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Summary: Original audio track is missing!
Review: It is sad to say, but original japanese audio track isn't in this DVD.
Only english dubbed, and I just wonder why.
In the disk, there is lot of room in both languages and subtitled version, or even without subtitles is better than this.
Not that dubbing people is done something wrong, but publishing company lives in stone age.
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Summary: Maybe a bad DVD, but the movie makes up for it!
Review: Ok I read some of the reviews for this movie, and all people are doing is complaining about how bad the DVD is! But really it doesn't matter, are you actually going to listen to the Japanese audio or anything, most likely not! I mean this movie is awesome, can't people just be satisfied with the quality of the picture and stuff! This is an awesome movie we're talking about, who cares what's on the DVD! And take a look at the price to, it's soo... LOW! It's worth it in the end!
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Summary: the cover is decieving
Review: i was expecting the cartoon to be as bright as the cover but i was sorely disappointed. the endless giggling annoyed me and my little sisters. the colors are just as dark and gloomy as any other japanese animated film. (excluding metropolis) im not bad mouthing japanese anime because i love the style. But this style did not suit this particular film. as i said before, the cover was decieving.
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Summary: A wonderful movie ruined by a poor DVD release
Review: I recently watched My Neighbor Totoro in its original Japanese language, in widescreen, with nearly perfect subtitles. It was a great movie, possibly Miyazaki's best in my opinion. Unfortunately, it was a bootleg copy and the respective studios got no money from my purchase.20th Century Fox lost my money to bootleggers by issuing a substandard DVD aimed at kids. While I don't have an issue with them targeting children rather than older anime fans, they needn't have made a dumbed down release to do so. The only explanation for making a fullscreen-only version is that they meant for this to be viewed by kids, who are customarily distracted by the black bars. This could easily have been a two-sided disc at little extra cost, and they would have sold probably twice as many copies. The dubbing/subbing debate is less crucial, but since the Japanese language track already exists and the script has already been translated into English, it would have been a negligible amount of work to add subtitles, and would have satisfied picky anime fans like myself. I will buy this movie from Fox when they decide to release the real version.
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Summary: No Japanese Sound?!?
Review: My Neighbor Totoro is a great film and a must have part of even a modest anime collection. But when I ordered this DVD, it never even crossed my mind that there wouldn't be the original language track. Japanese sound is standard on any anime DVD. Although the English dub isn't that bad, I'd still like to have the option to watch it in its original form. I feel as if I only have half of the movie. If youÂfre looking for the original Japanese, unfortunately you'll need to look somewhere else.
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Summary: Buyer beware
Review: I made the mistake of removing the wrapping before looking at the details on this DVD, so I can't return it even though I haven't watched it and won't. I also made the mistake of buying this without checking out the reviews. This is not the original version of the film. It's dubbed (no original audio) and equally bad, it's been violated with the completely unnecessary pan and scan. Come on, America, even on my 9-inch TV, I'd rather see a film in its original aspect ratio. This goes into my white elephant heap.
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Summary: Wonderful Film! But DVD presentation upsetting...
Review: I love this film, and the english dub is actually quite good. If you have not seen the film, watch it! BUT.. I believe Fox has misjudged its audience and created a DVD that I find lacking. Sure, its animated and made mostly for children but I do not have any children and could not wait to get this DVD. I was EXTREMELY disappointed to find that there was no original Japanese language track on this DVD. I know this sounds like previous reviews but I was so disappointed about the missing Japanese track that I had to add my voice here.
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Summary: Region 3 with widescreen and japanese audio
Review: * for US release, ***** for the anime. For those of you that must have it, there is also a Hong Kong region 3, two disc release with slectable Japanese/Cantonese audio, selectable Englsih/Chinese sub, in 1.85:1 aspect ratio (special features disc 2 is Cantonese only). Available on online stores that carries region 3 DVDs (like yesasia, pokerindustries, hkflix, etc) and also in local Chinatown video stores that also carries region 3 DVDs from Hong Kong. Of course you will need an all region player or a low cost modifiable region one player like Apex, Daewoo, Cyberhome.
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Summary: Stunning film but poor mastering............
Review: I saw this for the first time recently, what a warm and truly wonderful film. But when I went to find it on DVD I was appalled to find it only in pan-and-scan(!) I'm shaking my head that the studio feels they need to dumb down the format to appeal to preschoolers and their babysitters. I can hear the Totoro crying as I write... So what did I do? I went to Ebay and found the all-region Japanese pressing, in letterbox, with both English and Japanese audio. Don't encourage the studios by buying their full-screen monstrosities (sorry Amazon).
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Summary: only english sound, no japanese & caption
Review: Don't buy this
2.0 stereo
no caption
no Japanese sound
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