One of the things I love about Arrow is that instead of sticking to a narrow range of "safe" titles, they're not at all afraid of striking out into previously uncharted waters.
I haven't seen either of the new titles that they've just announced and don't know any more about them than is printed above, but given that it's unlikely they'd have cleared US and UK rights (which don't come cheap, especially where Japanese titles are concerned) and commissioned brand new subtitles, I'm more than happy to believe that they're hitherto undiscovered gems.
And of course this is one of the aims of the whole Arrow Video USA project in the first place - by increasing the size of the market, it'll be easier for Arrow to justify going to the expense of doing original scans of film elements, and therefore bring more films back that haven't had a proper release since they originally opened (and sometimes not even then: the last time I saw Dr Jekyll in 35mm it was cut to ribbons).
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