Interview with new Australian Boutique Blu-ray Label- NEW WAVE VIDEO! Rubber's Lover, Strange Circus

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Hello there, and welcome back to the disc connected here
with perhaps the youngest boutique blu ray label in the
world at the moment, considering we don't even have our
first release in hand yet, but I want to give
you all of the information possible with New Way Video. Here,
we've got John who you might recognize has been on
the channel before. John is a part of the Imprint

(00:30):
podcast and a few other things, the Indicator Cast, and
he's been a part of the awards show that I
do and some other stuff. Well we'll talk about one
of the other exciting things coming up to but John's
partner my echoes here as well. Welcome, thanks for coming.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
On, Thank you for having us fat New.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Way Video before I ask all the deep stuff behind it.
What is New Way Video? What you what are you
giving your elevator pitch as nowadays?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
Yes, a New Way Video is. Like I said, it's
a label that's focused on genre titles, particularly Asian genre titles.
So we're really going after the obscure, forgotten films, films
that we personally love as well that just haven't been
given that sort of special treatment, and films have lost
in limbo. So I guess our main mission is to
sort of rescue Asian films, particularly like I said, hard

(01:19):
hitting genre films and sort of titles that we're big
in that day but have essentially been forgotten and not
because of any sort of issues with the film, just
because of the rights issues or things that have happened
over the years. So our main goal is to just
present some of the most you know, controversial or you know,
I guess, how shall we say outstanding or and like

(01:41):
I said, in terms of critically claimed as well films
in the Asian line, and obviously we're we're focusing on
Japanese right now, but sort of our goal is to
get these films back out to the public in very
nice special editions.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
It is exciting to see, you know, you've announced three
of your titles so far, and every single one. I've
seen many people, especially spying three and we're going to
get into all of these, but many people responding with,
oh my gosh, I've been looking for this for years
and here you are delivering it to the people of
Australia and kind of secretly the rest of the world

(02:14):
that are going to fall in love with you quickly.
This is amazing. One thing that's obvious is you've got
a partnership here. How is it running things behind the
scenes as a couple.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Yeah, so we both have our own roles and it's
a really good sort of ying. And Yang, I guess
obviously Makos originally from Japan, so we have that advantage.
Maker works very closely with the license sows, the sales contracts,
the filmmakers. Yeah, and myself, I'm more on the I guess,
the production side, sort of picking the films, working with

(02:47):
the special feature and extras, producers, manufacturing. So it's a
really good sort of balance. But yeah, and it worked
well for us because dealing with Japanese license sows is
a real art form. And Make explained that the sales
process Japanese is quite a.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's quite like a long pulsus, like maybe the lot
of steps right, yes, to get the deal. So yeah,
we take you know, time and then you know bucking
pores and background purse, so we need a bit patient.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes, Yeah, and that's the thing. And some of the
films we've released is once again not because like I
said I said earlier, it's just some of the US
companies may have just given up after like you know,
maybe two emails no one responded. They use Google Translate.
They're getting frustrated. Why do they want respond? And so
you know, Miko knows how to because obviously she comes

(03:42):
from a sales background as well.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
So yeah, I'm working in the educational industry as like
educational consultants, but more like you know, sales, like marketing.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
I know how to talk with people.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
So yeah, I imagine that's super important. Communication is probably
like the number one used skill with with this whole industry.

Speaker 3 (04:02):
For the.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
It is especially Japanese companies.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
Yeah, so we have like you know, a bit different culture,
you know, com bear with Western countries, so that very
especially you know culture, so yes.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
And very like I said, patients, and and you know,
just certain mannerisms as well, like I myself, I spent
hours just practicing the car delivery. So when you because
we obviously met these licenses in Japan, we met them
in person, so there are certain rules. You have to
be very respectful and if you do something wrong in
the meeting, that that's it. The deal could be off
the table. So there's certain steps and I think it's

(04:44):
very interesting and it is a real learning experience. But
thankfully with maker has that great sort of skills for
negotiation as well with the licensees and contracts, so that's
really helpful. And obviously working with the filmmakers too.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, directors, we bigits and directors and you know, we
got the interviews, so yeah, it was a nice experience.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
And also just general communication, like just just keeping them
up to date, what's happening with the release, like obviously
just just keeping them informed. So yeah, so obviously that's
very valuable to the New Wave Obviously brands trying to
get you know, work with the licenses, like I said myself, Yeah,
so more ons of the getting the releases together that
the extras, and obviously you're getting it into production. So

(05:31):
it's like it's a really really good balance we have
sort of between us on that side.

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Yeah. Well we've mentioned that the name new Wave Video
a handful of times already. Why why the name new Wave?
What does that mean to you and the company?

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Actually, I this isn't my idea, yes, because we are
based in Sydney, and then you know, we chose the
name new Wave because Sydney has a lot of like
nice beaches and you know beach vibes.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
So and then like you know, new wave, but there
is another.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
You know.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Reason, like another metaphor like metaphor, Yeah, like we want
to make like an impact in the industry as a newcomer.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah, so wave making waves.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
Yeah, making wave making an impact.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah. So I thought, oh, that is kind of like
a cool name. And I also represents as.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
Like Sydney, we wave the flag for Sydney. Yeah. We
did go through a few names, and it's kind of
hard obviously being a names, so we just kind of
went through and and I thought that was good and
it was available. The name was available, so we kind
of we.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Are actually on the bus, you know, on the way
to the beach maybe a few years ago, and I said, oh,
what about like a new way, Yes, yeah, and that's
the one.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
And like I said, and this hasn't been an overnight thing.
This has been over a year and a half of
planning to get this off the ground. So yeah. So
the name we probably came up with and you know,
probably about maybe two years ago. So yeah, and that
was kind of a spark light ball moment. It's cool.
And we looked up and it was available, and so
we registered it and got a really cool logo design
that kind of I guess shows to the Asian influences

(07:25):
at of like Japanese style as well. Sort of it's cool.
So yeah, so obviously that's that's Mako that came up
with the name. So yeah, we kind of got that
inspiration as a newcomer.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Well, and you bring up the timeline, and that's probably
a good question because I've you know, you and I
know each other. I've known about this for quite some
time at this point, and before then you had a
lot of stuff already leading up to that. What was
what was the start of this? Like, what was that
moment that inspired this to begin?

