They have. The rights have reverted back to Bandai, who highly likely will release a top notch release of the film in the future. Bandai Visual created a new labelled called "Honneamise" and did awesome R1 releases of Patlabor 1&2 last year and will release Gainax's Gunbuster in February. The...
Be sure to watch the Alternative cut too, as it is much closer to John Ford's original intentions. I.e. it is more subtle and has less Hollywood gloss. If you haven't seen any other Ford films then you can't go wrong with the Warner Ford-Wayne boxset.
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