Import Duties Dept.

A Japanese Region A Blu-ray edition of Avalon [my review] will be hitting stores later this year. It's pricy — $75 — but it has English subs, and I'm not sure this will be released domestically in that form anytime soon. Also intriguing is the Macross Zero and Macross F releases — neither of which have been licensed for the U.S. yet, amazingly — and Vidocq, the latter having been shot originally in HD video. (The DVD didn't look all that great, but I'm hoping a 1080p treatment will show the film off that much better.