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It seems that any US releases of these films ought to have all three versions -- Japanese, original dub (with rescoring), corrected dub/

jojo wrote:My thing with the dub changes is that I know people who were first exposed to the original first-release dubs, and then when the subsequent releases tinkered with them, it upset people who grew up with those dubs. There are some people who claim that the changes were better because they made it "more accurate to the original" but I'd counter that if they want accuracy to the original, the answer is to simply watch the original Japanese track. The dub tracks are there for a totally different audience and there were some unique elements in them that were worth preserving for that specific audience, in my opinion.

It's pretty obvious they're saying because of nostalgia anyway.

Coming December 3rd in Japan.

A Takahata box set is apparently confirmed for January 2015 at the bottom of this page. Horus: Prince of the Sun is listed, hopefully the rest of his non-Ghibli work is too (and that they get individual releases, in Japan or elsewhere!)

Any word on a release of Kaguyahime yet?

I should have clarified that the image I posted is Kaguyahime. So December 3rd.

I got thrown off by the mention of the box set... ;~}

Has Kaguyahime been screened (theatrically) anywhere outside Japan yet? I rather doubt it will ever get distributed here in the USA.

It comes to US cinemas next month. The trailer.

EddieLarkin wrote:It comes to US cinemas next month. The trailer.

Great news. I'm truly (and happily) surprised.

North America has gotten every new Ghibli release since Mononoke--I would have been surprised instead if they skipped it. The two strikes against Only Yesterday and Ocean Waves missing out on a release here is that along with being difficult to market to the mainstream, they were more importantly "old" movies. But they've always found a way to release a "difficult to market" NEW release, either through Touchstone or Miramax or whatever.

Despite the Japanese, UK and AU Blu-rays coming with literal subtitles, the Disney release will apparently have dubtitles only

EddieLarkin wrote:Despite the Japanese, UK and AU Blu-rays coming with literal subtitles, the Disney release will apparently have dubtitles only

So, so stupid. The Miramax/Disney DVD that is 15-years-old has proper subtitles, so what the hell, Disney?

Christ. It's getting to be a habit that every 2nd or 3rd Disney release of a Ghibli blu has some sort of annoying problem with it.

What other Ghibli Blus have problems?

Nausicaa has an issue with the intro and Castle in the Sky also has dubtitles.

I guess we will see when it gets released. I wonder how that guy got such an early copy though?

manicsounds, that guy (Zac Bertschy) is an editor of an anime news site, so I imagine that Disney sent them to him.

What's the best (affordable) bets for correct versions of Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky?

I wound up buying the Korean clone of the Japanese version of Castle in the Sky from play-asia.com, which wound up being about $35. Can't say about Nausicaa, since for me that issue wasn't the end of the world.

Michael Kerpan wrote:What's the best (affordable) bets for correct versions of Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky?

Bootleg blu rays? :-k

I'm still waiting for further confirmation on Mononoke. Zac is pretty reliable, but sometimes I just don't like him so I'm hoping he's wrong somehow...

Michael Kerpan wrote:What's the best (affordable) bets for correct versions of Nausicaa and Castle in the Sky?

As for subtitled versions, The UK and Australian discs have the best extras with correct literal subtitles, and subs on all the extras. The only problem is the noise reduction applied to the picture to reduce grain. It's not really distracting though.

The Japanese discs are the best in quality and use Master Grade Video Codec for the picture quality, which produces better color but only with MGVC compatible players (which there are only a few), have literal English subtitles, but have no subtitled extras, and they are very expensive.

The Hong Kong/Taiwan/Korean discs are pretty much ports of the Japanese edition in terms of picture (but I believe they don't use the MGVC tech) and have literal English subtitles, but most extras are not ported over, and most don't include English audio, if that's what you would also want.

Looks like UK releases may be the way to go...

Any word on whether or not Kiki suffers from the same problem?