Studio Ghibli on Blu-ray?

[xberserker]

Iblard Jikan. This joint project between Studio Ghibli and Ioue Naohisa (the artist who made the art for the fantasy scenes in Whisper of the Heart).



This is on Blu-ray in japan at least
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I want the latest Studio Ghibli film "Tales From Earthsea" on blu-ray. You can get a DVD of it with English subs. But it would be cool to have on blu-ray. Do you think we'll see more of the classic Studio Ghibli films on Blu-ray? I bet they could fit them all on 2 Blu-Ray discs



But my all time favorite Hayao MIYAZAKI film is Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. I actually lived in japan from 84 - 86 and my dad recorded this movie while we lived there.

[atomik kinder]

Disney has the US rights to Ghibli titles, so I would expect to see them on Blu-ray. I would really like to see Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. I didn't like the Earthsea books at all and hated the Sci Fi channel's version, but am curious to see if Ghibli could improve it.

[xberserker]

I love all of Hayao MIYAZAKI films. Ya, I agree Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away would look amazing on Blu-ray. Howl's Moving Castle would be great too!

[GoldenRedux]

Originally Posted by xberserker

Iblard Jikan. This joint project between Studio Ghibli and Ioue Naohisa (the artist who made the art for the fantasy scenes in Whisper of the Heart).



This is on Blu-ray in japan at least
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I want the latest Studio Ghibli film "Tales From Earthsea" on blu-ray. You can get a DVD of it with English subs. But it would be cool to have on blu-ray. Do you think we'll see more of the classic Studio Ghibli films on Blu-ray? I bet they could fit them all on 2 Blu-Ray discs



But my all time favorite Hayao MIYAZAKI film is Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind. I actually lived in japan from 84 - 86 and my dad recorded this movie while we lived there.

I don't read Japanese and I'm not recognising the BD you linked to - could you tell me what title that is please? And, would you know if there are any English subs or dubs on there?

EDIT: Never mind. I just realised you mentioned what it was: Iblard Jikan, duh on me. So, forget the question about subs or dubs as well.

[GoldenRedux]

Not to throw this off topic, but I noticed they will be releasing Flag on BD in Japan as well. Here is the translated link: Flag

Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to say anything about English anywhere. So far, the only Anime titles on BD in Japan that have had any English (either subs and/or dubs) that I know of have been Ghost in the Shell:Innocence, and the forthcoming Blu-ray+DVD releases from Bandai, of which I have two on pre-order from CDJapan (Patlabor and Ghost in the Shell). This makes no sense to me as Japanese releases are Region A and Anime is huge in North America. Why are they not putting English on the titles?

[CptGreedle]

I see al these nice Anime titles in Japan on Blu, and since they are running in the same Region and use the same system (NTSC) we can watch them. So, do any of these have english subitles?

[DaveFi]

Originally Posted by xberserker

Iblard Jikan. This joint project between Studio Ghibli and Ioue Naohisa (the artist who made the art for the fantasy scenes in Whisper of the Heart).



This is on Blu-ray in japan at least
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I want the latest Studio Ghibli film "Tales From Earthsea" on blu-ray.

FYI: Not only does all Japanese Earthsea DVD releases have English subs, but they already have an English dub, and I hear it's a quite good one starring Timothy Dalton and Willem Dafoe. So they definitely have intentions of releasing to a Western audience soon.

[Shin-Ra]

My PAL version of Spirited Away doesn't even fill the screen so I'd love to upgrade to a Blu-ray version.

[Rustmonsteru]

Originally Posted by atomik kinder

Disney has the US rights to Ghibli titles, so I would expect to see them on Blu-ray. I would really like to see Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. I didn't like the Earthsea books at all and hated the Sci Fi channel's version, but am curious to see if Ghibli could improve it.

Having just watched the Earthsea anime two days back I'd say it's not so good. The visuals were nice but the plot, motivation and so forth were clunky. I didn't care much for the characters. I haven't read the books myself so I'm rating it as a standalone film. Still, I don't think anyone needs to lose sleep over waiting till 2009 for Disney to get it out.

[Xboxbydegrees]

Any idea if this movie is subtitled in English?

[atomik kinder]

Originally Posted by Rustmonsteru

Having just watched the Earthsea anime two days back I'd say it's not so good. The visuals were nice but the plot, motivation and so forth were clunky. I didn't care much for the characters. I haven't read the books myself so I'm rating it as a standalone film. Still, I don't think anyone needs to lose sleep over waiting till 2009 for Disney to get it out.

Well that just saved me a purchase. I was tempted to see it because I usually like Ghibli stuff. The books IMO were horribly painful to read. I had to read them for a fantasy literature class and these were the only books that I didn't like.

[DaViD Boulet]

Let's just hope that the 1080p versions aren't window-boxed with loads of edge-ringing and DNR-noise affecting shifting-backgrounds...

All of those have been big problems with the DVD releases... in all regions.

dave

[Frode]

Originally Posted by Shin-Ra

My PAL version of Spirited Away doesn't even fill the screen so I'd love to upgrade to a Blu-ray version.

I'd love to upgrade to a version that doesn't have red tint. The best one right now is the US release, and even that isn't quite what it's supposed to be in the color department.

As for Iblard - it doesn't need subs or dubs really. It's more of an eye (and ear) candy piece.

[u_nick]

Sign me up for Monoke Hime, Spirited Away, and Howl's Moving Castle as definites. The Cat Returns and Totoro as maybes. I have Earthsea on my computer subbed somewhere, and I hope to watch it soon.

[CptGreedle]

Man I would love to own most Ghibli films on Blu-ray.
Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's moving Castle, The Cat Returns, Totoro, Nausicaa, Laputa, Earthsea, Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart, On your Mark (my favorite short animation), Kiki's Delivery Service, Grave of the Fireflies...
<-- Big Ghibli/Miyazaki fan! o^__^o

[WickyWoo]

FYI: Not only does all Japanese Earthsea DVD releases have English subs, but they already have an English dub, and I hear it's a quite good one starring Timothy Dalton and Willem Dafoe. So they definitely have intentions of releasing to a Western audience soon.

They can't release it here till 2009, because of the crappy Sci-Fi Earthsea miniseries has the rights locked up till then

It's not that good anyway, and the author has disowned it.

Ghibli BR, except for new releases are several years away at least, unitl there's more decks out there.

[jadafa]

Originally Posted by DaViD Boulet

Let's just hope that the 1080p versions aren't window-boxed with loads of edge-ringing and DNR-noise affecting shifting-backgrounds...

All of those have been big problems with the DVD releases... in all regions.

dave

Blame that on Disney Buena Vista USA who did all the encoding on DVD for all regions.

[WickyWoo]

Windowboxing is standard on Japanese releases, all of them

They don't like overscan.

[Frode]

Originally Posted by jadafa

Blame that on Disney Buena Vista USA who did all the encoding on DVD for all regions.

They only did Mononoke. Buena Vista Japan did the rest of the R1 ones. The other regions were done by the respective companies doing the releases.

[WickyWoo]

They only did Mononoke. Buena Vista Japan did the rest of the R1 ones. The other regions were done by the respective companies doing the releases

Nope. Miramax did Mononoke, whoever they hired did the authoring.

A contractor for Disney USA does all the Ghibli titles for all regions they own them in. I know this because when the Kiki problem with the sound FX track being mistimed came up, I got in contact with them and he confirmed it, and checked it against the R2/3. When I was suprised he had them, he told me they do all of them here.

You'll find the vast majority of foreign editions of major studio titles are done right here in the US, though often by a lower level contractor than the US release cause they're recycling a lot of the assets.