Netflix gets international right to Studio Ghibli Library (excluding US, Canada and Japan)
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First batch of films up on the service now.
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Today is the day, the first lot of Studio Ghibli films are up here in New Zealand and will either be up in the rest of the world or be available come midnight local time from what I can tell. Watching the opening of Castle in the Sky right now.
Great that more people will get to see these. I don't have Netflix and I've already have them on my Kodi box for years anyway.
Interesting. It's also the only one I've seen available on an in-flight entertainment system.
Cool, I have only seen Princess Mononoke I think, we had that one on vhs. Pretty movie as I recall
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A combination of AT&T (for their HBO Max streaming services) and GKids who haven't sold off the Canadian part of the North American rights to any streamers yet.
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I've watched Castle in the Sky and the start of My Neighbour Totoro and from what I can tell they both use the Disney dub which is pretty surprising but also very cool as those are for the most part the versions I grew up watching or at least the ones I rewatched (in the case of Totoro as it wasn't redone until the mid 2000s) hopefully the rest have the Disney dubs as well.
Ghibli actually owns those dubs, so they're not needing to be licensed from anyone other than Ghibli.
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Just saw My Neighbor Totoro.
I've wanted to see if for over a decade, but never got around to buying it or downloading it.
Loved it. Not exactly what I expected, but it was adorable nonetheless.
I've wanted to see if for over a decade, but never got around to buying it or downloading it.
Loved it. Not exactly what I expected, but it was adorable nonetheless.
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In my opinion watching it as a child is special as it really captures childhood imagination well. Still glad you enjoyed it.
Man it had been ages since I last watched Porco Rosso. I forgot just how fucking great it is.
I never knew Miyazaki had planned a sequel.
I never knew Miyazaki had planned a sequel.
I came home sick today and watched it when I realised it was in the service. This movie makes me so damn happy.
out of this first batch, you can skip ocean waves and tales from earthsea unless you become a hardcore ghibli fan. the other five (kiki, laputa, totoro, only yesterday, porco) are all incredible must-see timeless classics
It rules so much. Somehow both tickles the same pulp adventure part of my brain as Tintin and Indiana Jones and manages to be quite quiet and contemplative. Top tier Miyazaki imo.
Cool. Never seen any of their films apart from about half of The Red Turtle which was ehhh..
I'll give some others a look.
I'll give some others a look.
The Red Turtle is co-produced by Ghibli, but not really made by Ghibli.
I don't know about Only Yesterday being a timeless classic. It's pretty divided I think. Just look at Wired and Guardian's rankings that were published a couple of days ago.
I saw this bump, and was wondering when NA was going to get this service unlocked. I've not watched a single Ghibli film, and was looking forward to getting started.
Do we know where the subs are from? Did Netflix retranslate? I've seen a post about mistranslations already so not sure...
HBO Max bought the US rights, so they're not coming to US Netflix for the foreseeable future...
I think those ranking are bunk, Only Yesterday is A-Tier Ghibli imo.
the guardian put porco rosso at the bottom of their list, tales of earthsea in the top 10 and and howl's moving castle at #2, all of which i would say are far more controversial opinions than "only yesterday is awesome".
it's not everyone's cup of tea maybe but i love it and would put it extremely firmly in the "you should definitely watch it" list. my favourite takahata movie for sure.
The Guardian list is all kinds of weird and the Wired one seems to have all the more grounded movies at the bottom (+ Earthsea) and all the more fantasy based movies at the top (+ Fireflies)
I love The Red Turtle, but it is not similar to what is considered the Ghibli library.
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That's not true at all he did Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro way before.
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I'm not sure haven't look at the sub side, but one member her mentioned in a reply that Ghibli themselves own the Disney dubs, so if that's the case I could imagine that Ghibli would have provided their own subs for the Japanese versions rather than Netflix having to make their own subs. This is just speculation on my part and hopefully someone who is more well versed in the subs and if they are correct can come and give a proper answer.
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It's worth a watch if you haven't seen it, it's on Netflix here in NZ, so may be on Netflix in your country 😀
From Ghibli? They're almost assuredly going back into production hibernation once Miyazaki wraps on his latest film and retires yet again.
So which one is the best? I dont have tim to watch all of them on netflix so I want to watch the best one :D