A Look At The Complete MPD Psycho Box Set
BCI's collected box set of the complete MPD Psycho mini series is due for release next week and a copy arrived unbidden in my mailbox today. After giving it a quick perusal let me say that if you're a Miike fan who held off on the individual releases of this for some reason you made a very wise choice. Here's the skinny.
The DVDs themselves appear to be identical to the individual releases, picture quality is very good, each disc containing two episodes of the six episode series with the original Japanese audio and excellent English subtitles. A fourth disc includes a good assortment of bonus features: cast and crew interviews, five behind the scenes effects reels, the Lolita-c animations, TV promos and episode previews, a music video, shooting tests and an alternate opening. No, the uncensored footage is not here despite BCI's best attempts to get it: word is the source footage no longer exists. This edition packages the discs in three slimline cases - the bonus disc rides shotgun in the third case - with the trio then packaged in an attractive cardboard slipcase. While I've not seen the individually released third volume to confirm this myself, all the listings I've seen say that it is a single disc release which means the extra feature disc is exclusive to this set. But that's not why you've been wise to wait. That is because this set is priced just a few bucks more than any of the single volume releases, meaning buying this set gets you the entire miniseries for just slightly more than a third of what you'd spend buying the individual volumes. Nice. And yes, it's very much worth the price ...
Check my detailed review of volume one here.
MPD Psycho Complete Collection on Amazon
