Mill Creek Entertainment

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Mill Creek Entertainment
Mill Creek Entertainment

Type Home video distributor
Status Active
Led by Irwin Jacobs, Robert Zakheim,
Scott Moss
Founder(s) Ian Warfield, Robert Zakheim, Scott Moss
Founded 2002
Head-
quarters
Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States
Parent company Alliance Entertainment
Website https://www.millcreekent.com/

Mill Creek Entertainment is a home video company that was founded in 2002. It has released numerous tokusatsu productions from studios such as Toho, Kadokawa, and Tsuburaya Productions to DVD and Blu-ray in North America. It currently holds the North American home video distribution rights to the Ultra Series and many of Tsuburaya's other tokusatsu series, and has been gradually releasing them to DVD and Blu-ray starting in 2019.

Selected home video releases

Gallery

Trivia

  • The DVD of Godzilla: The Series had all 40 episodes in chronological order instead of broadcast order and two episodes that were originally unaired on TV and appear in it for the first time anywhere.
  • Early releases of the DVD set Pop Culture Bento Box accidentally omitted one of its four films, The Little Prince and the Eight-Headed Dragon.
  • Both Shout! Factory's previous 2012 DVD release of Ultraseven and Mill Creek Entertainment's later 2019 Blu-ray release of it are missing episode 12 (of 49), "From Another Planet with Love", which was banned in Japan practically immediately (this was because Ultraseven's enemy in this episode, Alien Spell, was labeled as "Hibaku Seijin" ("A-Bomb Survivor Alien") because he physically resembled the hibakusha (survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II), complete with keloid scars. These people have, to this day, been the unfortunate victims of severe fear-based discrimination in Japan in regards to marriage and work prospects and, as a result, the episode was both considered to be offensive to them and regarded to be in poor taste (even Tsuburaya Productions' changing the label to "Kyuketsu Uchujin" ("Bloodsucking Alien") didn't satisfy negative public opinion at all), so the alien and his episode were eventually pulled from all official publications, TV broadcasts and home video releases. Neither one of them has been seen in Japan ever since. However, episode 26, "Super Weapon R-1", which was also banned in Japan much later (this happened after March 2011 and it was done mainly because of one part of its story's similarity to the then-recent disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant), is available on both of the aforementioned home video releases.

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