Only Yesterday in September - Menus added
27-08-2006 10:52 | 3242 views | Dave Foster
Optimum Home Entertainment have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Only Yesterday for 4th September 2006 priced at £19.99. Beautifully evoking both the 1960s and 1980s, Only Yesterday is a double period piece, and the quintessential drama of Japanese school-day nostalgia. Directed by Isao Takahata and produced by Hayao Miyazaki, it is a classic of the anime medium and the last movie from the world-beating Studio Ghibli catalogue previously unreleased in the United Kingdom… until now.
Presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with Japanese DD2.0 audio and optional English subtitles, extras include storyboards, a 46-minute making of documentary and trailers.
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Presented in 1.85:1 Anamorphic Widescreen with Japanese DD2.0 audio and optional English subtitles, extras include storyboards, a 46-minute making of documentary and trailers.
Artwork and menus follow...
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Kudos to Optimum Uk for releasing it without waiting for Disney's English dub. Its high time the people at Disney and Buena Vista grew up. Looks like they've shelved the R1 release of the film indefinitely since it deals with mature subjects like menstruation and puberty. Balls to them....Who, anyway, is waiting for their English dub. I'm getting this extraordinary piece of art as soon as its available, not just to complete my Ghibli collection but to add an exceptional film to my collection as well!
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I beleive that The Cat Returns is a sequel of sorts to this?
On the subject of dubs, I generally pick them depending on the film -- i.e. Totoro is quintessentially Japanese, as is this film and Spirited Away, and I would rather watch any film set in Japan in Japanese with Subs.
On the other hand, Howl's Moving Castle and Kiki's Delivery Service are set in some mid-European, Victorian alternate reality and seem right in English. Only Porco Rosso presents a real problem with that idea, as it's combined French, Italian and English! I'll settle for English dub on that too.
With the more complex films, like Mononoke, Japanese works better simply because the dub is, well, too wordy. Sorry Mr. Gaiman! Even you couldn't make it work in English... and who wans to hear some actor running thru lines at 100 words per minute, just to get all the info in? Read the subtitles.
Good call, jafar, on the Disney dubs. While Spirited Away was acceptable, and I mainly enjoyed Howl and Kiki in the Disney dubs, their insistence on using movie star voices over trained voice artists is annoying. Totoro was massacred by that evil munchkin Dakota Fanning, and Billy Crystal was atrocious as Calcifer in Howl, mainly because he brought to mind Mike in Monsters Inc and ruined the illusion the film had created.
Let's hope this is not an NTSC->PAL transfer, eh?
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Originally Posted by evilcat:
I beleive that The Cat Returns is a sequel of sorts to this?
"The cat returns" happens to be a very weak follow-up to "Whisper of the heart" and by no way related to "Only yesterday". "Whisper of the heart" is another not-to-be-missed Ghibli film. Not to mention here, it also features in the top ten greatest animated films ever, on imdb.com
Totoro was massacred by that evil munchkin Dakota Fanning, and Billy Crystal was atrocious as Calcifer in Howl, mainly because he brought to mind Mike in Monsters Inc and ruined the illusion the film had created
CANT AGREE MORE!!!
Let's hope this is not an NTSC->PAL transfer, eh?
Hope, someone could shed some light on that part, even I'm curious to know!
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Originally Posted by evilcat:
I beleive that The Cat Returns is a sequel of sorts to this?
Whisper of the Heart is the prequel to the Cat Returns.
Anyway, I've been waiting for this for a while. I wish Takahata would do more films for Ghibli.
I hope this isn't a NTSC to PAL transfer like most of the other Ghibli releases but the ones that have been authored by Optimum are Film to PAL. All Ghibli releases except Spirited Away and the Little Norse Prince were authored by Madman in Australia (The Castle of Cagliostro was interlaced but so was the Japanese DVD).
Edit: Damn, beaten to the Whisper of the Heart comment.
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And fully agree about "Whisper of the Heart". What a film. Well, it's Ghibli isn't it? The only film that they've done that's dissapointed is The Cat Returns.
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They did the same thing with Spirited Away and just repackaged the original 2-disc set as number 13 of the collection.
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Thanks for the information! Hmmm... it's a pity that I already bought Grave of the Fireflies and Spirited Away before I heard of the collection series. I guess I will have to "Photoshop" two new DVD covers in that case, so they match the other covers in the series.
Is there anyone who bought the three disc Spirited Away edition? Is it worth buying if you already have the two-disc release?
Now let's hope Optimum will also include Open Waves in the collection.
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But why the difference in run time??? Have they deleted certain scenes in UK?? Oh God, No.....
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Originally Posted by Maffew:
This and Open Waves I'm still needing for my Ghibli Collection. That and Castle of somethingorother, which is on Film4 this week.
Castle of Cagliostro, which isn't a Ghibli film (just directed by Miyazaki), so you don't have to count it :D
Technically Nausicaa isn't a Ghibli film either, although every DVD release has the studio ghibli intro screen (I think), it was made before the company was formed in 1985. Laputa was the first Studio Ghibli production.
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But regardless of how uninformed I am, I'll have them all once this gets released! Bwahahaha!
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Also, any ideas when it was re-released?
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Both editions seem to have the same catalogue number (OPTD0085), though if it's any help in tracking it down, the re-packaged silver version has the BBFC rating as 12, whereas all the cover shots online of the gold edition clearly show the rating as PG. www.play.com, www.amazon.co.uk and www.bensonsworld.co.uk all list the rating as 12, despite showing the cover with a PG rating - could be an indication of which version they actually have in stock.
@ jafar: The difference in length is accounted for by PAL's faster running time compared to film. Film runs at 24 frames per second, PAL runs at 25 frames per second. When films are transferred directly to PAL they are just sped up and run at 25fps instead of 24fps, thus shortening the running time by 4%, hence the loss of 5 minutes over the total length of the film. Don't worry, there's nothing to suggest any scenes have been cut!
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Originally Posted by temsonic:
Don't worry, there's nothing to suggest any scenes have been cut!
Thanks a lot Temsonik, that's really great news!! That means I can preorder it without any further delay :D
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EDIT 6/9/06: It's been posted. Phew!
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