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It's rare, but there have been PG13 "Disney" movies in the past.

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls053773646/

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Any news of extras for Princess Mononoke?

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The Miyazaki boxset was to include the Miyazaki directed music video for "On Your Mark", had to be deleted from the set at the last minute.

Ghibli has announced that they will now send out a blu-ray or dvd of the music video on its own, for free for people who purchased the boxset.

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Go to Amazon UK - Region-Free Blu-ray of SPIRITED AWAY for 18 pounds = (currently) $29. U.S. plus shipping.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

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How do you know it's region free? All of the other Studio Canal releases are Region B

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per the main review here, Disney fucked up and did not include regular subtitles that translated accurately the dialogue like the original dvd, that the new blu is essentially dubtitles
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/66671/princess-mononoke/

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That's disappointing, I was very close to pre-ordering that title, but I'm glad I didn't.

What an incredibly foolish and easily preventable mistakes.

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It happens all the time with anime releases.

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Of course that would happen...

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Was the Miramax DVD also dubtiles? Still have my copy of it. Kind of disappointed that Disney put dubtitiles on the blu-ray, I might still pick it up for the the 19 min. extra of film promoting in North America.

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Does Kiki's Delivery Service also have dubtitles?

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They're the same style of dubtitles from the 2010 DVD, which is a mix of direct text from the English dub and some deviations. The subtitles also omit points where the English dub adds more elaboration in scenes.

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Maybe John Lasseter convinced them it would be good to put it under their main Disney banner? Or they just decided to simply because they have so many Miyazaki films in the same style of packaging. This is very accurate though, only a few PG-13 movies ever get released under the Disney banner and this is why it was Miramax originally.

It's actually sort of strange that this is what they did for The Wind Rises on it's release...

Yes, but it didn't happen with the last release of the same film, and they already have an alternate proper set of subtitles!

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I'm just saying that it's a frustrating trend.

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Upcoming UK Miyazaki set. £180.00 (round $280 US). Streets December 8th.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Hayao-Mi...A3P5ROKL5A1OLE

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It has happened before and will happen again. Subs are almost always an afterthought for most studios.

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Are you confirming that Kiki's Delivery Service has the same problem as Princess Mononoke?

Did this also affect any of Disney's prior Ghibli Blu-rays?

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nope. If you play the dub and the subtitles at the same time, every other line is different.

for Kiki one way to "tell" if its subtitles or dubtitles is if the drink Kiki drinks is coffee or hot choccolate (coffee for subs)
Phil Hartman did improvise a little for the cat espeically when the cat's face isn't on screen (so there wouldn't be an issue w sync issues

PM had an adapted English language screenplay written Neil Gaiman. While interesting and valid in its own way, it doesn't constitute a substitution of a more proper translation. I'd say to send complaint e-mail, but come, Disney wouldn't be listening even if anyone did. I suppose there's the hope that the UK release will fix the issue, but it's doubtful.

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In that there isn't a direct translation option, yes.

The Blu-ray's subtitles (which are the 2010 DVD's subs with a few tweaks) and the English dub are by and large the same, but there are moments throughout where the text differs from the English audio and gets closer to the raw translated script (http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/kik...pt_kiki_en.txt). The 2010 DVD also does this, but a few alterations have been made since then that get the subs a little closer to the original intentions, such as properly referring to the drink Osono offers to Kiki as "coffee" instead of "hot chocolate".

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Other than Nausicaa, has Disney gotten any of the Ghibli Blu-rays right? It seems that they've f***ed them all up in one way or another.

You can swear here, you know ;).

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Solid Snake swears enough for the rest of us combined. :)

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The next US wave will be on February 3rd, 2015:

"Porco Rosso", "Pom Poko", and "Tales From Earthsea" Blu-rays.

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Ugh Spirited Away when?!

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Per the blu-ray.com review, The Wind Rises has no issues with subtitles, & is in mono which apparently was the filmmakers intent. Did anyone see it in theaters & was the audio just front & center throughout?

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I saw it in theaters but don't remember anything distinctive about the sound mix. I kinda think I would have noticed that.

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My understanding of theatrical mono is not just the center speaker but a single channel of audio sent to all the speakers, i.e., no surround effects or panning.

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Fucking true ;).

Bill Hunt says he contacted Disney about the subtitle issue. He hasn't updated the issue since. I have no doubt it means that he contacted them and they said "Yup. That's right. They're dubtitles. Bye, Mr. Hunt."

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41rztti-4yL.jpg

"When Marnie Was There" will be released in Japan on March 15th 2015

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To the time machine!

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Yikes! Corrected to 2015!

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I purchased Princess Mononoke at Costco. Even with the dubtitles, it was hard to pass. I just wish that they had Kiki and The Wind Rises.

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Just finally got around to getting Kiki and can confirm the English audio has the same problem as the last DVD. Anytime a voice gets high pitched and loud in volume it distorts a little like talking into a fan. :(

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Thank god there's no reason to listen to that track! ;)

Most of the Ghibli dubs are pretty good.

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I agree.

I'm also still upset that they didn't include the new score on Castle in the Sky. It is far more mature and full sounding.