker 2: but then it was transferred to film, so so because
Speaker 2: back in two thousand and five, cinemas have not quite
Speaker 2: made the jump to digitally yet and so essentially, yeah,
Speaker 2: this film was shot digitally, but then they transferred it
Speaker 2: to film. So what we're doing is restoring the negative
Speaker 2: the film negatives. It's going to get as the best
Speaker 2: possible element we could get. So yeah, we're very we're
Speaker 2: very excited to see how it looks like. And Ray
Speaker 2: is currently restoring it right now.
Speaker 1: This is I mean, the first four titles are like
Speaker 1: long sought after stuff that people just could not get
Speaker 1: and you somehow got through the door and got it
Speaker 1: in that that's got to feel really great to get
Speaker 1: those out of the way and literally have the foundation
Speaker 1: of the company b be these like monumental achievements to
Speaker 1: be able to put out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yeah we yeah, so like I said, they were,
Speaker 2: we were a bit ambitious and we persisted. But thanks
Speaker 2: to some negotiating and yourself obviously negotiating to being very
Speaker 2: patient your.
Speaker 3: Taste of movies, like you're really super taku. So yeah,
Speaker 3: quite surprised that. Yeah, he has a lot of knowledges
Speaker 3: and that ee for all movies, is it correct, like
Speaker 3: movies like you know, I'm a more I like mainstream,
Speaker 3: you know. So that's why he brings a lot of
Speaker 3: movies which I haven't seen it, even Japanese films. So yeah,
Speaker 3: of surprise, Yeah surprising.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so but yeah, because I knew, I guess I
Speaker 2: knew these are big titles that you like. And that's
Speaker 2: the thing I'm thinking as a collector's mind, these are
Speaker 2: things I want to see, like like where are they?
Speaker 2: That's why, and this is how I want to treat it.
Speaker 2: So it's coming very much from a collector's mind frame
Speaker 2: of like how we kind of want to see these releases.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so we hope that these are big, hard
Speaker 2: hitting titles out of the gate, just to kind of
Speaker 2: show that, you know, we're here to continue and work
Speaker 2: on films that we love and give them the treatment
Speaker 2: they deserve. But look, we are exploring other options as well.
Speaker 2: There are certain films we're looking at that wouldn't suit
Speaker 2: new Wave. They're more sort of I guess, more sort
Speaker 2: of art house, like one of your We can't reveal
Speaker 2: the title. We're in negotiations for another title, but it
Speaker 2: definitely wouldn't fit on New Wave. That movie you like, Yeah.
Speaker 3: New Wave is more for like extreme like horror genre genre,
Speaker 3: but in the meantime, like we want to launch a
Speaker 3: side label for more like mainstream or like a drama
Speaker 3: or peaceful movies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which I more you know, I like, well there's yeah,
Speaker 2: because don't understate you know, Maker you've has a has
Speaker 2: a great knowledge of Japanese films, I guess sort of
Speaker 2: more sort of uh drama and coming of age films
Speaker 2: and sort of like really great, like she brought some
Speaker 2: of my attention. I watched them, like wow, this is
Speaker 2: this is incredible, and so a film actually in negotiations
Speaker 2: for right now. But once again, we'll not fit in
Speaker 2: a new way that you know, the person buying that
Speaker 2: won't be buying this, or maybe they will. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're open. So we're thinking like Terror Vision
Speaker 2: have their grave faceline, very similar, we might do something
Speaker 2: like that where it's more sort of indie films, sort
Speaker 2: of like a Japanese sort of I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So so like I said that, they're fantastic films, but
Speaker 2: obviously Maker has a great knowledge about that sort of
Speaker 2: those sort of nineties two thousand sort of Japanese films
Speaker 2: I've never heard of, which are wonderful, just wonderful kind
Speaker 2: of like it's like like Karnie, you do like these
Speaker 2: wonderful cut Yeah, nice, nice sort of movie. So there's
Speaker 2: stuff like that that we would love to release. Once again,
Speaker 2: it just does not fit with New Waves, so we
Speaker 2: we are and that would be more maker, would be
Speaker 2: creating that line, the the sort of more peaceful films.
Speaker 3: Yeah, now we're thinking about the name or new like
Speaker 3: I said, the label, but more like really to the
Speaker 3: new waves a bit like a beach theme something yeah,
Speaker 3: yea or yeah, but still all yeah.
