Talk:Virus (1980 film)
Latest comment: 3 years ago by GA-RT-22 in topic Two million yen?
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Public Domain...?
editThe article doesn't mention anything about this film being in the public domain, but it's categorised under "public domain films".
Can anyone give an explanation as to how a 1980 film would come to be in the public domain, or alternatively recategorise this correctly. Prof Wrong (talk) 16:22, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
- I agree. That needs an explanation. Kouban (talk) 22:22, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
- This is the edition that added the cat: [1]. --Damiens.rf 16:10, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
Languages????
editWhile the DVD in question does not have English subtitles, an English-subtitled version of the full cut was later released in 2006 as part of a compilation set called the Sonny Chiba Action Pack.
Why is this here? This was an English language film. Why would English subtitles even be a problem? --24.21.149.124 (talk) 05:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- and why are you fretting all of a sudden over the language? Please read the Toho Kingdom review on the R2 DVD before you start complaining. Thank you. --Eaglestorm (talk) 13:14, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
- Though mostly English, some parts of the film have Japanese speech, so English subtitles are needed.(88.3.114.28 (talk) 13:07, 28 May 2016 (UTC))
Two million yen?
editThat’s roughly only 20,000 $US. Even in 1980 thats not a great deal of money for a film budget, especially one that was supposedly the most expensive Japanese film up to that time. That figure must be incorrect. Evil-yuusha (talk) 09:04, 8 December 2018 (UTC)
- In 1980 it was less than US $10,000. Agreed that's not possible. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:41, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
- This source has it at $16 million US which in 1980 was about 3.36 billion yen. That goes along with this source that says budget was $16-20 million US. MartinezMD (talk) 00:19, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
- I see Autodidact1 has changed this to 2.4 billion, marked as a minor edit, without providing a source or discussing here. I'm going to change the tag to "failed verification." GA-RT-22 (talk) 14:20, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
- I changed it to conform with the figure in the summary (if that is what it is called) in the article. Autodidact1 (talk) 01:41, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
- If you don't have a source for that, I'm going to go with Bolam. GA-RT-22 (talk) 05:33, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
In the absence of a reliable source, should we just take out the budget number? GA-RT-22 (talk) 05:43, 2 February 2021 (UTC)