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, so we've been discussing about starting a label for
a while and it was one of those things where
it's like you've got to have that first title, or
at least acquire a title that that's what gets the
ball rolling. So we weren't looking at various films and
how this all started was actually our last trip to Japan. Sorry,
it was actually was January. It was it twenty twenty four, Yeah,

(08:17):
I think it was. That was the trip for Yeah. Yeah,
so it's been it's been a while. So we're in
Japan and we just thought, oh, maybe we can look
to acquire some films, acquire some films were over here,
and and so a friend of mine said, oh, you know,
there's a director shows in for Kui who did ninety
six four Pinocchio, and I'm a huge fan of that
film and his other film, Robbers Lover. And so I said,

(08:39):
to make a what if we approach shows in and say, hey,
you know your other films not available, could we possibly
put it out? So we we thought about it, and
we said, oh, I don't know what we'll see. So
we went. We went to his bar. We met him,
absolute gentlemen, and you know, we got along like a
house on fire. And she was in He he's a

(09:00):
massive movie fan. His bar is literally filled with movies,
Like he has a wall of Blu rays and he
puts a movie on every night because it's called Yeah.
It's really cool.

Speaker 3 (09:09):
You visited there by yourself? First? I did, yes, yeah,
without me, So you guys.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
Kind of hit it all, kind of yeah, I hit
it off.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
But he don't speak English, you don't understand what you
were saying. But but you guys, movie talk, movie talk, yeah,
movie movie yes, yeah, And then you all yes, you
visited next day by yourself again.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's right. I forgot, yes, sorry, So I went first
just just to see if it really was his bar,
because you know, it could have been let on a
well chase. I went there, I said, ah, and I said,
ChEls him and I'm like, Australia shoot in this, I'm
from Australia. You lost you and she must and and
he said oh. And then I said, oh, nine sixpo pinocchios. Ah.
Because at the time he didn't have any posters or

(10:00):
anything like, you would not know he was the director.
Recently he's really embraced his films, but obviously at the
time I didn't even know. I said that you shols
and something Oh, and I said oh, I said, I'm
a big fan of And he probably thought, who's the
strange guy from Australia in my bar? And I said oh,
And so yes, I did completely forgot. I didn't meet

(10:21):
him first, and then I said to make oh, let's go.
Originally I said we weren't playing to acquire it. It
was just the thing. I said, let's meet shows and
he's a really nice guy. So we went the second night, Yeah,
and I visited Yeah, you came with Yeah again with me.
And then I may have had too many drinks that night,
but I said, oh, and I said, oh, I said,
because Nicey saw Pinocchio just got a blue ray thing

(10:42):
from Media Blasters, And I said, where's Rubber's Lover? Because
I because that's my favorite of his two films, Like
they're both great, but Rubber's Lover it's more edgy, it's
more dark, it's more gory, it's more intense. It feels
more like a Tetsu that I man, I think that's
his master in my opinion, Like they're both great, and
I just I just said, what's going on with that film?

(11:02):
And he said, oh, you know, it's just you know,
we've had some companies in choir, but no one's really
gone through with it. And then I, like I said,
maybe had too many high balls, but I said, oh,
we'll release it, We'll do it. And and and I
think as we got along so well, he sort of
had that trust, like he said, oh, you know, these
good people like they like movies as well, and thankfully
he likes to make it was helping us communicate a

(11:23):
bit better than I could. But that that night we
were just sort of, you know, talking about movies like
the whole night, like David Lynch obviously the influence of him,
you know, Argento and and yeah, and then at the
end of the night pretty much he said, oh look,
I'll add you on Messenger Facebook, and so we added
both of us and they said, we'll start the conversations

(11:44):
about Rubber's lover. And the thing is I thought that
he owned the film, but he didn't. It was actually
owned by a big company, so that leads a whole
whole other story. But but yeah, that was sort of
that that light bulb moment, like this will be the film.
Hasn't got a blue ray, no one's released it, It's
sitting in limbo. The DVD is horrendous. I hate to
say it, but it was literally from it like a

(12:06):
beta master, like it was really washed out. And so
so I said, oh, yeah, this this could be the one.
This could be the title. And so I said, to
make a let's really kind of persist this pursue. This
is our first title, and so yeah, showsn't kind of
opened the door for us on our first release.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Very nice. And when you say no one has released this,
just so people know that no one has released this worldwide,
there's no German release, no Spanish release, no UK release,
no US release, nowhere. So you are the first HD
proper release of Rubber's Lover, and that's by Number one
right direct.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
Yes, there's there's no release because once again the you know,
like I said that the problem was with the elements,
and so we were the one so we I mean,
I can go into that story a bit more down please,
So so yeah, so basically we so I said, oh great,
you know, we'll deal with shows in we'll we'll get
the movie from him, we'll restore it. And he said, no, no, no, sorry,

(13:04):
it's actually owned by, like I said, this company, and
we oh, okay, and we checked the company. It's this huge,
publicly traded, massive you know corporation. Oh no. And so,
because we thought it'd be an easy deal at the bar,
you know, signed the contract. So and so negotiations began.
And this is where maker comes into place, because dealing
with Japanese companies, like I said, it's a it's a

(13:26):
very slow process. And negotiations began in February twenty twenty four.
It went for a year, and so obviously we were
going back and forth, back and forth, and obviously in Japan.
It's very committee based, so they have to go back
to the board, get it approval, come back to us.
It's not like America, but it's like, yeah, do it,
here's the contractlet's boombo boom. It's so it's very much
a step by step process and so and so, after

(13:49):
months and months of negotiations, we found it. We said,
they said, yep, look what we can sign you the film.
It's all good. Let us check the elements. Oh cool,
And they came back they said, oh, we don't have anything.
We've got a We've got like a beta master. How's that.
We said, we need the elements and we spoke the
shows and he said they have to have it. Like
we gave them everything they have to have. The negative

(14:09):
they have to have. And so basically we went back
and said can you please search and they said yeah, sure,
and they looked at oh, yeah, we've got the negatives. Yes, great,
so and so I know and then we saw okay, great,
So they're going to scan it. They're gonna do everything
like no, no, no, you guys are going to do it.
So and we're like, okay, so so our first film
so already like because because a lot of people. They

(14:31):
do their first film, they sign a film master's done,
they give them the file. It's ready to go. But
this was a real learning curve because we had to
now restore a negative from scratch and so and so.
Then more months passed by, and then obviously we're dealing
with insurance shipping, and then finally we get the negatives
sent to us and we begin the restoration. So, look,

(14:53):
it wasn't that first negative was.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
The different that we expected.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yes, and even more problems. So they ship us the
negative and we take it to the restoration place and
the guy scans it goes through, guys, this is sound,
this is not video, and we're like, oh my god.
So we go back to them, that's right. I forgot
about that and they said, oh, yeah, look we have
and they said oh really, and they said, yes, you
have to have the picture. It has to be there.
And they certainly said, oh, here it is. We found

(15:21):
the picture negative and they so just delayed the processing more.
So there was a real learning curve, like a bunch
of mishaps, but we finally got through in the end.
Once again, this was a year process of negotiating, working
with them, working with a contract and once again just patience,
extreme patience, and we knew in the end it would
be worth it because we'll get a film that obviously
no one else has released, like you said on Blu Ray.

