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Miyazaki's Spirited Away U.S. Release

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the celebrate-good-times-come-on dept.

soupforare writes "Spirited Away is slated for a US limited theatre release in on Sep. 27th nausicaa.net has a theatre listing and some more info. It looks like some theatres are even going to be showing the subtitled version." No showings near me, but hopefully those prints will make it around. Been wanting to see this one for a long time.

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  1. Roger Ebert has a write up on this... by jdbo · · Score: 5, Informative

    ..which includes a brief interview with Miyazaki.

    Here 'tis.

    It's a rather fawning bit, but this seems to me to be one of the rare interviews in which the director isn't just puffing up his work, but actually discussing it.

    Besides, this movie looks to be that good. I grabbed a VCD bootleg of this in Taiwan many moons ago, and despite the crappy transfer quality + lack of dubbing/subtitles, I watched the entire first half before I began to feel lost (stopped after that so that I could enjoy the movie in its full-fledged form more). Miyazaki is a fine, fine visual storyteller, and by all accounts so far, the dub (lead by John Lassetter of Pixar fame) is an achievement in of itself.

  2. Then why not buy it? by User+956 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Been wanting to see this one for a long time.

    Then why haven't you bought it on DVD?

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    1. Re:Then why not buy it? by Microlith · · Score: 5, Informative

      BECAUSE THAT'S A FUCKING BOOTLEG.

      Buy the Japanese R2 release from cdjapan.co.jp, animaxis.com, or animenation.com, or you could wait for the US release.

      DON'T BUY BOOTLEG!

    2. Re:Then why not buy it? by User+956 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Wouldn't you rather buy an official US release, to encourage distributors to bring us more great stuff from overseas?

      No, I'd rather still buy the official Japanese release, encouraging the MPAA to realize that Region coding is fucking stupid.

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      The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
    3. Re:Then why not buy it? by Microlith · · Score: 5, Informative

      Think harder.

      Both links you posted are of illegal bootlegs.

      NO legit Spirited Away dvd is "All Region"

      BOTH of those sites are KNOWN for exclusively selling bootlegs, especially discoutanimedvd.

      The LEGIT Japan release of the movie was published by Buena Vista Japan.

      THIS IS NOT THAT DVD.