Posted by cassiepaige on 02.14.2008, 02:34 AM: Only Yesterday i think it should be english dubbed |
Posted by Kazegami on 02.14.2008, 12:52 PM: Ah, I think you're in the wrong section. Was this meant to be in the 'Ghibli Discussions' section? If so perhaps you should post it again there, or ask Roarkiller to move this thread for you. I think you'll have more chance of replies there.
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Posted by arren18 on 02.14.2008, 01:02 PM: Yeah, it should be in Ghibli Discussions...
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Posted by Seiji on 02.14.2008, 11:57 PM: I hate disney. They refuse to release the film in the United States even though they own the distribution rights because they feel that it would hurt their image. |
Posted by Saddletank on 02.15.2008, 02:37 AM: This subj has been discussed at length on the Nausicaa mailing list in recent weeks and the concensus there is it might not be to do with the company's family image but more to do with lack of profit potential on a movie that would attract low sales figures.
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Posted by Seiji on 02.15.2008, 05:24 PM:
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Posted by Saddletank on 02.15.2008, 07:01 PM: The UK release is nothing to do with Disney, Optimum Releasing is an independent UK-based DVD publisher and presumably dealt direct with Ghibli's marketing people when it released its UK R2 (subtitled) version.
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Posted by Seiji on 02.15.2008, 08:19 PM:
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Posted by Saddletank on 02.15.2008, 08:35 PM: Disney would never released a subtitled-only movie, its just not in their vocabulary or marketing. You may as well ask them to send a mission to Mars
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Posted by Seiji on 02.16.2008, 03:22 AM:
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Posted by Saddletank on 02.16.2008, 04:29 AM:
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Posted by arren18 on 02.16.2008, 06:00 AM: Saddles, don't you mean US R1 NTSC and UK R2 PAL? And besides, newer televisions are compatible with both PAL and NTSC, so it shouldn't be an issue.
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Posted by fizzy on 02.17.2008, 11:54 PM:
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Posted by paperbullet on 02.21.2008, 08:27 PM: On the nausicaa.net mailing list, we've been discussing ways to encourage Disney to release a dubbed version of Only Yesterday sometime soon. We've come to an agreement that the only real reason Disney doesn't want to dub it is not that it would hurt their image (they could just release it through Miramax, which has released far worse films) or copyright (they shelled out for "Whisper of the Heart"; why not Only Yesterday?), but that there's virtually no market for the film. They aren't interested in doing it since it won't make money. So we decided to send an e-mail to Donald and Cindy Hewitt, who are the people in charge of the Ghibli translations and releases. They, as of yet, haven't sent a reply. We contacted them about two weeks ago. But we're sure they'll reply in some way, since we've sent them two messages before and they replied to both. In the meantime, the best thing to do is to vote for the film's release on the TCM (Turner Classic Movies) website, since we may try to use the site's influence to our advantage.
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Posted by Farren on 02.22.2008, 12:05 AM: it would be hard to get a perfect dubb seeming that the japanese voice actors where filmed dubbing and then there mouths were drawn that way,so a decent dubb would be extremely hard to do it would proberly end up like a 1970 bruce lee dubb
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Posted by Saddletank on 02.22.2008, 09:00 AM: The lip synching isn't really the issue, its the translation and the suitability of the voices and the skill of the actors, probably in that (descending) order.
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Posted by Paladin on 04.11.2008, 04:46 PM: I've watched Only Yesterday more times than I can remember compared to other Ghibli movies... How would Disney releasing this movie hurt there self image? <.<
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 04.11.2008, 08:10 PM: I always thought it was more the extended "period scene" that scared Disney away from releasing the film. Of course, they're being just as immature about it as the ten-year-old boys in Taeko's class.
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Posted by husky51 on 04.11.2008, 08:34 PM: maybe so... people are still kinda uptight about stuff like that down here...
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 04.11.2008, 09:25 PM: The United States, especially, it seems, has never really grown up when it comes to certain issues involving the female body. Disney would rather release a cartoon with a pretty high body count (like The Incredibles) than they would an animated movie even mentioning menstruation. It's really very silly.
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