Speaker 2: It hasn't come yet. We think yeah and looking and
Speaker 2: we're in and look at not the say too much,
Speaker 2: but we're in negotiations with for some titles that would
Speaker 2: take us to barian levels. There are times that we're
Speaker 2: you know inspiring about that are you know classics as well,
Speaker 2: So we're very Yeah, I don't want to say too much,
Speaker 2: but like I said, it's just negotiations, nothing solid, but
Speaker 2: we definitely want to try and get more you know,
Speaker 2: into into sort of like the tastiest new waves, like
Speaker 2: so Japanese new wave as well, so the seventies and sixties.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that that's stuff we're looking at as well.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we definitely want to branch out a bit,
Speaker 2: obviously from the hard hitting genre stuff. And also obviously
Speaker 2: I guess we're folks in Japanese because it's what we know,
Speaker 2: we love, you know, we've we know the culture. I've
Speaker 2: worked in Japan, same with obviously makers from Japan. So
Speaker 2: so I guess it's comfortable with right now. But we
Speaker 2: are the possibility of branching out to you know, one
Speaker 2: of our friends, you know, William, he's actually from Hong
Speaker 2: Kong originally, he lives in Australia's he speaks Cantonese. So
Speaker 2: he's showing us the idea of what about sort of
Speaker 2: Hong Kong films. I'm like, yeah, look, I mean that's
Speaker 2: a possibility as well, because there's a lot of great
Speaker 2: Hong Kong movies. But once again, Japanese will be sort
Speaker 2: of out bread and butter. But there is possibility of
Speaker 2: Hong Kong later on, maybe as later on down the truck.
Speaker 1: Very interesting there are Man, We're going to have to
Speaker 1: talk after I pressed up because I've got a long
Speaker 1: list of titles that I want to throw at you.
Speaker 1: There is so much happening with all I mean I've
Speaker 1: covered on my show a couple times, how in the
Speaker 1: last year year and a half, I did an active
Speaker 1: number of boutique labels count about a year and a
Speaker 1: half ago, and around then there was about one hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty active boutique Blu Ray labels that were you know,
Speaker 1: they weren't doing like five a month, but they were
Speaker 1: doing at least one or two a year, so that
Speaker 1: there are they're actively working towards things. And yet so
Speaker 1: many people are thinking that some of these companies are
Speaker 1: going to run out of titles, and yet there are
Speaker 1: corners of this world that have literally never had stones
Speaker 1: unturned that if you just put in the work and
Speaker 1: you get these major titles, suddenly you could be like
Speaker 1: a major player in the scene here. And that is exciting.
Speaker 2: It is yeah, definitely is it just yeah, like just
Speaker 2: if you put your mind to it, you never know,
Speaker 2: like I said, just and you know, it's just just
Speaker 2: obviously just a process. Be persistent, go after it. You
Speaker 2: like I said, they can turn you down, but it's
Speaker 2: worth just doing a shot. We're trying, and so that's
Speaker 2: why we were going out the styles and we were
Speaker 2: getting them and we were like, oh wow, okay, so
Speaker 2: because I thought we'd definitely get knocked back on one
Speaker 2: or two of them, but it was like, oh wow,
Speaker 2: so so I guess, and once again it's just how
Speaker 2: hey present yourself. And but yeah, I think there's plenty
Speaker 2: of opportunity, plenty of films that need to be rescued
Speaker 2: as well. Definitely kind of stuck in limbo, and so yeah,
Speaker 2: there's it's great to hear, and it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: an incredible time because there's so many and like on
Speaker 2: your obviously your page, there's always stumping it out daily
Speaker 2: and it's just like it truly is the golden age
Speaker 2: of physical media right now.
Speaker 1: That note, I would love to hear. What has the
Speaker 1: response been, Like, you just got two titles put up
Speaker 1: for pre order, you saw the bundles available, you got
Speaker 1: a shirt available. How's everybody responding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look very positively. We were quite shocked the orders
Speaker 2: were coming in. Look, it's been good, it's been good.
Speaker 2: I think obviously, being new label, I would be the same.
Speaker 2: I'd be sort of on the sideline, just waiting to
Speaker 2: obviously get them in hand and then I make my purchase.
Speaker 2: So I completely understand there's probably some people just waiting.
Speaker 2: But it's been very positive. We've had great reception from
Speaker 2: around the world. People super positive about the releases. Obviously
Speaker 2: Mako handles the social media, so has that been a
Speaker 2: bit overwhelming A lot.
Speaker 3: Of the Yeah, like Earlie day, also at night, like
Speaker 3: you know, Pimp Pin and then new Floors and like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, we cannot sleep. But even while we're working,
Speaker 3: like you know, many worries.
Speaker 2: Yes, but still yeah, on the side, the phone keeps going. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's good.
Speaker 1: It's a good problem to have.
