Monday, February 23, 2015

Movie Here and Movie There

Oscar 2015 is proceeding while I'm getting the idea to write this.
Ilustration of Oscar Statuette

The announcement that the best animated feature film of 2015 is Big Hero 6, leaves me hanging.. What is this? Never had heard of this movie before.

Now I know, in Japan we call this very same Big Hero 6 as BAYMAX (ベイマックス), and it's not the first case I've experienced this.
Can you guess how we call 2013 Disney's Frozen?
No, it's called Ana to Yuki no Jo Ou (アナと雪の女王 ), which literally means "Ana and the Snow Queen".

And if you think that as a very advanced country, Japan will enjoy one of the very first premiere for every Hollywood film, then you are dead wrong..

Let's see some of those examples above:
The premiere of :
Big Hero 6
アメリカ合衆国の旗 2014年11月7日  (7 November 2014)
日本の旗 2014年12月20日(20 December 2014)

Frozen,
アメリカ合衆国の旗 2013年11月27日(27 November 2013)
日本の旗 2014年3月14日  (14 March 2014)

Yup, it is due to the very fact that Japan IS a very advanced country, which makes Japan will enjoy the Hollywood film the last. How could that possible? I believe it's because instead of simply adding the subtitle for every Hollywood movie, as a very advanced country, Japan takes it to another level by DUBBING all of the dialogue from English to Japanese.

Which of these facts shock you the most?

探検!夢!発見! Tanken! Yume! Hakken! Explore! Dream! Discover!

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