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koinosuke
 Posts: 271 Location: Fukushima, Japan |
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The English dub is pretty old, I believe, plus, this wouldn't fall under Disney's licensing because that only applies to Ghibli films, for which this is way, way too early a movie for that seeing as it pre-dates the studio by nearly two decades. Good observation about the Poppy Hill's theme, by the way. A little known fact is that the failure of Japanese progressive movements in Japan in the 50s and 60s was also the inspiration for Pom Poko, a theme that was more subtly hid in a movie that seems on the head of it to be completely about environmentalism. |
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Mohawk52
 Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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I'll add that Canal Plux, (formally Optimum Asia) titled it "Little Norse Prince" here. |
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Galap
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What was that, out of curiosity? As for Hols, Prince of the Sun, I've always planned to see it. Maybe I'll see it now in response to the article. I really like pile of shame man. It either gives me an opportunity to talk about something that I usually can't, introduces me to something interesting I haven't heard of, or makes me get around to watching something I'd wanted to. Sometimes the title isn't interesting to me at all, but the track record is very good. Also, I'd seen that the Little Norse Prince thing was on Netflix, but never realized that they were the same movie. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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FLCLGainax
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The English dub was produced by American International in 1969, I believe. It was recorded at Titra Productions in NYC.
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doomydoomdoom
 Posts: 278 Location: Michigan, USA |
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Welp, I was browsing a Ghibli-related thread over at Criterion Forum, and noticed that someone posted a link to a Japanese Blu-Ray release on Amazon Japan. It is barebones and, unsurprisingly, contains no English subtitles or dub.
It wasn't mentioned in the article where availability is listed, so yeah, putting that out there. OT: Very interesting fact about Pom Poko, I'll definitely keep that in mind next time I watch it. |
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Sven Viking
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This kind of exemplifies some of the problems common to democratic design and designer freedom, but the end result was a really excellent film in this case. |
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Blanchimont
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It's on other places such as cdjapan etc as well. The naming convention in how they romanize the titles may sometimes cause headaches when searching. Googling with the Japanese name may occasionally be an easier task. It's a relatively new release, December 2013, so the slip might be understandable. Though I wouldn't call this obscure either, if one keeps abreast with Japanese releases this should have been an easy spot... The BD may not include the English dub, but the discussion of it here did arouse my curiosity on how the audio in the stream mentioned(non-accessible for me because of region), would fare in comparison with the audio in a later encode of this which instead used one obtained from a 16mm print reel of this title (Fred Hult dub)?... |
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FireChick
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Discotek just licensed this. Yes.
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