Speaker 2: At least it is. It is, Yeah, and I think yeah,
Speaker 2: and even since yesterday, since we announced Doji, that really
Speaker 2: kind of just went off and so we've just been
Speaker 2: having like being shared around the world and we've just
Speaker 2: been having a lot of messages and people inquiring. So
Speaker 2: so yeah, so you're working over time on the social
Speaker 2: media now, having to respond to everyone.
Speaker 3: Yeah, actually you do. But also I yeah, I do
Speaker 3: try not to like skip someone's comments and tried to
Speaker 3: respond to.
Speaker 2: All you know, Yes, we try and respond to everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 2: who plays the comment, Yeah, just just so we're engaged
Speaker 2: with them as well, the fan base. But yeah, it's
Speaker 2: been very positive and people are you know, we just
Speaker 2: can't wait till people have in their hands. I mean,
Speaker 2: we look and we did a pre order just because look,
Speaker 2: obviously it's people may may obviously know, but it's very
Speaker 2: expensive to manufacture. To get every order like it, it's
Speaker 2: a very expensive process. And then obviously we've paid for
Speaker 2: the restoration and the just costs that up and so look,
Speaker 2: we could have sort of paid for it upfront, but
Speaker 2: we thought, look, the pre orders really help. It really
Speaker 2: helps us, like get the business, get the cash flow going,
Speaker 2: so we can obviously get them in hand a lot faster,
Speaker 2: and so so we appreciate everyone who's ordered directly. It
Speaker 2: really means a lot because obviously that support helps us
Speaker 2: to obviously get the initial releases and then and once
Speaker 2: again we're not it's a real passion project for us.
Speaker 2: We're not going to be a millionaires of this because
Speaker 2: obviously everything we make from it goes right back into restoration,
Speaker 2: into buying new films, into the manufacturing, into artwork. So
Speaker 2: obviously all the costs that up, and so we're very
Speaker 2: happy to break even and then obviously make a bit more.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so the response has been great, So all
Speaker 2: those people who've trusted us with the pre orders, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: So we've sold about I can say now in terms
Speaker 2: of stock levels about twenty five percent, which is which
Speaker 2: is great. Look, I mean we would have been happy
Speaker 2: with ten percent. So we've had a really good response.
Speaker 2: And once again that's just from us, and I can
Speaker 2: say on the show, I know there's a lot of
Speaker 2: people that are inquiring about, Hey, you know what about
Speaker 2: Diabolic or other retailers. Yes, so if you please be patient,
Speaker 2: we have signed with a distributor and they have all
Speaker 2: the relationships with all the sort of indie boutique sort
Speaker 2: of retailers. So hopefully you'll see our titles showing up
Speaker 2: very soon on their websites as well, so if you
Speaker 2: they're locally, you can pick it up on them as well.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's the support's been overwhelming and where we
Speaker 2: really appreciate it from everyone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's already happening. They're out there and at least
Speaker 1: a couple of the retailers here in the US. Now,
Speaker 1: I know some people on my discord got real excited,
Speaker 1: went and pre ordered pretty much immediately. This is so
Speaker 1: cool to see somebody that I've known and respected for
Speaker 1: so long be able to do something like this, and
Speaker 1: this is just one of many things. I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got the Imprint cast going on that you're still very
Speaker 1: active on. Obviously, before we call it a day on
Speaker 1: the interview here, I got to ask you mentioned Ankorbay earlier,
Speaker 1: what's going on with the documentary because I know a
Speaker 1: lot of us are dying to see that documentary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously it's still still happening. There was some delays. Look,
Speaker 2: we interviewed the main people we wanted, but we how
Speaker 2: should I say this week? It was all guys we interviewed.
Speaker 2: It was a real sort of a lot of guys talking,
Speaker 2: a lot of yeah, a lot of.
Speaker 1: Sasage first, I get it.
Speaker 2: Yes, we really needed some like female Ancabay employees to
Speaker 2: really balance the documentary because interesting thing about Ankabay it
Speaker 2: was run by women. Essentially they were head of marketing,
Speaker 2: head of horror. A lot of them are quite obviously
Speaker 2: they're a little bit shy, the obviously don't want to
Speaker 2: tell their stories. But we were able to track down
Speaker 2: three ladies that worked at Ankabay and we will be
Speaker 2: interviewing them. Actually, Michael Felcher is actually going to go
Speaker 2: out and interview them and once we've got them. We're done.
Speaker 2: We're done because I did that balance, that sort of
Speaker 2: female balance, because like I said, we want to know
Speaker 2: more about you know, the women who ran the company,
Speaker 2: like that culture. But yeah, the Ancube Doctor is still coming.
