Gojira14 Jun 14, 2016 @ dkelly26666, I was lucky enough to get Artificial Eye Mizoguchi box and the Eureka! Late Mizoguchi set when it came out (and now sells for ri-dunk-ulous prices), and was buying Arrow releases before they broke into the US. The neat thing about Arrow is that most of their extras are proprietary, so I don't mind when the same title (e.g. "Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai", "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" '79) gets released here, as the extras will be quite different. Even the mastering from two different companies can be miles apart - compare the "Lady Snowblood" films as released by Arrow in UK and Criterion here.



All-region also allows us to complete collections with titles unavailable here indefinitely:

Japan has "Deepstar Six" and "Memoirs of an Invisible Man", and the only Blu-ray version of the longer cut of "The Last Emperor" (stunning!).

Australia's got "Razorback" and "The Beastmaster" among others

Germany loooves genre and foreign films (picked up the "Reefer Madness" musical, "Bloodrayne" cuz I'm a glutton for punishment, "Mr. Baseball", "Runaway", "The Ramen Girl")

Thailand released Christophe Gans' "Beauty and the Beast" with English subtitles

France has been releasing Universal's classic horror sequels on Blu and Germany's done the same with Universal's '50's sci-fi films, although with varying degrees of success in the masters

Korea puts out gorgeous box sets of Fortune Star's Hong Kong library of classic John Woo, Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat, etc. classics, usually limited to 777 copies, including postcards and other extras

UK has steadily been releasing, through multiple labels, the classic Hammer horror films we all love

... the list goes on and on. It seems silly for the serious collector NOT to make the All-region investment.