Nausicaa, Porco Rosso, Totoro coming to dvd

[Green]

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In other news, not a day after we posted word of this in The Rumor Mill, we've gotten official confirmation from Buena Vista that Wave 2 of the Miyazaki Collection will street on August 31st. Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Porco Rosso and My Neighbor Totoro will be released as 2-disc special editions (SRP $29.99 each). All three titles will feature newly produced English language voice tracks as well as the original Japanese audio. Also included will be complete storyboards, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more. All three films will be presented in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio). My Neighbor Totoro and Porco Rosso will feature Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, while Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind will be mono.

I can't wait. I imported Porco a while back, it's a great movie. I've yet to see the other ones, and I'm especially dying to see Nausicaa.

[epmode]

i'm a bit wary of any attempt to stuff nausicaa into a 2 hour movie, but it worked for akira (in a strange sort of way.) still, curiosity will probably win me over by the time it's released.

porco rosso came out after spirited away, correct? i don't really know much about it. isn't it about pig-people, or something?

[bbobb]

Nausicaa is a marvelous movie.

Porco Rosso came out quite a bit before Spirited Away, it's a fairly fun movie... but no Nausicaa.

[kabuki]

Buying all three.

[skelly]

I really prefer the Nausicaa anime to the manga. I saw the movie before reading the books, but ... it's really amazing.

[Green]

The Nausicaa movie is super old, like Cagliostro old, and it's only based on the first book. Porco Rosso came out in the early ninties, like a decade before Spiritied Away. It's about a pig man, yes, but everyone else is human.

[epmode]

The Nausicaa movie is super old, like Cagliostro old, and it's only based on the first book. Porco Rosso came out in the early ninties, like a decade before Spiritied Away. It's about a pig man, yes, but everyone else is human.

i knew about nausicaa, but porco rosso is new to me.

i don't follow anime news very much anymore, so please clear something up for me: around the time spirited away was released in america, i saw preliminary sketchwork for miyazaki's next project, and it looked like it had something to do with pig-people, for lack of a better term. what has he done since that film was released?

[skelly]

The Nausicaa movie is super old,

1984

like Cagliostro old,

1979

and it's only based on the first book.

I wouldn't say that. It diverges hugely from the then-unfinished manga, but does conclude the story quite nicely with no hanging threads. It's kind of a different story (or the same story told a different way) with the same/similar characters.

[Green]

Epmode, Miyazaki's next movie is Howl's Moving Castle. I don't know if any pig people are in it, though.

[Zerodash]

I wonder if the Totoro dub will be the same one used when it was released here in theaters in the mid 90's. I know Buena Vista had nothing to do with that.