Academy award-winning South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho rightly said, "Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films." In a perfect world, his suggestion would stand true for all movies, animated and live-action.
With foreign language films, there's always been the question of authenticity vs. ease of watching. Do you watch a film in its original language with subtitles, or do you watch a dub? For Japanese animation veterans, Studio Ghibli, who began a partnership with Disney in the late 1990s ahead of the release of "Princess Mononoke," the answer is simple. They choose to work with voice actors and screenwriters who can work towards translating Japanese to English in a genuine, conversational way that maintains the essence of the original.
The Biggest Challenge Is Getting The Dialogue To Sound Natural
Don and Cindy Hewitt wrote the English screenplay adaptations for...
With foreign language films, there's always been the question of authenticity vs. ease of watching. Do you watch a film in its original language with subtitles, or do you watch a dub? For Japanese animation veterans, Studio Ghibli, who began a partnership with Disney in the late 1990s ahead of the release of "Princess Mononoke," the answer is simple. They choose to work with voice actors and screenwriters who can work towards translating Japanese to English in a genuine, conversational way that maintains the essence of the original.
The Biggest Challenge Is Getting The Dialogue To Sound Natural
Don and Cindy Hewitt wrote the English screenplay adaptations for...
- 9/26/2022
- by Fatemeh Mirjalili
- Slash Film
Titled after Kaku Arakawa’s Nhk documentary about the Japanese anime visionary Hayao Miyazaki “Never-Ending Man”, Steve Alpert’s business memoir “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man” tells the story of the famed anime studio from a different perspective, that of business.
In the middle of the nineties, the then-Disney employee Steve Alpert was scouted by Toshio Suzuki from Studio Ghibli to head the newly opened international division of the studio’s parent company, the conglomerate Tokuma Shoten. For the next fifteen years, he worked for the company, helping it grow and get numerous international deals. Together with that, he was also a member of the board of directors of the studio and the only non-Japanese at that, in the entire company. As such, Alpert had a unique position within the company. As a high-level insider, he had direct contact both with the boss of Tokuma Shoten,...
In the middle of the nineties, the then-Disney employee Steve Alpert was scouted by Toshio Suzuki from Studio Ghibli to head the newly opened international division of the studio’s parent company, the conglomerate Tokuma Shoten. For the next fifteen years, he worked for the company, helping it grow and get numerous international deals. Together with that, he was also a member of the board of directors of the studio and the only non-Japanese at that, in the entire company. As such, Alpert had a unique position within the company. As a high-level insider, he had direct contact both with the boss of Tokuma Shoten,...
- 8/12/2020
- by martin
- AsianMoviePulse
Harvey Weinstein was notorious for cutting films behind his directors’ backs, but one filmmaker Weinstein apparently couldn’t touch was Hayao Miyazaki. Disney made a deal in 1996 with Miyazaki’s animation powerhouse Studio Ghibli to release English-language dubs of its films in the United Sates, and Weinstein’s Disney subsidiary Miramax was tasked with the release of Miyazaki’s “Princess Mononoke.” Weinstein’s reputation proceeded him so strongly that Miyazaki’s producer sent the studio executive a samurai sword with a note that read “No cuts” attached to the blade. It turns out the warning wasn’t enough to prevent a Weinstein attack.
In his upcoming memoir “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli” (via Cartoon Brew), former Studio Ghibli executive Steve Alpert reveals that Weinstein went berserk on him when Miyazaki refused to listen to Weinstein’s request to cut the “Princess Mononoke” runtime from 135 minutes to 90 minutes.
In his upcoming memoir “Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli” (via Cartoon Brew), former Studio Ghibli executive Steve Alpert reveals that Weinstein went berserk on him when Miyazaki refused to listen to Weinstein’s request to cut the “Princess Mononoke” runtime from 135 minutes to 90 minutes.
- 6/9/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Watch the latest trailer for The Win Rises directed by Hayao Miyazaki. The animated adventure features the voices of Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Stephen Alpert, Morio Kazama, Keiko Takeshita and Mirai Shida. Toshio Suzuki produces, and the Touchstone Pictures release from Studio Ghibli opens in limited theaters on February 21st, 2014 and expands the week after that. In The Wind Rises, Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes, inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the world’s most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life, depicting key historical events, including the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923...
- 11/19/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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