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The Future of Ghibli US Releases

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the here's-hoping-people dept.

ChibiOne writes "Nausicaa.net is reporting very interesting news regarding the US release for the works of (Hayao Miyazaki's) Studio Ghibli. Steven Alpert (VP at Tokuma International, parent of Studio Ghibli) spoke after the screening of "Porco Rosso" in New York and revealed several new release plans. AnimeOnDVD has a complete report." It says "every Ghibli feature film should be released in the US by the end of next year" as well as a widescreen re-release of Totoro. Here's hoping!

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  1. Disney dismay by Snart+Barfunz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wish there were some way for these to be released through another studio - somehow the Disney association devalues them for me. But it's great news that the dual language DVD is coming out. I prefer to watch Miyazaki's movies in Japanese with English subtitles, rather than hearing voices which don't fit the characters, or lip-synch properly.

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  2. Pretty light on details. by andih8u · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So who's going to be distributing this? Will it be a major studio with wide theatrical release? Or a quest to find a theatre that's playing it? All in all, they'll still find out that US audiences in general still won't be interested in it as most people still regard anime as "cartoons", so a theatrical release will be a money loser for them.

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    1. Re:Pretty light on details. by nyamada · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Disney is distributing this -- they have a deal with Studio Ghibli for all their works, I believe.

      I believe that it will _not_ get theatrical release in the US, but will be released straight to DVD, as was "Castle in the Sky" and "Kiki's Delivery Service". More's the pity.

  3. Re:Has Studio Ghibli ditched Disney yet? by MooCows · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are some Region 2 releases with English subs, like Nausicaa

    You'll have to import them from Japan though.

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  4. Re:Has Studio Ghibli ditched Disney yet? by F34nor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They became EVIL when they undermined the US Constitution with the Sunny Bono Copyright Extension act. The creation of intellectual oligarchy is by far their worst crime.