Nagisa no Shindobaddo

[M.Abe]

HI, my name is Mia and I'm new to this mailing list. I used to live in NJ 
for four years, it's been a while though, and I'm now settled down in 
Kawasaki. So forgive my poor English.
Anyway I've been studying movie translation (English to Japanese), a caption 
whatever it's called for a year. I read some scripts of American movies and 
change every word into Japanese within the limit of the number of those 
letters permitted to use. There are a lot of rules in a movie translation. 
So I love movies and I usually watch foreign movies, but I thought this 
mailing list would help my studying as I sometimes get lost with what's 
exactly meant in those English scripts.
By the way, about how many people are on this list and how many post will I 
get daily?

James Orr Wrote:
>Haven't been following the thread but "Nagisa no shindobaddo" was the title 
of a hit single >(over a million sold) of the Pink Ladies back in early 
summer 1977.
>If memory serves, "Southern All Stars" sometimes remade old hits, so they
>may have remade this one.

Yes. "Nagisa no shindobaddo" was the song of the Pink Ladies.
Southern All Stars made a song called "Katte ni shindobaddo" and it was 
their debut song. There was a song titled "Katte ni shiyagare" (sung by 
Kenji Sawada) which was also the Japanese title of the French movie, "A bout 
de souffle" (or "Breathless" for the English title) by Godard, its lyrics 
had nothing to do with the movie though, and both "Nagisa no shindobaddo" 
and "Katte ni shiyagare" were hit at the same time, I guess. Then SAS  mixed 
them up for their song title, but it still didn't make any sense at all.
I don't know what shindobaddo means either, I guess it is kind of made up 
word for good looking beach boys or something. I don't think any Japanese 
use the word anyway.

mia





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