Vicious88
08-07-2009, 08:59 PM
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Back in 2008, Hayao Miyazaki (owner and director of the Japanese Animation Studio: Studio Ghibli) released another timeless animated movie for Japanese audiences, known as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea -- or more to its original title: 崖の上のポニョ (Gake no Ue no Ponyo).
Now, in 2009, advertisement has begun to circulate announcing that Studio Ghibli and Disney will be bringing the movie to the rest of the world with various language translations, although currently only a US release has a set date of arriving in theatres. Indeed, Ponyo will come to American theatres August 14th - that's just over a week from now.
For some such as myself, this raises a slight level of concern, because this will be the first Miyazaki movie exported from Japan with the help of Disney (who's past decade of over-promotion and product placement has gotten a bit annoying). Part of my concern stems from the fact that after Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) had been brought to American audiences, the production rights were purchased by Disney's Miramax and the movie all but disappeared from retail shelves after it's theatre debute. Disney then went in and performed cuts on the original movie and had the newly edited version at an American Movie Rating of PG -which after deep protest and balking by Miyazaki, was restored to its original PG-13 rating.
This will be also the first Miyazaki film brough to America since Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro), back in 2004. There is still no plan in place that I can find, to translate and export the other 3 movies Miyazaki has made since 2004 (Hoshi wo katta hi (2006), Mizugumo monmon (2006), Yadosagashi (2006)).
For those wanting to know more about the movie; I'd highly recommend looking around the internet, or checking out the inspiration for this movie, which was a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson called "The Little Mermaid" -- whether or not this movie will bare any resemblences to Disney's The Little Mermaid remains to be seen.
[On a somewhat related note: This news article is the first News Abroad article to come about entirely of my own research -- no copying and pasting here! Muahahaha!]
Back in 2008, Hayao Miyazaki (owner and director of the Japanese Animation Studio: Studio Ghibli) released another timeless animated movie for Japanese audiences, known as Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea -- or more to its original title: 崖の上のポニョ (Gake no Ue no Ponyo).
Now, in 2009, advertisement has begun to circulate announcing that Studio Ghibli and Disney will be bringing the movie to the rest of the world with various language translations, although currently only a US release has a set date of arriving in theatres. Indeed, Ponyo will come to American theatres August 14th - that's just over a week from now.
For some such as myself, this raises a slight level of concern, because this will be the first Miyazaki movie exported from Japan with the help of Disney (who's past decade of over-promotion and product placement has gotten a bit annoying). Part of my concern stems from the fact that after Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) had been brought to American audiences, the production rights were purchased by Disney's Miramax and the movie all but disappeared from retail shelves after it's theatre debute. Disney then went in and performed cuts on the original movie and had the newly edited version at an American Movie Rating of PG -which after deep protest and balking by Miyazaki, was restored to its original PG-13 rating.
This will be also the first Miyazaki film brough to America since Howl's Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro), back in 2004. There is still no plan in place that I can find, to translate and export the other 3 movies Miyazaki has made since 2004 (Hoshi wo katta hi (2006), Mizugumo monmon (2006), Yadosagashi (2006)).
For those wanting to know more about the movie; I'd highly recommend looking around the internet, or checking out the inspiration for this movie, which was a fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson called "The Little Mermaid" -- whether or not this movie will bare any resemblences to Disney's The Little Mermaid remains to be seen.
[On a somewhat related note: This news article is the first News Abroad article to come about entirely of my own research -- no copying and pasting here! Muahahaha!]