Shaggy Dog question

[Jasper Sharp]

Thank you - katakanised Italian names and restaurant menues always cause me trouble.
I see now then - the film is a Japanese-Australian co-production and features an all animal cast voiced by human actors, like Babe, and Hata prepared the Japanese version. Strange how all the Japanese connections have been downplayed in the online english resources on the film, but this does seem to be a feature of the Japanese dog movie sub-genre. Dogs seem to cross international borders far more easily than humans, it seems.

Are you saying you havent seen it Aaron?

On a related note, I just noticed the kanji used to write Inudo Isshin's name - could it be that he was hired by Takashige Ichise the producer to direct All About My Dog as a sort of in-joke, rather like the elephant that turns up in all of Kaizo Hayashi's films?


Jasper


> 
> The JMDB lists Hata as the director of the "Japanese language  
> version" of The Adventure of a Golden Dog (aka Kuruta) and Mario  
> Andreacchio as the director. Following his name, the IMDB lists the  
> film under the title Napoleon with Kulta as an aka title for Japan.  
> That was released outside of Japan and it iooks like its available on  
> DVD for all of you eager to see it! And it gets superb ratings on  
> Amazon.com!
> 
> Aaron Gerow
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