Angry Spirited Away Fans Strike Back

peter_gzowski writes "Anime News Network is reporting that, 'The Japanese consumers in the Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures of Japan have filed a lawsuit against Walt Disney Japan over the red tint on the Japanese DVD release of Spirited Away.' Japanese consumers who purchased the Spirited Away DVD were very disappointed when they discovered a red tint to the film. A hundred thousand consumers complained, but Buena Vista Home Entertainment Japan (a subsidiary of Walt Disney) pretended nothing was wrong with the disc. The original source of news of the suit can be found (in Japanese) at Mainichi. No response from Disney yet."

Comments

A lawsuit is redundant

[ites]

When a company makes an inferior product consumers can simply stop buying it. Even with a color tint, a film is perfectly watchable, so there are no grounds for a lawsuit. What's next? Let's sue Hollywood for films with bad acting, poor direction or lousy scripts. Or perhaps we can sue a restaurant where the food tastes lousy.
I defend Disney here - every business has the right to produce inferior products and watch its consumers walk away.

The Japs obviously don't use NTSC

[rogerzilla]

If they did they'd think strange tints were normal ;0) Never The Same Colour.