Chihiro compromises in court

Peter Larson pete
Sat Sep 11 12:14:43 EDT 2004


This is just bizarre. You expect this kind of thing in a sue happy 
country like the US. Anywhere else you'd just call this pathological.

Aaron Gerow wrote:

> Some of you may remember the hubbub when Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi 
> (Spirited Away) was released in Japan on DVD: many complained that the 
> image was too red.
>
> Well, several consumers sued Walt Disney Japan, the sales company, 
> over the affair and a settlement was just announced in the papers. 
> Full details have still not been released, but in exchange for the 
> plaintiffs dropping the suit, Walt Disney will apparently apologize to 
> consumers for causing problems with the color and in the future state 
> clearly when it has adjusted the color of a film when releasing it on 
> DVD.
>
> Aaron Gerow
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>
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> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Yale University
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