The most important japanese animation films

[Livia Monnet]

Markus,where can one get the Studio Ghibli program on Mononokehime
abroad.Thanks.  At 09:19 00-05-04 +0900, you wrote:
>The television program I mentioned yesterday was preempted by a mind-numbing
>live broadcast of the bus hijacking (the NHK announcer never left his two
>page script for about an hour....we kept checking to see if they'd attack
>the bus just to end his parroting, but the kidotai waited until 5 this
>morning).
>
>There is another program on tonight at 9:00, NHK-G, on Miyazaki and young
>people.
>
>By the way, I just saw the Japanese subtitled version of the American
>version of Mononokehime. It is being released along with a 15-20 minutes
>documentary on Miyazaki's junket to the Canadian and American premiers
>(there was also a lengthier documentary about a month ago about the same
>thing). Things I found curious:
>
>----Why release it? Well, I suppose it's both the curiosity of seeing the
>film in English and the star quality of some of the voice actors, mixed with
>a dose of nationalism (anime conquering Hollywood).
>
>----No one left the theater until the long credits were over. Enjoying the
>music?
>
>----The subtitles felt minimal, what they sometimes call "thin subs." Very
>short, to the point, easy to read, and a fair number of furigana for the
>difficult words. I noticed an Asahi Shinbun article that said many of the
>people who have seen this version say, "Ah, _now_ I get it!" The double
>translation simplified the plot so that it's easier to consume. I'm curious
>to find out how exactly that happened!
>
>----Studio Ghibli is selling a fairly thick program on the film's reception
>abroad. It's quite interesting, and includes things like the American
>(English) press kit, a list of American articles with annotations indicating
>thumbs up/down/# of stars, etc. etc.
>
>Gotta go,
>
>Markus
>
Livia Monnet

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