#PRINCESS MONONOKE FULL MOVIE IN JAPANESE SUB FREE#
Several times in the past I've spoken about how the US is the only nation in the world which guarantees free speech.
Furthermore, the people who create anime have more artisticf freedom than filmmakers in the US, both because they seem remarkably free of the corporatist pop culture we find here and the fact that they don't have a religious right to smack them upside the head if they don't do something which fits in said group's narrow definition of morality, which they would want to enforce on others. The reason many of us like anime, I believe, is that these gems are more numerous than in other mediums. But, as with any medium, there are also some true gems. Honest question: what have you seen? There is crappy anime out there. I think the main thing people are on about (go look at Ain't It Cool News for an example) is that this is going to affect all the other Miyazaki titles (Kiki's Delivery Service, My Neighbor Totoro, Laputa/Castle in the Sky), and NONE of them will get the "proper" DVD treatment (look at "Grave of the Firefiles" for an example of a well-done anime-on-DVD). Hopefully, this is just going to be a Princess Mononoke thing. This is doubly ironic, since the main reason for that nasty MPAA-DeCSS legal fight is (presumably) the DVD industry asserting its rights against people who want to do things like unraveling region encoding. Then there's the other issue - the fact that the powers-that-be in Japan (Buena Vista Japan to be specific) don't think they can trust the region encoding mechanism to enforce international market segmentation. So it comes down to pissing off a relatively small market of anime fans, or risking the revenue that will be provided when the most popular domestic film in Japanese history makes it to DVD in its home country. Here in the US PM only did small art-house-type business - less that $30 million IIRC.
Since there has NOT been a Japanese-language, region-2 DVD of PM for the Japanese market, the release of a US (region 1) DVD which can be enjoyed in all three ways I just described is problematic to the people who will eventually distribute the PM R2 DVD in Japan. A "good" anime-on-DVD allows people to view it either dubbed, subbed, or neither - in other words just plain Japanese. The problem is that Princess Mononoke was a HUGE hit in Japan - the highest grossing domestic film in that country's history.
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