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The Films of Studio Ghibli |OT| Creating New Worlds
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SCULLIBUNDO
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Holy shit. He's colouring the manga too? :O
If it's half as good as his Nausicaa manga, it'll be the second best thing he's ever done.
If it's half as good as his Nausicaa manga, it'll be the second best thing he's ever done.
Yah, I've seen the movie. I know the film doesn't focus on the war, but
the development of the Zero (or the A5M..it's predecessor) easily occupies 40 percent of the running time.
While I do agree this trailer hits the tone of the film a lot more than the previous one, I definitely think Disney is sort of hiding the specifics of that side of the film in anticipation of it being potentially controversial to an American audience.
Honestly, I think it's smart. I've heard a lot of people saying the film romanticizes the development of a weapon of war, but I don't think Miyazaki's in it to make any sort of specific political statement about World War 2.
Agreed. I'm not arguing that the controversy is earned. I just think Disney is probably going to cautiously market around those elements of the film.
Or maybe not. I guess time will tell. I do know that you can't really find a discussion of The Wind Rises online without all this bullshit coming up.
Lovely. Thanks for the impressions.
Loved your impressions zeroshiki. Thanks!
I have to ask though, is it as emotionally devastating as Grave of the Fireflies? I swear, that movie makes me cry like a baby every time. >_>
Of course not. Nothing is as bad as Grave of the Fireflies. Kaguya-hime does have a sad sequence but it doesn't weigh on the movie. You will leave the theater feeling uplifted, of that I am sure.
Whew, thats good for a change! I am not sure I would be able to endure another story like GotF. Such a sad movie! Amazing, but sad.
Don't ever be concerned about cross-posting whatever. Ghibli news is slim as it is, despite Nausicaa wiki surviving on the carcass of what it once was and Ghibli World feeling some sense of narcosis.
ZombiePlatypus
Member
That's really surprising. I can't imagine most kids not getting totally bored watching this movie, but I guess Disney's counting on the Ghibli name to sell it. I really wanted to like this film a lot more than I did.
Here are some images of Miyazaki working on his new manga:
So freaking ready for this. Cannot wait to see what he comes up with.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Heads up: the Blu ray of 'From Up on Poppy Hill' is only $12 on Amazon today!!
Thanks for the impressions. The wait will be a long one.
Takahata doing fantasy doesn't surprise me, though. He's not exactly new to it! I wonder what his career would be like - at least in how it's perceived outside of Japan - if he'd worked less on TV.
Well, at the very least, the most famous(well-regarded?) Ghibli movie internationally (Spirited Away notwithstanding) is probably a Takahata work. Grave is always brought up as an example of animation going beyond kids' stuff and something that made Roger Ebert say:
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-grave-of-the-fireflies-1988
Ebert said:
Kaguya-hime came in number 1 in the weekend box office rankings. It made 280 million yen its first 2 days (2 million dollars). It came in 78% of the opening weekend of Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children Ame and Yuki and will probably settle in somewhere below that. If anyone's curious, its also below Kaze Tachinu's first week (ﾟдﾟ
！of nearly 1 billion yen.
！of nearly 1 billion yen.RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Kaguya-hime came in number 1 in the weekend box office rankings. It made 2 billion yen its first 2 days (20 million dollars). It came in 78% of the opening weekend of Mamoru Hosoda's Wolf Children Ame and Yuki and will probably settle in somewhere below that. If anyone's curious, its also 15% Kaze Tachinu's first week (ﾟдﾟ
Wow Miyazaki is still da king. I take it Takahata's films don't have the same amount of...cache, hype, and prestige as Miyazaki's films do in Japan?
Whoops wrong numbers. Thanks to Articalys for correcting me.
Yeah, Takahata barely makes movies anymore and his name doesn't have the same cache as Miyazaki.
Yeah, Takahata barely makes movies anymore and his name doesn't have the same cache as Miyazaki.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
zeroshiki, your podcast appearance is up!
http://thatothersquadcast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-11-26T15_51_56-08_00
Listen to a rambling discussion of Kaguya-hime no Monogatari!
http://thatothersquadcast.podomatic.com/entry/2013-11-26T15_51_56-08_00
Listen to a rambling discussion of Kaguya-hime no Monogatari!
Cool! Thanks.
Probably, considering Disney localized all the other films.
Final Boss
Banned
We're getting some Steelbooks in the UK.
Why is the US shit for ghibili releases?
Mononoke in particular could be a problem because of the Miramax thing. Does Disney have the rights to the film?
Our packaging isn't great but the transfers have been excellent. My only real complaint is how Disney used dubtitles in Castle in the Sky. I only know a few scattered Japanese phrases but even I can tell that the translation is strange.
I am unaware of this problem. What is it about? I saw some films like Grave of the Fireflies that have different versions from different publishers up for sale on amazon. There is no Disney version for that one. Is it a similar issue in this case you mentioned?
thequickandthedead
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Does Kaguya-Hime involve any rotoscope?
I don't think so. It's exceedingly rare for Japanese animators to make use of rotoscope. Rotoscope is not really that common anywhere in traditional animation, for that matter, but even less so in Japan.
Shinji Hashimoto (the main lead animator of the film) has been known in the past to film himself acting out certain actions to use as reference footage for his animation, and animators generally use quite a bit of reference footage when animating realistically, but there's no tracing involved. He just watched the video and tried to get down the feel of the movement from that. I think there's even someone acting out a scene in one of the trailers in the little making-of video they posted here
They probably have the rights and just released Mononoke under Miramax to keep Disney PG
outunderthestars
Banned
Oh God. Why don't we get these in the US?
MikeHattsu
Member
Guess they will use Touchstone Pictures if they release on Blu-Ray then, like they do for The Wind Rises.
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
There definitely will be a US Blu Ray release of Princess Mononoke.
Sentai Filmworks did the US Grave of the Fireflies Blu Ray and GKids handled the US theatrical/home video distribution of From Up on Poppy Hill, so even if Disney doesn't release PM (I'm not sure if Disney even owns the rights to PM anyway), there's still a very good chance that Sentai or GKids will bring it over.
EDIT: Or yeah, Disney could release it under their Touchstone label.
Final Boss
Banned
Amazon has all the ghibli blu-rays for $19.99, cheapest I've ever seen them
Final Boss
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do you have a link to this specifically?
Final Boss
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Thanks
ChoklitReign
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Still too expensive. Why did I have to buy a dozen BRs again this year? Just release a complete box set for 200 bucks and I'll finally buy them.
Final Boss
Banned
It's still not "cheap" but it's the cheapest I've seen them
Mr. Wonderful
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'Sup guys?
Final Boss
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SCULLIBUNDO
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So after yesterday's New York Film Critics Circle saw The Wind Rises win best animated feature, it just won today at the National Board of Review.
Get that polish ready, Miyazaki.
Get that polish ready, Miyazaki.