2023 HAUL VER 9.7
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Final item of the month and the first item of next month will likely have photos taken during the weekend as we are approaching darker hours.
I noticed on the Blu-ray forum there had been some more discounts at the usual prices for a few of Criterion's big boxsets and for
Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman I had noticed something unusual, a retailer offering the price for far lower than Amazon's discount. Now this price isn't as low as what others have gotten through the first batch super discount of 2018 or via the Zoom store, but given the circumstances of various Criterion titles going out of stock/print I decided now was a good time more than never.
And it was genuine! This is a 25 film box set across 9 Blu-ray discs collecting various films directed by Kenji Misumi, Kazuo Mori, Tokuzo Tanaka, Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Kazuo Ikehiro, Akira Inoue, Satsuo Yamamoto, Kihachi Okamoto, and Shintaro Katsu. The box set is presented similarly to the Shawscope box sets which use a digibook to house the discs.
Both the digibook and book are hardcover and honestly for the price this is a pretty nice offering. The artwork is really nice and while the main box spine doesn't have the title on it, the digibook side does. It's also smaller than I had estimated.
In terms of what to expect for the October haul, there'll be a lot of Rightstuf orders planned as we approach the end of their run. I'll call it the 'Farewell to Space Irresponsible Captain Rightstuf' haul.