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» Movie 2: Bokura No War Game
The movie itself was cut and pasted into the American release of 'Digimon: The Movie' and luckily Ryo's goat-boy scene is still there. It's widely available on DVD and VHS. If you want to view the movie in it's uncut original form, it's available on DVD and VCD, though for the DVD version you'll need a DVD player capable of reading a region 2 disc (Japanese release) or region 3 disc (Hong Kong release). The Hong Kong release (which is official, not a bootleg), has the dialog in both Cantonese and Japanese. I believe both versions also include the first movie in it's entirety.

» Digimon Tamers
If you happen to have the cash and the DVD player, Toei has been releasing Tamers on DVD (and VHS), of course the dialogue is in Japanese. There is also a more affordable Cantonese dub being released on VCD (the episodic screencaps you see on this site are made from them). Since they only put one episode and one language track on each VCD the picture quality is excellent.

The Cantonese dub is a pretty faithful translation of the original Japanese dialogue and they keep the original themes and background music. It's strange though to hear Culumon's Chinese VA speaking and then having them cut to his Japanese VA singing.

» Movie 6: Runaway Digimon Express
The final Tamers movie is avaliable on both DVD, VCD and VHS (Japan release only). As with other DVDs, you would need a player capable of region 2 (Japanese release) or region 3 (Hong Kong release) playback. The Hong Kong release also includes Diaboromon Strikes Back.

While 'Diabromon Strikes Back' keeps the original Japanese themes, they have Cantonese versions of the OP and ED for 'Runaway Digimon Express'. However, they do decide to keep the Japanese version of Yuuhi no Yakusoku (along with the VA) when Ruki sings it.

Unfortunately starting with their last Digimon movie release (The Adventurer's Battle), Panorama (the company distributing the Cantonese dubbed versions) is only including the Cantonese audio track rather than offering both Cantonese and Japanese language tracks.

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