(15:43):
But obviously the process we have to go through, you know,
is what what was required in order for us to
do that. So yeah, it's a bit of a real
learning curve.

Speaker 1 (15:52):
That's that's a lot that's got to be intimidating for
your first title and have them not only the long
negotiation process, but then have so many setbacks, and it
seems like lately with a lot of these very new
labels that tends to happen. I don't know what it is,
but it's like an initiation process or something. So good
job you made it past it. Congrats, I think so.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
I think it was, but it was it was good because,
like I said, yeah, it was a real initiation process
because everything that could go wrong did go wrong, and
it was great because now we know for future what
to do. And then the thing was like how do
we get this scanned? And so that was another learning
process and so I asked around in a good I'm
sure he won't mind me dropping his name. James from

(16:34):
Carmellion Films. They obviously run that really cool Asian Britique
label Melbourne. And so I've been friends with him for
a while and so we had a phone call. So, look,
you know, what would you recommend for this? He said, oh,
look there's a guy in Sydney that does restoration work.
Oh wow, because we were looking all the restoration work
was in Melbourne basically, which means kind of like you know,

(16:56):
you'd have to drive, you know, with a negative ten
hours to get a scam and so so he said, oh,
look there's a guy in Sydney. So we sussed it
out and we went round and I met Ray. And
Ray does a lot of restoration work for I guess
so government projects for the film archive. And I've seen
this work and it's phenomenal. So like, you know, just
thirty five mili film, sixteen meal film, and I said,

(17:16):
how do you feel doing a Japanese film? He said, oh,
it's film, is film, like I'll restore it, you know,
just just pret in and we took the negative Ray
and Ray did a phenomenal job on the restoration compared
to like I said, what looked like before He scanned
the sixteen Mili in four K. Obviously we went through,
we checked it. He did color grading, correction, clean up

(17:38):
on the specs and yeah, so we're like, wow, this
is fantastic. So now we have a local guy that
can do restorations and is office got this big four
K scanner and it makes it easy. Now. So now
when we negotiate with these film companies, we can say, hey,
we can restore it for you, send us the negative
and we'll do it for you. So it really helped
build this relationship because, yeah, look, raise a great guy

(18:01):
and he's he's a master at what he does. And
like I said, he's he's working in more films, some
Ozzie films he's restoring right now. I saw some of
the previews and they look phenomenal. So yeah, he's a
master what he does.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, let's let's dive into Rubbers Lover a little bit more.
We mentioned some of the themes of the film, But
first of all, like for Kui, didn't he work with
Sukermoto a little bit?

Speaker 2 (18:25):
He did. Yes, he worked on Tetsu Byron Man. He's
one of the crew and he has that sort of
cyberpunk influence. Yeah, a lot of this he works. Yeah,
very much sort of punk sort of influence. Like I
guess there's there's one called Middle Days, which hasn't officially
had a release, but he is planning on releasing it.
But yeah, he's he just had this and he worked

(18:46):
with what's the director did Crazy Ishi Soga who did
Crazy thunder.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Road so nice.

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Yeah, so we're always sort of like real up and
coming sort of punk sort of filmmakers and sort of visionaries.
And he took that influence and then he obviously made
a bunch of short film student films like Caterpillar, which
which is really incredible, and then he took that and
obviously made his first film, nine six for Pinocchio. And
so he does come from that sort of I guess

(19:13):
that generation filmmakers like Super Motto, Sono, like all these
sort of up and coming Mika, like that sort of
generation filmmakers that were up and coming during the sort
of video era. And so he obviously took that influence.
And when we interviewed him, he did mention he was
influenced by a lot of American films as well, like
American New Waves. So he's yeah, he's quite the visionary

(19:35):
and I think, like you said, despite his film being
so intense and extreme.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
He's yeah, he's an extremely like a gentleman and a
really soft spoken, very lovely, charming person. So I'm never
imagined that he made it such a.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
That movie.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Well, yeah, kind of surprise.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Yeah, quite a shock. Yeah, sorry, because because you see
his films, you think, oh, this guy must be crazy,
and you see it's all so yeah, absolutely real gentlemen
and yeah, the nicest guy in the world.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
Well, and that brings us to the release. Here, we've
got this this Blu Ray coming. You are delivering a
really really nice release for the first Blu Ray release
of this in the world. You've got an interview with
the Koui. You've got Jasper Sharp, who is like the
guy for many of these films, doing a featurette on this.

(20:32):
You've got Suzanne doing another visual essay incredible, and then
you get a booklet with Stanley in there. And then
my dear friend, miss Michelle Kissner. These are great I
would love to hear. Obviously you're in deep with the
physical media world with me. Who who is like the
company that you're trying to emulate or who inspired these releases?

(20:53):
What are you trying to be.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Like, Yeah, I mean I've because I've been following home
video for a while, like a long time pretty much life.
I mean from the early days of local labels over
here Anchor Bay and know those sort of labels as well,
and then and so yeah, look at I've Obviously I'm
a huge physical media clicked to myself, you know, make
her nose. I probably have too many Blu rays and

(21:16):
four K, way too many. But I guess some of
the labels we like obviously. Yeah, like even like like
Terror Vision, Like I just love that sort of curation
from a label.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
You know.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
The guys are like Era four four four, you know,
just really great sort of like Asian titles, Eureka. So
these are the sort labels that I'm a big fan
of myself personally, if I was to do a label
be along that line, you know, very curated. We're not
you know, pumping out you know, buying a calog of
fifty titles and pumping them out. We're actually handing films
that we think are very cool and then we think
the audiences would would enjoy as well. So yeah, those

(21:50):
sort of labels sort of really influenced myself. Yeah, just
just creating a brand that you know, people can have
all lined up on the shelf and to go, well,
these are cool movies.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Well, for anybody that's excited about Rubber's Lover, you can
buy a bundle on the website now that includes Rubbers
Lover and Spy number two. And this one is a
director you might be slightly more familiar with. Tell us
about your second movie coming out.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah, so the second film is Strange Circus by Sion Sono.
And this is quite interesting because because the process of
Rubber's lovel was taking so long, I said, to make it, look,
we should probably look at getting another film in case
it all falls apart, because you know, we should probably
look at getting a second film, or at least a
backup film. Is a launch title, and so we and

