Tag Archives: Toho

Seven Samurai (BFI UHD)

Slowpoke Pics currently has a comparison of all three UHDs of Seven Samurai (1954). The very first screencap, of the BFI disc, shows sloppy retouching:

Smeary retouching on BFI’s UHD of Seven Samurai (detail).

(Full image here.)

The Toho UHD looks the same, but with different grading, cropping, and filtering. The Criterion UHD doesn’t have these smeary spots, but I don’t know how it looks in motion.