The utter unlikely-hood of that scenario was what I was alluding to with "but I think we all know the likely hood of that happening".



From the screen caps that I've seen, Criterion's "Seven Samurai" Blu-ray crushes Toho's own "Seven Samurai" Blu-ray. If a licensee can put out a Kurosawa product so superior to Toho's own disc of the same, just think how much better the kaiju Blu-ray discs could look if licensed to a company willing to spend the money.