(22:39):
I was thinking, and there's look, and we've in this
weird place where there's a lot of films that were
huge during the DVD era, but they never quite made
the jump to blu ray and they've they've kind of
been forgotten. And one of those titles was Strange Circus.
And Strange Circus was a film that I I remember
seeing when someone gave me a DVD copy and they
said this film is pretty extreme. This is like a

(23:01):
pretty out there film. And I watched I was I
was blown away by because it was this mystery and
it's really beautifully shot, and it's well directed and the
you know, obviously Sono is the master so storytelling, and
his films are never boring. They just move at a
rapid pace and and so yeah, so I said, oh,
you know what I thought, And I was thinking a
and I was going through a list. I said, you know,

(23:21):
a strange circause this one. I think there might be
demand for this film because it's it's quite notorious and
there's people, you know, there's a YouTuber called Spooky Rice
that did a video and had like a half a
million views. So I'm like, why is it, Like, what's
the deal with this? And so we made contact, we
found the company that owned it, We made contact, and
this was probably this is probably about six months ago,

(23:43):
I'd say, or maybe no, No, it was last year,
wasn't it middle I'll try to remember, maybe middle middle
of last year. Maybe I think it was maybe.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Yeah, strange circus cidic CN. It's the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (23:58):
The end of the year, that's right, Yes, my timelines,
so yeah. So it was a time that I just said, oh,
what's going on with this film? And so we made
some inquiries and we found the right owners and three
I think April maybe April April or twenty twenty four,
was it? No, it was last year? Last year? Yeah, sorry,

(24:20):
this is how sorry because the negotiation is such a
long process, right it was maybe maybe I think it
was last year. Was last year?

Speaker 1 (24:28):
I mean April was only four months ago, so that
would be pretty quick company.

Speaker 3 (24:32):
Yeah, last year, last year. Last year we met the
main person was in April.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's right. I was just saying when we started acquiring. Yeah,
so so it was last year, so early last year,
and so it reached out and and City. They're an
interesting company. They produced by Gemini, the film What's that film,
The Goblin and the other supermodel film as well, so
they have a really interesting catalog and I saw a
strange circus on the list. They said, oh, yeah, this

(24:59):
is the film because I personally love it. So we
made some inquiries and these guys there are smaller companies,
so things moved a bit faster, which is great. So
we had a really good call with them, and we
had some negotiations and they said, yeah, look we can,
we can sign you this title, and I said yes,
So we obviously took the offer and we acquired Strange
Circus as the next title, and and yeah, so we

(25:22):
once once we acquired it, we thought, obviously we're looking
at sort of who could get involved with the release.
And then we said, I wonder if Seon Sona would
be interested in doing an interview, because look, he's a
we won't go into it, but there has been some
sort of controversy around on we won't we won't discuss
it once again. I you know, Criterion decided to release

(25:45):
Rosemary's Baby and have it fully approved by Polansky with
his extras all over in his commentary, then you know,
and if imprint the side to a Plansky box, So
I'm not going to go into it because there's there's
certain things there we won't comment. So we thought, oh, look,
we try and separate the art from the artist. New
wave and what we're trying to do is create a
package that has I guess, the best set of documentation
on the film, so people know the history of it,

(26:07):
the filmmaking and so and so. Yeah, I reached out
to someone who knew Sono, which was Nicodem and Nikodem
he worked with a lot of labels in Japan. He
does a lot of sort of inquiring and sort of
extras film as well. I said, oh, look, when mister
Sono be interested in doing an interview, and he said, oh, look,

(26:28):
I can check because obviously Sono is a bit private
right now, but I can check for you. And so
so he said, look, even if we don't get so
we've got the film, you know, we're going to release it,
We'll get some extras done. And then Suzanne was was
a big fan of the film as well. So I said,
do you want to do an essau? Yeah? Absolutely, so
we can't do in the extras, And then we got
the word back, hey, yes, actually Sona was interested in

(26:49):
being involved with the whole and to us, look, I
mean that's you know, it's it's huge for me personally,
because you know, Sono was a massive influence to me
growing up. His films like stal Cyclic, you Love Exposure,
these big sort of tempole films just kind of like epics, yeah, epics,
and and yeah, he was like there's there's Mika, and
there's Sono and he's he's up there, like he's one

(27:11):
of the greats, Like you know, he's one of the
great filmmakers, and so it would be an honor to
have a son A film in a catalog and so
we and that's how we sort of acquired the film
and and yeah, and then Sono did an interview for us,
which was which was quite quite quite amazing because we
didn't think we'd get the interview, but we ended up
getting it. And then obviously he also approved the release too.
So yeah, yeah, it's a good one. So it's a

(27:32):
very the film. How would you describe its kind of
a quite a shocking, not any kind of mystery.

Speaker 3 (27:40):
Yeah, it's kind of a mystery and trauma. Oh yeah,
oh yeah that's right, yeah, sort.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
Of a yeah, it feels it's it unfolds an interesting film,
Like yeah, I recommend it's a hard hitting film. And
and once again it kind of goes back to our mission.
We're kind of trying to acquire sort of hard hitting
films that quite controversial because, like I said, I love
sort of extreme cinema, but I say the words cinema
not there are these sort of movies that are shot
in bathrooms on phones, I know, like actual movie like Cinema,

(28:10):
so like really like films like Martyrs, you know, one
of my all time favorites. Wow, So I like extremes,
and so we're trying to get to the heart hitting
titles and Stranger because it's definitely one of those real,
you know, impact films that that you know, it'll stick
with you for a while after you see it, you
definitely won't forget it. So we, yeah, we want it
to get that as our second release. And by the
time all the contracts and negotiation was done, Rubber's Lover

(28:34):
was done, so kind of we pair them together kind
of made sense just to release them at the same time.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It is so so neat to see a label come
out with two titles that are sot after that are rare,
that are hard hitting, and that everybody has to sort
of immediately be I don't know, like on their on
their toes and validate you as a label, because it's

(29:00):
not just something easy. You are You were putting something
out there that took a lot of work, took a
lot of balls, took a lot of just really saying,
you know what we're really going for it, and that
is that is a bold choice and based to what
you're saying, It sounds like that's kind of the whole
point of the label. Am I hearing that right? That
that is kind of what you're always going to.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
Do, absolutely, and sort of our thing is is first
time on Blu Ray as well. That's sort of our
sort of mission as well, well, first of first sort
of release. And like I said, it's exactly that it's
rescuing these films because that's limbo. I don't think anyone
else wants to touch them, to be honest, like so,
so yeah, that's that's exactly it kind of rescuing these
these films and and you're kind of giving them the

(29:42):
definitive release as possible. But yeah, absolutely, there's a lot
of time and effort and and we want to make
an impact of the first two titles, and like I said,
we want something that you just hasn't been released you know,
five times in different territories. Want to make it a
really special release and that's sort of what we're going for.
And even the ones in the pipeline are so far
you know, first time on Blu Ray. So that's sort
of our goal is to really kind of do that.

