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Post by **Crazy Penguin** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:22 pm

The UK had subtitled cinema releases of Spirited Away.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:53 pm

That's because in England, people actually learn languages other than English.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 1:54 pm

Locit wrote:But what about going to see it to support Ghibli in the US? Unless they actually have some screens showing a subtitled edition, there's not going to be any other convenient way to see the film.

If they had a subtitled original dialogue version, I'd happily support that effort. (Except I'd have to drive, at the closest, to New Orleans for any such screenings.) Ghibli otherwise is mainstream enough that I don't think it needs any special support, and I hate theaters in the first place. The only reason they'd bother with a complete dialogue dub and widespread theatrical release in the first place is if they thought it had mainstream appeal.

I'll buy the DVD for sure, though. I'm assuming they're saving Totoro to be released with it?

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:04 pm

Totoro was already released under the FOX label, if my memory serves me. I saw it not one month ago when dragged to the local Virgin Megastore.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:17 pm

It was, but that version only contains the dub and there's no widescreen. I think the Fox license expired and Disney now has the rights. They were originally supposed to have released it last month with Porco and Nausicaa, but I guess they replaced it with The Cat Returns. I assume (hope) they're saving it to release with the Howl DVD.

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:22 pm

Well, not buying it was a wise decision then. Is The Cat Returns related to Miyazaki in any way other than that it's a Ghibli project?

Post by **Esrever** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:33 pm

Two of the characters were originally in Whisper of the Heart, which Miyazaki helped prepare but did not direct himself. Otherwise, nope!

I really like the Cat Returns but it is really a very different sort of film than Miyazaki's work. It gets bashed for being comparatively simplistic and shallow, but considering it isn't really shooting for that kind of depth in the first place I don't really think that's fair. It's kind of to Ghilbli what Monster's Inc. was to Pixar... joyfully imaginative but much more a straight-ahead children's film than their other stuff.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:54 pm

I picked up that and Porco, though I haven't watched Cat Returns yet. Porco's the bees knees, I liked it even better than Kiki. I kept thinking Sonic 2 during the opening sequence.

Post by **Popcorn** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:26 pm

I was in France last month-- which isn't a big deal, considering it only takes a few quid and two hours to get there-- and noticed they happened to have Howl's Moving Castle showing. I still don't think it even has a UK release date yet, so I bought a ticket. I ended up seeing it in Japanese with French subtitles and hence understood very little of it.

The cinema was tiny. It only had one room other than the lobby itself. The film started five minutes after I got there, so I thought I'd take a seat. When I went into the room, another film was just finishing-- a French woman ran after me, shouting, and escorted me out. I kept trying to apologise in French hoping she'd leave me alone, but she just stood there, ranting in a language I only partially understood. Eventually I just interrupted and said "I'm sorry, I don't speak French." She said "But this film has French subtitles." I cooly replied "Yeah, well, I speak Japanese."

I liked the film.

Post by **Popcorn** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:28 pm

And another thing: during the credits, no-one got up to leave-- everyone just sat through them respectfully. My parents, who saw another film, said it happened with them too. It must be a French courtesy thing.

Howl's credits were in Japanese.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 4:47 pm

I went to watch The Incredibles with others from my animation class last semester and we tried to sit through the credits but the goddamn cleaning crew came in after the rest of the crowd left. The credits were still rolling full-throttle. The cleaning crew for God's sake.

There's no respect for anything anymore. Except in France, evidently.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:48 pm

The French respect cinema. Now if only they'd stop disagreeing with America. I mean, we're always right.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:35 pm

But they're all stinky.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:47 pm

Everyone in Europe is stinky, and have bad teeth.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:28 pm

Everyone in Europe is stinky, and have bad teeth.

Didja hear that, Jman? That's gotta throw some points my way, right?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:42 pm

Subtitled prints of Spirited Away were circulated in North America during its theatrical run. Considering that Howl is expected to open in 700-800 theatres across North America, a subtitled showing shouldn't be too hard to track down. Don't a lot of theatres usually run the subbed version of foreign movies at least once a day?

Of course, I still only managed to catch the dubbed version. And Canada is, like, ten times more cultured than the UK.

Porco Rosso rocks. It's probably my new favourite Miyazaki film after Mononoke. I don't understand why people are always so hard on those two.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:51 pm

Zeta wrote:
Everyone in Europe is stinky, and have bad teeth.
Didja hear that, Jman? That's gotta throw some points my way, right?

J-man's not in Europe, he's in England. Big difference.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:53 pm

What?

Locit · Post by **Locit** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 12:41 am

Porco Rosso rocks. It's probably my new favourite Miyazaki film after Mononoke. I don't understand why people are always so hard on those two.

I was unaware they were.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:02 am

Yeah, me too.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:09 am

People always accuse Mononoke of being long-winded, pretentious, and the complete opposite of everything a good Miyazaki movie should be. I say those people are morons.

And Porco... well, it just doesn't seem to click with a lot of people.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:34 am

People always accuse Mononoke of being long-winded, pretentious, and the complete opposite of everything a good Miyazaki movie should be. I say those people are morons.

It does have an awful ending. Everybody goes back to fucking eachother over!

Post by **Pepperidge** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:51 am

But isn't that the point? I thought it had the best ending out of all of the Miyazaki movies. In fact, most of his movies don't even really have "endings".

Also, Totoro is supposed to be out in the next wave of DVDs. It got delayed for some technical reason.