Dubbed anime and kung fu movies are dumb. It's not even watching the same movie. Fuck that noise. The main point of me studying japanese was so I could watch japanese movies without subs in the native language. Seriously, never bring up dubbed movies ever again.Expand Quote
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A big "Fuck Yeah" and "What took me so long" to these Japanese masterpieces. Howl's Moving Castle is up next.
I saw this years ago at an outdoor film festival where my view of the subtitles was almost completely obstructed by a speaker and was still amazed by it. I need to check out the dubbed version.
Subtitles are almost always preferable to dubbed, but I've heard good things about the American dub on this one (I know there was some money/star-power behind it).
Either way, my main point was that I need to see it again since my seating meant I got only half (possibly less) of the plot the first time around.
I just watched
Had a blast. It looked like a terrible B-movie but ended up being a Cronenberg-like B-movie. It's a good time, I recommend it.