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MentalMachine
Joined: 09 Oct 2013
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 Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 12:57 pm
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| MajinSaga wrote: | | Any word of whether this will bring the dub included? |
Almost impossible. It's a well known fact that Satoshi Kon himself disliked dubbing of his works and was grateful that Manga showed the subbed version of Millennium Actress.
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GATSU
Joined: 03 Jan 2002
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:19 pm
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I don't blame him. I'd swear off dubs, too, if I saw the one for Perfect Blue. 
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TJ_Kat
Joined: 11 Jan 2007
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Location: Saskatoon, Canada
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 2:38 pm
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| GATSU wrote: | | Dreamworks is run by A-holes [...] it would be nice if their rights to it, the live-action Casshern, and GITS 2, expired by now. |
I thought their rights to GITS 2 had expired. Bandai released it on DVD and blu-ray 3 or 4 years ago. Wasn't Millennium Actress licensed around the same time?
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E-Master
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 3:52 pm
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| TJ_Kat wrote: | |
I thought their rights to GITS 2 had expired. Bandai released it on DVD and blu-ray 3 or 4 years ago. Wasn't Millennium Actress licensed around the same time? |
It was released by Bandai a few years ago for short period of time until both the DVD & Blu-ray editions went out of print and the only copies sold online are incredibly expensive. From what I gather there's a bit of an issue on the licensing of the movie in the US. I don't know the major details unless someone can help me on that info. I just know that getting it re-released on DVD & Blu-ray isn't going to be done over night unless the issue has been resolved.
As for Millennium Actress' license in America, I'm not sure the exact date it was license but it was released in 2003 in the US just a year before GitS2. Since GitS2 was released in the US the same year as its original release, its safe to say that Millennium Actress was licensed first since it was the first film released by Go Fish Pictures which only distributed four films before its defunct in 2007. Unless I'm mistaken on the details.
Like GitS2, Millennium Actress's DVD release in the US is also scarce with very limited number of copies avalible on various online shops which all of them are expensive. Not sure what it will take for the film to be re-released in the US.
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GATSU
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:18 pm
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TJ: GITS 2 was released on Blu-Ray by Bandai with the permission of Dreamworks, so...
E-Master: Used copies of MA are still cheap enough. GITS 2, OTOH....
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ElectricDork
Joined: 08 Apr 2010
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 5:30 pm
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The UK dub for Millennium Actress is very good, IIRC. I remember having to watch it because the only subtitle track on the disc is for hard of hearing viewers, and I couldn't deal with that. Millennium Actress is probably my favourite Kon movie so I would even consider importing the JP version should it include English subtitles.
As for GiTS 2, the UK Blu-ray is widely available, cheap, and--dun-dun-duuuuun--region free.
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E-Master
Joined: 21 Aug 2005
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:03 pm
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| GATSU wrote: | |
E-Master: Used copies of MA are still cheap enough. GITS 2, OTOH.... |
I over looked the "used" section while checking the price for the "new" MA DVD. But your right, the film is still common in used. I was greatfull to get a new condition MA DVD when it was still in print. Now if only someone like Discotek or some other company could rescue license the title that way it be in print in the US again.
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silentjay
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:55 am
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| GATSU wrote: | | Ghost: It won't get picked up, because Dreamworks is run by A-holes who only licensed MA in the first place, so they could crib scenes for Memoirs of a Geisha. |
You mean the movie based on the book that Kon cribbed scenes from for MA?
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GATSU
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:33 am
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silentjay: The book came first, but the live-action take on Geisha was clearly modeled after Millennium Actress.
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