Speaker 2: Danny is editing it, working on it day and night,
Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll have an update in the next month
Speaker 2: or so. But yeah, it's been a long process, but
Speaker 2: it's something that we we're very passionate about as well,
Speaker 2: and there's been a real interest uniting in Ncubey. I
Speaker 2: know that obviously there's an Ancabay podcast that's kind of started.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we're very keen to get that documentary out
Speaker 2: there because there's some great stories. You know, We've got
Speaker 2: Bruce Campbell, William Lustig, so some really big names as well,
Speaker 2: and so there's a passion project. And and I forget
Speaker 2: Danny credit because Danny did help me as well with
Speaker 2: getting the label our label obviously a New Way launch
Speaker 2: because he he is involved with Crawford's and he's behind
Speaker 2: all their DVD and sort of Blu ray releases. They
Speaker 2: do a lot of TV shows, so he really helped
Speaker 2: me with the logistics of you know, speak to these
Speaker 2: people they do the manufacturing blah blah blah. So I
Speaker 2: have Danny credit. It was a massive help in getting
Speaker 2: us from to the manufacturing stage. But yeah, so we're
Speaker 2: still coming, aiming for late this year at the worst,
Speaker 2: maybe early twenty twenty six. But the first trailer should drop,
Speaker 2: so once we get those ladies interviewed, we can we can, yeah,
Speaker 2: finally get it out there. So we're we're very excited.
Speaker 2: So thank you for being patient with us. But I guess,
Speaker 2: as is the case, documentaries do take a while. We
Speaker 2: were hoping to rush to get out a lot quicker,
Speaker 2: but yeah, just we need those those crucial interviews and
Speaker 2: hopefully next week Michael's going to go interview them, so
Speaker 2: we should be done. So yeah, it'll be coming soon.
Speaker 2: And I think even you've been asking what's going on
Speaker 2: the documentary?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, you're working on that documentary. Now.
Speaker 1: This is this is so great again, very very happy
Speaker 1: for your congratulations on all the success. Proud to see
Speaker 1: all the moves you've made over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: It's just exciting. The future is quite great for New
Speaker 1: Way Video and both of you. This is amazing.
Speaker 2: No, I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we just hope that people enjoy check them out,
Speaker 2: you know, and hopefully, and like I said, we're acquiring
Speaker 2: titles that we think are yeah, some of the masterpieces,
Speaker 2: like in our opinion, So you know, if people just
Speaker 2: give them a chance, then enjoy it. Like I said,
Speaker 2: once again, they're hard hitting, they're extreme. Like I said,
Speaker 2: we never intended to, I guess sort of be an
Speaker 2: extreme label. But I guess the films we are acquiring,
Speaker 2: I guess are extreme to a degree. So so like
Speaker 2: something like you know, we didn't want to maybe like
Speaker 2: Unearthed or something. We weren't really going for that, but
Speaker 2: I guess the titles that we're going are sort of
Speaker 2: like that. But yeah, like I said, if you just
Speaker 2: give them a go, there controversial, hard hitting, but just
Speaker 2: just wonderful, wonderful films and films of cinema.
Speaker 1: Incredible links for everything or in the description below you
Speaker 1: can pick up from New Way Video Now pre order those.
Speaker 1: When is the bundle shipping again here in the next
Speaker 1: couple of months, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Aimy for mid October. So Alex who he's doing
Speaker 2: our shirt. He's a he's a great guy. Like I've
Speaker 2: known Alex for a while he usually goes to sort
Speaker 2: of conventions and sells really sort of cool punk shirts
Speaker 2: based on horror movies. And I said, oh, you filmcoming Rubbers.
Speaker 2: It's it's very it's black and white, it's punk. He's
Speaker 2: I'll do it. So he's done a really cool t shirts.
Speaker 2: He can get the bundle as well. Yea, and yeah,
Speaker 2: we're shipping them all out mid October. And and that
Speaker 2: shirt is a limited edition, so once we close the
Speaker 2: pre orders then that's sort of bit. So if you
Speaker 2: want the shirt, I advise you get on it because
Speaker 2: it is a limited run.
Speaker 1: Good good choice. Yeah, this is great. I'll link the
Speaker 1: imprint cast below. I'll link all the social media for
Speaker 1: new wave videos so you can stay up to date.
Speaker 1: And of course I'll cover every single thing you do
Speaker 1: because I'm just excited about it. So you know, I'll
Speaker 1: be here sharing the word. So thank you both for
Speaker 1: your time. This has been just an absolute delight.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having nice Thank you Eran
Speaker 2: really appreciate it.
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