Subtitling Foreign Films in Japanese

[Roland Domenig]

TITRA Vienna will soon start a project of subtitling several German film
classics (on celluloid) into several languages, among them also into
Japanese. Technically this isn't a problem any more if you use the right
software. The bigger problem is that their staff can't speak or read
Japanese, so they can't check the results. Also, since the market seems
rather limited, I doubt that they will actively venture into languages like
Japanese, Chinese or Arabic. Another question are the costs. I presume it is
cheaper to subtitle in Japan. 

Roland Domenig
Institute of East Asian Studies
Vienna University



 
> I've never heard of anyone subtitling Japanese outside of 
> Japan, at least for celluloid. You're not talkin' video, right?
> 
> To investigate prices, I'd contact people who are always 
> subbing as inexpensively as possible. Try Yamagata, or 
> Ishizaka Kenji at the Japan Foundation.
> 
> Markus
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Oct 15, 2004, at 4:55 AM, El-Khash Najib wrote:
> 
> > Dear Kinejapaners,
> >
> > If you have a group of films in a foreign language (in 
> Arabic in the 
> > case of this inquiry) and would like to superimpose 
> Japanese subtitles 
> > on them for showing them in Japan, what would be the most effective 
> > way/place to do that?
> >
> > I suppose American or European companies that do Japanese 
> subtitling 
> > might not have Arabic-speaking staff, but if I am able to supply 
> > accurate time codes for the subtitles...etc, would overseas 
> be cheaper 
> > than Japan?
> >
> > In any case, even if it is a known fact that Japanese 
> subtitling costs 
> > are cheaper if done overseas, I would still be interested 
> in knowing 
> > the retatively cheap places in Japan as well, as the institute 
> > financing this project might insist on doing eveything in Japan.
> >
> > Any hints and/or links would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Najib El-Khash