Speaker 1 (30:05):
Well, speaking of that, your your third spine. You just
announced that one on social media and blaze of questions
from everybody immediately, because this is one that has been
sought after for a long time, and kind of around
the same time, we have the US company Disco Tech
working on a very similar type of release, So could
you tell us what that is, what is on the release,

(30:26):
and how it will be different from the Disco Tech release.

Speaker 2 (30:30):
Definitely. So yeah, number three we just announced. And the
reason we didn't want to announce it early but because
Discotech announced the They're one. We just wanted to just
get ahead of the curve because obviously, like when Venegas
Syndrome did the key in pretty year ago, said hey, guys,
just to let you know, we're doing the keep as well,
so at least it gives the buyers some options obviously,

(30:52):
because that's why I love this is a free market,
and so we we announced it a bit early just
just to let people know that, Hey, you know, guys,
just well I said, and don't get me wrong, I
love Discotheque. I've got all there, like a lot of
their releases, that the one's really rescuing classic anime and
so look, you know, all means if you're in the
US definitely. But our one is is going to be
a little bit different. I'll explain why. And it's interesting

(31:13):
because the how we acquired it was the company that
owns Rubbers Lover owns us I was going to pronounce it.
That's the correct pronunciation, by the way, because one more time.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
I slaughtered the name on my show last night. So
thank you so much.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
And yeah, so we we basically we we met the
company that owns Rubbers Love the women in Japan. We
went in the office and had negotiations and they said, look,
we're very happy with what you guys did was a
restoration of Rubbers Love it. You know, here's our catalog.
You know, what else are you interested in? And so
it was an open book thing. We're like, okay, and
so I kind of I went through. I looked at MAKE.

(31:57):
I went, I see you guys Ownoski Dot and they said, yeah,
we own we owned the whole whole series. And I
looked at Make. I said, oh, I think this is
this is this, this will be this will be big
personally myself, this film I saw I think I'm sure
I read maybe teenage boys saw it when they were younger,
but when I was in high school. A friend of

(32:18):
mine gave me the VHS. It did come out in
Australia on tape VHS, and so someone actually gave me
a copy of So check out this this this cartoon.
And I think maybe I was like fourteen or fifteen,
I can't remember, but I watched and I was just
like blown away. I was like, wow, this is because
I never seen anything quite like it. And a lot
of my friends at high school like, oh that that

(32:39):
film's like twisted, it's you know, it's it's graphic. And
obviously when it came out, people just didn't could not
comprehend it when it came out because obviously this is
it was made in the eighties, but it didn't get
sort of wide video releases until the early nineties and
even theatrical dig get theatrical release in Australia as well,
which just boggles the mind and so people which is

(33:00):
shocked by and I was blown away because it was dark,
it was it was also erotic because I never seen
something in a cartoon. I was like, why is this,
Why is what's going on here? This is very unusual,
and I was like very intrigued by it and violent
as well. So I ticked all the boxes for me
as a you know, like a fourteen year old even
though it was R rated obviously shouldn't been seeing it.

(33:20):
But uh and so yeah, that that did have an
impact on me and a lot of people we speak
to and know they have seen it at some point
in their life, like they have they do know of it,
they've heard of it, the notoriety of it, and so
so I said to make I said, look, this is
a big title. What we should really go after this
because I think it's one of the tempole It's up
there with you know, Wicked City. So that's an eighty

(33:41):
error of animation, unfortunately does get put into the entire genre.
But the theatrical version is more it cuts a lot
of that out. It's more of like a post apocalyptic
sort of movie. It's a shame because the animation is
is beautiful. It's it was animated by the best studios
in Japan under pseudonyms, so the guys Madhouse, who did
you know, Perfect Blue and that these guys worked on

(34:04):
you Dicky dogy early on. And so if you watch
the film, the animation is breathtaking. It's fast motion, it's
all hand but this is cell based. It's not no
citys all hand drawing, like hundreds of animators like drawing out.
So it's so it's a real work of art. And
that's why when I saw it on the list, I said, oh,
like this is I knew Disco Tech had they're released coming.

(34:24):
So I said, look, let's acquire it because I personally
love this film and I want to I want to
make it really special. Let's go for it. And so
we acquired it. But the deal was I said to
the licenses, I said, look, guys, I want it, but
I need Disco Tech's master. I can't accept the video
master because I think in Europe they had to release

(34:45):
some blue rays that they were just aiop scale. They
literally took the old video masters horrible, horrible, horrendous, And
so I said, look, will are quite, but we need this,
this new two K wrestler. We need this restoration. It's
part of our deal. And they said, look what, We'll
speak to Disco Tech and and they were nice enough to,
you know, give it up, give up the master to us,
and so we acquired the title. So I guess where

(35:06):
it differs. Look, we take our time with our releases,
and obviously we want extras. So we have got people
working on it doing you know, essays, interviews. We're doing
a mini documentary as well on the controversy of as well,
so that included. So we've actually got a local critic,
Ron Peterson. He saw it in the original theatrical run

(35:30):
and he has a lot of stories to talk about
how it played an anime festival and it was quite
a story and he's going to tell that on camera
as well. And yeah, we want to make it an
incredible physical package as well. So obviously it's going to
be a big box. It's going to have an art book.
We've got hundreds of pages of sort of character designs
and concepts and storyboards, so I really want to include

(35:52):
that as well. And obviously, yeah, like I mentioned earlier,
it's going to be on fifty gigabyte this. We don't
use twenty five gig this. We only use twenty fifty
gig because we want the best compression. And even though
the sequels are standard DEAF, they're huge, you know, niney
gig files and they look they look good for for
like video masters and so so yeah, so so basically

(36:12):
we will be presenting those in the highest quality bit
rates spread over a few discs int theyd of just
crammed on one disk. We're going to try and have
the best presentation. But over all years, it's just a
labor of love and it's something that we really want
to make special. I mean, as you see out there,
that's an original poster of the Demon over the City,
got that many years ago. So yeah, it's always been

(36:33):
a fan favorite. So when New Wave does a release,
you know that it's going to be extra special. So
we're going to put in the extra extra mile. And
they get at some companies they need to you know,
they need to get out to retail as fast. They
need to've got a pipeline, they need to work quickly.
But with us, we take our time, work with the
filmmakers directors. So yeah, if people are patient, and once
again I'm not discouraging people from the US release, but

(36:54):
if they, uh, you know, it's a free market. You
can get the keep from via vision and get the
key from a syndrome up to you and so similar
to us, you can get the film from US. They'll
get it from the US and our release. I did
say Region B market because yeah, this will be sort
of other territories as well. So yeah, we can explain
a bit more. But yeah, it's going to be like

(37:15):
we want it to feel like the ultimate addition because
this is going to be the be all, end all
for the series, and we know there are fans of it,
so we want to make it extra special.

