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Here's the brief specs for the UK DVD release:

Tales from Earthsea (Studio Ghibli) - Disc 1: English dub or Japanese with English subtitles; storyboards - Disc 2: Making of...; trailers (11 mins); NTV Special (44 mins); Behind the Microphone (47 mins)

Hey that looks great, any chance to find this releases in UK (I do not ask for the US, that would be way too much wishful though) I mean in a way of any place selling this releases... It looks just as it suppose to for this type of movies.

Sorry for the late answer! You can buy the DVDs from amazon.de but there are just two releases, which have english subs and dubs; Nausicaä and Kikis Delivery service

Nausicaä from the valley of the wind
Kikis Delivery Service

Out on DVD in the UK next month, even if you have a computer with a DVD player, make a Ubuntu partition so you can make it region-free!


Normal Cover


HMV Exclusive Sleeve

Specs:

Anamorphic Widescreen Transfer
Dolby Digital 5.1 Audio (Japanese or English)
Storyboards
Making of
Trailers (11 mins)
NTV Special (44 mins)
Behind the Microphone (47 mins)
Studio Ghibli Trailer Reel

I'd say that the critics were wrong about this film, it's my third favourite Ghibli film, just behind Princess Mononoke and Grave of the Fireflies...

I own the HMV exclusive DVD already, and the trailer linked was for a different movie called "Azur and Asmar".

Jack Skellington wrote:I own the HMV exclusive DVD already, and the trailer linked was for a different movie called "Azur and Asmar".

O.O
How did you manage that? Did you order it off the HMV site or has your country got a different release date?

EricMontreal22 wrote:I'd be surprised if Earthsea got a Razzie--certainlyt hat's extreme. It did divide critics sharply but did get a number of good reviews--mroe than a number. I hate to say a large part of me wonders what it coulda been if Miyazaki (Hayao ) had made it as originally intended...

I love Cat Returns! Least favorite Ghibli film is hardly an insult in my book. It just feels very slight compared to Whisper of the Heart or even other more children fantasy type works liek Kiki's

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http://hogacentral.blogs.com/hoganews/2 ... spber.html

Earthsea won the equivalent to the Razzie in Japan.

Well, Hayao's son made this, so of course it isn't like Hayao's work. I remember when it was in production, Hayao was very very against his son taking the helm and I think they even stopped talking. So maybe his son's filmmaking is much different than Hayao's.

Ghibli’s Tales from Earthsea gets US release
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/ghibli ... lease.html

Shame it took so long for it to be released on the other side of the Pacific. Now it's too old to run for Oscar consideration (films more than two years old are ineligible).

If its released under touchstone, and is imported from Japan, what are the odds of this getting an even smaller release than Ponyo.

ajmrowland wrote:If its released under touchstone, and is imported from Japan, what are the odds of this getting an even smaller release than Ponyo.

Considering it's likely not as commercial as Ponyo, very likely. Also, what will they say in the trailer? "From the son of the Academy Award-winning director of Spirited Away"?

Nah, that'd be a little weird. Its probably going to be "From the studio that brought you Spirited Away."

The film has too many questions left unanswered for its own good. Films can have some questions left unanswered at the ending but Goro in his Earthsea seems to want people to fill in the blanks most of the time with their imagination than provide answers. He's suppose to be telling the story, isn't he? I shouldn't be imagining up most of his story.

estefan wrote:Shame it took so long for it to be released on the other side of the Pacific. Now it's too old to run for Oscar consideration (films more than two years old are ineligible).

In Japan, the film and Goro won awards for Worst Film and Worst Director of 2006 in the Bunshun's Raspberry Awards.

Sky Syndrome wrote:The film has too many questions left unanswered for its own good. Films can have some questions left unanswered at the ending but Goro in his Earthsea seems to want people to fill in the blanks most of the time with their imagination than provide answers. He's suppose to be telling the story, isn't he? I shouldn't be imagining up most of his story.

THANK YOU!!!!

I thought I was the only person wondering about all the unanswered questions. It would be like LOST ending in it's 3rd season, completely unsatisfying. The movie opens with all these grand mysteries coming at us, giving us an interesting story (filled with beautifully designed cities), but then it veers into a BORING sub-plot less then halfway through the film (filled with boring farm fields and a generic-empty castle filled with only 3 guards) and never finishes the original story, just ending on the sub-plot. It's almost as if they expected us to have read the books and know how the rest of the story ends. That's not how you make a movie. It just feels cheap as all the cities feel rather empty and not as populated as they should be and character designs feel a little bland.

Maybe I wasn't paying attention but it starts off with dragons fighting (which shouldn't ever happen, as they don't fight and they shouldn't be in the east with humans), magic people suddenly unable to use their magic, then we're told of a plague whipping out livestock all throughout Earthsea and drought spreading, then we're told the light of the balance of the world going out of balance, and we then see that farmers are leaving their land due to unknown reasons. Once we get to the city Hortown, all of this is forgotten and we are then introduced to a subplot with a creepy wizard that consumes the rest of the movie. I feel like bigger-more interesting things are happening in this universe and we are stuck watching the most boring story possible (with characters that really don't get backstories or any kind of development to make them worth caring about), ignoring the bigger events.

The only good thing I can say about the movie is that I liked the James Horner-esque score (reminded me of his Braveheart soundtrack). The dub was also pretty good but that really doesn't help the movie at all, now does it?

Sky Syndrome wrote:In Japan, the film and Goro won awards for Worst Film and Worst Director of 2006 in the Bunshun's Raspberry Awards.

Yeah, for good reason. It was terrible! I really wish they would've left the REAL Miyazaki direct it as originally planned. Considering how far shame goes in Japan, that award certainly means a lot, especially to a high profile company like Ghibli (Nintendo and Ghibli were part of the to 5 most trusted companies in Japan for quality).

Trailer for Tales from Earthsea
http://animatedviews.com/2010/trailer-f ... -earthsea/

I know this film received lukewarm reviews in Japan, but I am still excited to see it after that trailer.

Hopefully it comes to my city.

Well, somebody made a good point on another forum - it may have received lukewarm reviews based on the fact it was a Ghibli anime. But had it been from another studio, it may have been better received.

Because Ghibli is so often near perfect -- a mediocre Ghibli output is treated like it's horrible, when it's really not that bad.

I can't wait to see this. I hope a theater near me gets it. I saw Ponyo in theaters, but that was given a wider release.

jpanimation wrote:Yeah, for good reason. It was terrible! I really wish they would've left the REAL Miyazaki direct it as originally planned. Considering how far shame goes in Japan, that award certainly means a lot, especially to a high profile company like Ghibli (Nintendo and Ghibli were part of the to 5 most trusted companies in Japan for quality).

...This is one of my favourite movies. Ever.

The english DVD release better not be nearly as long as that of Ponyo.

Gary Rydstrom talks Tales from Earthsea
http://animatedviews.com/2010/gary-ryds ... -earthsea/