Comparison of Studio Ghibli Blu-ray Releases

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Originally Posted by disneywildcat

I asked my mother to get these titles when she was in Taiwan. Poppy Hill is retailed at 798 TWD (around 27 USD) and Only Yesterday is retailed 888 TWD (around 30 USD). I know JSDVD sells these for slightly lower prices.

Both blu-rays contain English subtitles, Japanese subtitles, Chinese subtitles and Chinese dubtitles.

For Poppy Hill, the Taiwan release has the Postcards of Concept art of the various Latin Quarter Clubhouse characters, the Yokohama Historial Guidemap, Storyboards, the Aoi Teshima Concert 360 in Nicofarre, the Aoi Teshima Music Video of Summer of Goodbye with Yokohama historical footage, and the Press Conference of the Theme Song Announcement.

For Only Yesterday, the Taiwan release has Storyboards, the Making of Only Yesterday, and several trailers and other promotional material.

Only the main features on both films are English subtitled. The bonus features only contain Chinese subtitles.

Poppy Hill is Region A coded, while Only Yesterday is Region A and C coded.

Compared to the Hong Kong releases, the Taiwan releases have more extras (probably due to Disney's role in the Taiwan Blu-ray releases), and compared to the Japanese releases, the Taiwan releases retain some or all of the extras (excluding physical extras in most cases since the Taiwan releases are in standard blu-ray cases).

Forgot to thank you and update the first post! Thanks for all the info!

Just to clarify, these are subtitles, not dubtitles. And did you check the region coding on your player or is that what is stated on the box?

Originally Posted by mojtaba

Thank you so much for this great topic...
Bitrate of Totoro's blu-ray in US ver and JP ver are different, JP ver has a bit lower bitrate. It is easy for me to buy from JAPAN and I think it has nice pack than US. Should I worry about quality? Is there any screenshot comparison between US and JP versions?

I doubt you'll see a noticeable difference in terms of quality IF they use the same source (no different colours/contrast etc).

The US version also has more extras.

I haven't found a comparison of the 2 yet.

Originally Posted by IdeaOfEvil

I just purchased the Japanese Laputa: Castle in the Sky bluray and I took some pictures on how to find the English dub and English subtitles from the menu screen. Also of note, when you play the English dub you can't turn off the Japanese subtitles because the option is greyed out on your bluray player's pop-up menu

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And they are subtitles right, not dubtitles?