Speaker 1 (37:24):
That is basically what I took away from this is
it's going to be the full package that Disco Tech
doesn't have. That to get Disco Tech's full package you
got to buy two different things, which not not a
huge deal, but if you want it all in one,
this is the way to get that. You got more
bonus features, you got better compression, So lots of reasons
to pick up your release over Disco Tech if you're

(37:44):
a stickler for the technical side, especially, So I mean,
this sounds fantastic, I mean, and that's that's just the
first three releases. All literally all three of these like obscure,
hard to find, some of them shrouded and received controversy,
and like so much just rich history behind these titles,

(38:06):
really great choices. Can we can we get anything about
what's coming up in the in the future for a
New Way video?

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Definitely? Yeah, So I was just going to mention as
well with the compression. So we've partnered with I won't
say their name, but they do the authoring for Imprint
as well and Poor Label so and so. So yeah,
they've been really they're actually authoring the disc right now
for us, the first two releases, and so they that
they they're the masters of sort of compression. It's not

(38:34):
fidelity the emotion or they're they're fantastic, but these guys
do a lot of work for the local labels and so,
and they know their stuff. So obviously the bit rates
it's very important to us, you know, may being quite technical,
what's kind of importance. So yeah, so so you just
want to mention that these will be properly authored. Dis
A's not someone in the garage, you know, burning discs,
you know, because a lot of people are like these
burn on demand. No, these are proper press This properly

(38:55):
authored with going the extra miles, I just wanted to
mention as well, but they will be well compressed as well,
because it's very iportant, great in terms of what kind
of titles. Yes, look, Wimill'm happy to announce number four
on your show. So number four will be another Sono
movie and because a lot of his films are stuck
in Libo, and it will be a two thousand and

(39:19):
five film called Nordico's Dinner Table. And and that is
a film. It's actually the Suicide Club prequel. And look,
in my opinion, our opinion, we think it's it's better
than Silicide Club. It's it's a real like son I
had really mastered as skill as a filmmaker, and and
it's it's an incredible film and one that I've been

(39:42):
looking at a lot of groups and forums and people
like where's Noriko, where's Norwiko. So we met with the
licenser in Japan. We went out to dinner with them
and and yeah they were lovely, really nice people.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Yeah yeah, very super causual and then like you know,
we had a drink and like yeah, when to your
bar to then as.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
We yes, yeah yeah. And so what opened the door
was we because it went out and we met these
licensells who owned a lot of so films and basically
we and then Nickodyin was there as well, and he said, oh,
look I'll try and get Sono out and he said, oh, no, pressure,
he doesn't have to come out and then he showed up,
Oh my goodness, and so so and then we were

(40:23):
you know, we went out that night drinking with Sono
and the license or and we we were just like,
you know, is this really happening. So it's yeah, it's
kind of like you know, because because like I've always
admired this filmmaking, the fact we're drinking with them at
the bar, talking about us films, going into depth and details,
and also getting his approval like do you want these
two together? Do you want this separate? How do you

(40:43):
want to do this? And do you approve his artwork?
So so it was just kind of surreal and so
and so, yeah, we struck up a good relationship with
those licenses as well. So Noriko Dinner Table is a
part of that, another son of film. So we want
to rescue Sono and once again art from the artists.
We just want to put the films out and it's
up to your choice if you want to purchase or not.

(41:05):
You don't have to, but yeah, we want to give
people the option at least make these films available and
not bury them. Because yeah, because no Conner Table is Yeah,
it's when I first saw it, it really had a
big sort of emotional impact on me. It's it's a
very yeah, it's a very emotional film. It's it's yeah,
I can't wait for people to see it. And they

(41:27):
did send us the negative to it as well, so
I've got it right here, I can show it office negative,
so yes, and so this is the yeah literally just
said naughtyko yeah yeah in Japanese. Yes, yeah, naughty coats
down table. So so yeah, so I've got this. So

(41:47):
these they shipped it over, we got it FedEx and
it's always very nerve wracking to have a negative in
the post. So this is gone. It's it's gone essentially,
that's it. And so yeah, we will be restoring this.
This is the yeahs iry and people under it negative
looks like this is just real one of ten. It's
a long film. It's it's two and a half hours,
so this is one of ten reels. So yeah, so

(42:11):
we'll be releasing that. We'll give it the special treatment
and then once again we'll give so the deluxe treatment
as well. The interesting thing about Norico, it was people
wondering it was Karli Wolf Creek. It was shot digitally,
but then it was transferred to film, so so because
back in two thousand and five, cinemas have not quite

(42:31):
made the jump to digitally yet and so essentially, yeah,
this film was shot digitally, but then they transferred it
to film. So what we're doing is restoring the negative
the film negatives. It's going to get as the best
possible element we could get. So yeah, we're very we're
very excited to see how it looks like. And Ray
is currently restoring it right now.

Speaker 1 (42:51):
This is I mean, the first four titles are like
long sought after stuff that people just could not get
and you somehow got through the door and got it
in that that's got to feel really great to get
those out of the way and literally have the foundation
of the company b be these like monumental achievements to

(43:13):
be able to put out.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yeah, absolutely, yeah we yeah, so like I said, they were,
we were a bit ambitious and we persisted. But thanks
to some negotiating and yourself obviously negotiating to being very
patient your.

Speaker 3 (43:29):
Taste of movies, like you're really super taku. So yeah,
quite surprised that. Yeah, he has a lot of knowledges
and that ee for all movies, is it correct, like
movies like you know, I'm a more I like mainstream,

(43:53):
you know. So that's why he brings a lot of
movies which I haven't seen it, even Japanese films. So yeah,
of surprise, Yeah surprising.

