Forum - View topicR2 DVD of Ghibli's Earthsea movie to have English dub/subs
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Steventheeunuch
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Limited Edition listing Watch Impress annoucement THING Bilingual (and more!) version of Tales of Earthsea (or Gedo Senki if you suck) Basically, the regular edition will be atleast Japanese and English audio, English subtitles. Limited Edition will be Japanese Dolby and DTS on one disc, no subs, and five foreign languages and relative subtitles (English, french, and Cantonese, Japanese, etc) on the second with discs 3-4 being special features blahblahblah Links to the limited edition, and various other places have listed that the regular edition will contain English subtitles and an English dub, though details will spring up as we go along (it's very similar to the region 2 release of Howl's Moving Castle) Last edited by Steventheeunuch on Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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DragonsRevenge
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How can it be dubbed if it was never released in the US in the first place?
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Steventheeunuch
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In the same way that Innocence, millenium Actress and plenty of other titles can be before coming over. Just because a company is not based in the US doesn't mean they cannot hire a studio to produce a dub for them in the US, or the UK, or anything else. japan Airlines did a bunch of dubs for Ghibli movies (laputa, Porco Rosso, Totoro I think), Manga UK and Madman paid Richard Epcar's studio to do a S.A.C cast dub of Innocence, and likewise they also got a studio or something of UK Radio play performers to do an English dub for Millenium Actress. There are ways and means of doing anything  .
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DragonsRevenge
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Do they hire an american cast or a Japanese cast that a decent grasp on the language? It would be hard to watch it with an engrish dub cast. |
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Steventheeunuch
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Well, the main reason Studio Ghibli include foreign language tracks/subs on their DVDs is that they know their films have an international appeal and foreigners (from a Japanese perspective) import them. There'd be no reason to cheap out on an Engrish dub, so I'd expect it to be a US dub, I don't know. You'd have to wait for the DVD to come out, in which case they don't have English language credits anyway. |
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Necrontry
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Technically Ghibli has no influence on who does the dub, although I believe they approve the scripts or at the very least is involved with writing scripts/making slight changes. The distributor, in this case Disney, does. But that pretty much guaranties a well done dub, as they will probably reuse it for the later R1 release, once Sci-Fi losses thier rights for north america's distribution of LeGuin's work. |
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Sun King
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So then there shouldn't be any reason for Earthsea to be fansubbed, if this is the case. Perhaps this partially influenced the decision (Disney's decision? Ghilbi's decision?) for the dub and subs.
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UKfan
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Hmm, makes me wonder if I should import the Japanese release or wait for the UK release considering they will probably be identical anyway.
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DragonsRevenge
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They're still gonna sub it. R2 DVDs are expensive as hell. Plus the casual anime fan (ie, those that get their anime at best buy, etc) most likely are unaware of importing anime. |
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10円
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I will seriously considering importing this unless Buena Vista gives me a reason not to. Their screw up with the original release of Spirited Away left me rather cynical about their attention to detail and their indefensible reluctance to admit fault and provide a sufficient resolution.
EDIT: Removed comment about fansubs. Man, I sure wish people would stop bringing them up. Last edited by 10円 on Wed Apr 04, 2007 9:12 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Cloe
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Bleh, not me. The one nice thing that happens when an R1 comes out is I'm able to rent a film first to see if I like it. I'm fully supportive of making R2 purchases, but I wouldn't do it in this case. Because a) it's for sure coming out in the U.S. sooner or later and b) it sounds like a really poor film. I'm still vaguely interested in checking it out, since it is a Ghibli film after all, but no imports this time. I'll just wait. This Ghibli R2, on the other hand, is a different story. It's up next on my import list (after Kemonozume, that is). |
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Deltakiral
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Well who knows if this film will make it to the US concerning there are quite a few legal issues regarding licensing issues with Sci-fi channel having exclusive rights for the next few years. I don't know if I am going to buy this but if legal issues make this movie unavailable for quite some time then I might make it an option of getting this release. |
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Cloe
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To be honest, reason (b) far outweighs reason (a) in my case. There's no way I'm going to import mediocrity when I can just wait a few years. It's not exactly like I'm on the edge of my seat here. I appreciate your news, though, Steven.
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Urd
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Is it really a limited edition ? I don't read that. |
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Deltakiral
Posts: 3338 Location: Glendora, CA (Avatar Hei from Darker than BLACK) |
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Yeah thanks Steven although I am probably going to pass, but I am sure there plenty of others who are going import this dvd. Like you Cloe after finding out about the pricing for the standard edition for this film (nearly $45) I am also just going to sit on my hands and wait for Disney to pay off Sci-fi so that I can get my R1 release of Tales of Earthsea.... |
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