Speaker 2 (44:06):
Yeah, so but yeah, because I knew, I guess I
knew these are big titles that you like. And that's
the thing I'm thinking as a collector's mind, these are
things I want to see, like like where are they?
That's why, and this is how I want to treat it.
So it's coming very much from a collector's mind frame
of like how we kind of want to see these releases.
So yeah, so we hope that these are big, hard
hitting titles out of the gate, just to kind of

(44:28):
show that, you know, we're here to continue and work
on films that we love and give them the treatment
they deserve. But look, we are exploring other options as well.
There are certain films we're looking at that wouldn't suit
new Wave. They're more sort of I guess, more sort
of art house, like one of your We can't reveal

(44:48):
the title. We're in negotiations for another title, but it
definitely wouldn't fit on New Wave. That movie you like, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:54):
New Wave is more for like extreme like horror genre genre,
but in the meantime, like we want to launch a
side label for more like mainstream or like a drama
or peaceful movies.

Speaker 2 (45:15):
Yeah, which I more you know, I like, well there's yeah,
because don't understate you know, Maker you've has a has
a great knowledge of Japanese films, I guess sort of
more sort of uh drama and coming of age films
and sort of like really great, like she brought some

(45:36):
of my attention. I watched them, like wow, this is
this is incredible, and so a film actually in negotiations
for right now. But once again, we'll not fit in
a new way that you know, the person buying that
won't be buying this, or maybe they will. I mean,
I'm sure they're open. So we're thinking like Terror Vision
have their grave faceline, very similar, we might do something
like that where it's more sort of indie films, sort
of like a Japanese sort of I guess.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
So so like I said that, they're fantastic films, but
obviously Maker has a great knowledge about that sort of
those sort of nineties two thousand sort of Japanese films
I've never heard of, which are wonderful, just wonderful kind
of like it's like like Karnie, you do like these
wonderful cut Yeah, nice, nice sort of movie. So there's
stuff like that that we would love to release. Once again,
it just does not fit with New Waves, so we

(46:19):
we are and that would be more maker, would be
creating that line, the the sort of more peaceful films.

Speaker 3 (46:27):
Yeah, now we're thinking about the name or new like
I said, the label, but more like really to the
new waves a bit like a beach theme something yeah,
yea or yeah, but still all yeah.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
It hasn't come yet. We think yeah and looking and
we're in and look at not the say too much,
but we're in negotiations with for some titles that would
take us to barian levels. There are times that we're
you know inspiring about that are you know classics as well,
So we're very Yeah, I don't want to say too much,

(47:08):
but like I said, it's just negotiations, nothing solid, but
we definitely want to try and get more you know,
into into sort of like the tastiest new waves, like
so Japanese new wave as well, so the seventies and sixties.
So yeah, that that's stuff we're looking at as well.
So yeah, we definitely want to branch out a bit,
obviously from the hard hitting genre stuff. And also obviously

(47:34):
I guess we're folks in Japanese because it's what we know,
we love, you know, we've we know the culture. I've
worked in Japan, same with obviously makers from Japan. So
so I guess it's comfortable with right now. But we
are the possibility of branching out to you know, one
of our friends, you know, William, he's actually from Hong

(47:54):
Kong originally, he lives in Australia's he speaks Cantonese. So
he's showing us the idea of what about sort of
Hong Kong films. I'm like, yeah, look, I mean that's
a possibility as well, because there's a lot of great
Hong Kong movies. But once again, Japanese will be sort
of out bread and butter. But there is possibility of
Hong Kong later on, maybe as later on down the truck.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Very interesting there are Man, We're going to have to
talk after I pressed up because I've got a long
list of titles that I want to throw at you.
There is so much happening with all I mean I've
covered on my show a couple times, how in the
last year year and a half, I did an active
number of boutique labels count about a year and a

(48:36):
half ago, and around then there was about one hundred
and fifty active boutique Blu Ray labels that were you know,
they weren't doing like five a month, but they were
doing at least one or two a year, so that
there are they're actively working towards things. And yet so
many people are thinking that some of these companies are
going to run out of titles, and yet there are

(48:56):
corners of this world that have literally never had stones
unturned that if you just put in the work and
you get these major titles, suddenly you could be like
a major player in the scene here. And that is exciting.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
It is yeah, definitely is it just yeah, like just
if you put your mind to it, you never know,
like I said, just and you know, it's just just
obviously just a process. Be persistent, go after it. You
like I said, they can turn you down, but it's
worth just doing a shot. We're trying, and so that's
why we were going out the styles and we were

(49:32):
getting them and we were like, oh wow, okay, so
because I thought we'd definitely get knocked back on one
or two of them, but it was like, oh wow,
so so I guess, and once again it's just how
hey present yourself. And but yeah, I think there's plenty
of opportunity, plenty of films that need to be rescued
as well. Definitely kind of stuck in limbo, and so yeah,
there's it's great to hear, and it's you know, it's
an incredible time because there's so many and like on

(49:52):
your obviously your page, there's always stumping it out daily
and it's just like it truly is the golden age
of physical media right now.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
That note, I would love to hear. What has the
response been, Like, you just got two titles put up
for pre order, you saw the bundles available, you got
a shirt available. How's everybody responding.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Yeah, look very positively. We were quite shocked the orders
were coming in. Look, it's been good, it's been good.
I think obviously, being new label, I would be the same.
I'd be sort of on the sideline, just waiting to
obviously get them in hand and then I make my purchase.
So I completely understand there's probably some people just waiting.
But it's been very positive. We've had great reception from

(50:30):
around the world. People super positive about the releases. Obviously
Mako handles the social media, so has that been a
bit overwhelming A lot.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Of the Yeah, like Earlie day, also at night, like
you know, Pimp Pin and then new Floors and like,
oh my god, we cannot sleep. But even while we're working,
like you know, many worries.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yes, but still yeah, on the side, the phone keeps going. Yeah,
it's good.

Speaker 1 (51:07):
It's a good problem to have.

Speaker 2 (51:08):
At least it is. It is, Yeah, and I think yeah,
and even since yesterday, since we announced Doji, that really
kind of just went off and so we've just been
having like being shared around the world and we've just
been having a lot of messages and people inquiring. So
so yeah, so you're working over time on the social
media now, having to respond to everyone.

Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, actually you do. But also I yeah, I do
try not to like skip someone's comments and tried to
respond to.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
All you know, Yes, we try and respond to everyone. Yeah,
who plays the comment, Yeah, just just so we're engaged
with them as well, the fan base. But yeah, it's
been very positive and people are you know, we just
can't wait till people have in their hands. I mean,
we look and we did a pre order just because look,
obviously it's people may may obviously know, but it's very

(52:02):
expensive to manufacture. To get every order like it, it's
a very expensive process. And then obviously we've paid for
the restoration and the just costs that up and so look,
we could have sort of paid for it upfront, but
we thought, look, the pre orders really help. It really
helps us, like get the business, get the cash flow going,
so we can obviously get them in hand a lot faster,
and so so we appreciate everyone who's ordered directly. It

(52:22):
really means a lot because obviously that support helps us
to obviously get the initial releases and then and once
again we're not it's a real passion project for us.
We're not going to be a millionaires of this because
obviously everything we make from it goes right back into restoration,
into buying new films, into the manufacturing, into artwork. So
obviously all the costs that up, and so we're very

(52:43):
happy to break even and then obviously make a bit more.
But yeah, so the response has been great, So all
those people who've trusted us with the pre orders, it's incredible.
So we've sold about I can say now in terms
of stock levels about twenty five percent, which is which
is great. Look, I mean we would have been happy
with ten percent. So we've had a really good response.
And once again that's just from us, and I can

(53:05):
say on the show, I know there's a lot of
people that are inquiring about, Hey, you know what about
Diabolic or other retailers. Yes, so if you please be patient,
we have signed with a distributor and they have all
the relationships with all the sort of indie boutique sort
of retailers. So hopefully you'll see our titles showing up
very soon on their websites as well, so if you
they're locally, you can pick it up on them as well.

(53:26):
But yeah, it's the support's been overwhelming and where we
really appreciate it from everyone.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Yeah, it's already happening. They're out there and at least
a couple of the retailers here in the US. Now,
I know some people on my discord got real excited,
went and pre ordered pretty much immediately. This is so
cool to see somebody that I've known and respected for
so long be able to do something like this, and
this is just one of many things. I mean, you've

(53:53):
got the Imprint cast going on that you're still very
active on. Obviously, before we call it a day on
the interview here, I got to ask you mentioned Ankorbay earlier,
what's going on with the documentary because I know a
lot of us are dying to see that documentary.

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Yeah, obviously it's still still happening. There was some delays. Look,
we interviewed the main people we wanted, but we how
should I say this week? It was all guys we interviewed.
It was a real sort of a lot of guys talking,
a lot of yeah, a lot of.

Speaker 1 (54:29):
Sasage first, I get it.

Speaker 2 (54:31):
Yes, we really needed some like female Ancabay employees to
really balance the documentary because interesting thing about Ankabay it
was run by women. Essentially they were head of marketing,
head of horror. A lot of them are quite obviously
they're a little bit shy, the obviously don't want to
tell their stories. But we were able to track down

(54:51):
three ladies that worked at Ankabay and we will be
interviewing them. Actually, Michael Felcher is actually going to go
out and interview them and once we've got them. We're done.
We're done because I did that balance, that sort of
female balance, because like I said, we want to know
more about you know, the women who ran the company,
like that culture. But yeah, the Ancube Doctor is still coming.
Danny is editing it, working on it day and night,

(55:13):
and hopefully we'll have an update in the next month
or so. But yeah, it's been a long process, but
it's something that we we're very passionate about as well,
and there's been a real interest uniting in Ncubey. I
know that obviously there's an Ancabay podcast that's kind of started.
So yeah, we're very keen to get that documentary out
there because there's some great stories. You know, We've got
Bruce Campbell, William Lustig, so some really big names as well,

(55:36):
and so there's a passion project. And and I forget
Danny credit because Danny did help me as well with
getting the label our label obviously a New Way launch
because he he is involved with Crawford's and he's behind
all their DVD and sort of Blu ray releases. They
do a lot of TV shows, so he really helped
me with the logistics of you know, speak to these
people they do the manufacturing blah blah blah. So I

(55:59):
have Danny credit. It was a massive help in getting
us from to the manufacturing stage. But yeah, so we're
still coming, aiming for late this year at the worst,
maybe early twenty twenty six. But the first trailer should drop,
so once we get those ladies interviewed, we can we can, yeah,
finally get it out there. So we're we're very excited.
So thank you for being patient with us. But I guess,

(56:21):
as is the case, documentaries do take a while. We
were hoping to rush to get out a lot quicker,
but yeah, just we need those those crucial interviews and
hopefully next week Michael's going to go interview them, so
we should be done. So yeah, it'll be coming soon.
And I think even you've been asking what's going on
the documentary?

Speaker 3 (56:40):
Oh yeah, yeah, you're working on that documentary. Now.

Speaker 1 (56:48):
This is this is so great again, very very happy
for your congratulations on all the success. Proud to see
all the moves you've made over the last couple of years.
It's just exciting. The future is quite great for New
Way Video and both of you. This is amazing.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
No, I really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 (57:08):
Think.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Yeah, yeah, we just hope that people enjoy check them out,
you know, and hopefully, and like I said, we're acquiring
titles that we think are yeah, some of the masterpieces,
like in our opinion, So you know, if people just
give them a chance, then enjoy it. Like I said,
once again, they're hard hitting, they're extreme. Like I said,
we never intended to, I guess sort of be an

(57:31):
extreme label. But I guess the films we are acquiring,
I guess are extreme to a degree. So so like
something like you know, we didn't want to maybe like
Unearthed or something. We weren't really going for that, but
I guess the titles that we're going are sort of
like that. But yeah, like I said, if you just
give them a go, there controversial, hard hitting, but just
just wonderful, wonderful films and films of cinema.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Incredible links for everything or in the description below you
can pick up from New Way Video Now pre order those.
When is the bundle shipping again here in the next
couple of months, right.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
Yeah, Aimy for mid October. So Alex who he's doing
our shirt. He's a he's a great guy. Like I've
known Alex for a while he usually goes to sort
of conventions and sells really sort of cool punk shirts
based on horror movies. And I said, oh, you filmcoming Rubbers.
It's it's very it's black and white, it's punk. He's
I'll do it. So he's done a really cool t shirts.

(58:25):
He can get the bundle as well. Yea, and yeah,
we're shipping them all out mid October. And and that
shirt is a limited edition, so once we close the
pre orders then that's sort of bit. So if you
want the shirt, I advise you get on it because
it is a limited run.

Speaker 1 (58:38):
Good good choice. Yeah, this is great. I'll link the
imprint cast below. I'll link all the social media for
new wave videos so you can stay up to date.
And of course I'll cover every single thing you do
because I'm just excited about it. So you know, I'll
be here sharing the word. So thank you both for
your time. This has been just an absolute delight.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
Thank you so much for having nice Thank you Eran
really appreciate it.

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