With Disney's commitment to maintaining the "Shall We Dance?" produced by DAIEI Co., Ltd. New animation feature to be released in the summer of 1997. "MONONOKE-HIME" (Princess Mononoke), directed by Hayao Miyazaki, a Will distribute worldwide the motion pictures and video games of the They have also agreed to expand theirĬooperation in the development of multimedia in the future.Īs the first step in this direction, The Walt Disney Studios With The Walt Disney Studios for the international distribution of its and DAIEI Co., Ltd., will form an alliance Media, the Tokuma Group, consisting of Tokuma Shoten Publishing Co., On the alliance of Disney and Tokuma Group Ghibli's now-defunct English language web page (It has been edited hereĭue to grammar and spelling considerations): Of the original announcement from Studio Ghibli that used to reside on Theatrical, television broadcast and home video rights to those films. Subsidiary Touchstone, starring Richard Gere.)ĭuties, Disney would provide 10% financial support to the production ofĪll subsequent Studio Ghibli films in exchange for the global (The latter of the three was eventually remade for the US by Disney (now known as Kadokawa Herald Pictures): Opium Wars, Gamera 2: Attack of Legion and Shall We Dance? Three films produced by another then-Tokuma subsidiary, Daiei Co. "If You Listen Closely").ĭeal said that in addition to the eight Ghibli titles listed above,ĭisney would also assume the duties of global distributor of at least "Heisei-Era Raccoon Dog War Pom Poko"), and Whisper "The Crimson Pig"), Pom Poko ("Heisei Tanuki Gassen "Memories Likeįalling Rain Drops "), Porco Rosso ("Kurenai no Buta," Only Yesterday ("Omohide Poro Poro," lit. My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Then in existence: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky ("Tenkū no shiro: Rapyuta"), Under the deal, Disney would assume the duties of NorthĪmerican distributor of eight of the nine Studio Ghibli films that were The Walt Disney Company would announce an historic agreement with the This English dub would be released on videoĬassette (and later DVD) by 20 th Century Fox. Neighbor Totoro ("Tonari no Totoro") that stuck "Toxic Avenger" series-did an English-dubbed version of 1988's My Year, Troma Pictures-famous for horror and B-movie schlock like the "unscrupulous" American production companies began to lighten. Resolved to never again allow foreign companies access to his body of This some-would-say-"bastardized" version of Nausicaa Tani no Naushika") was released in the United States by B-movie producer Mid-1980s, when a horribly-edited and dubbed version of Hayao Miyazaki'sġ984 classic Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind ("Kaze no Then-parent company, Tokuma Shoten Communications, goes back to the But the history of thisĭeal is largely forgotten by all but the most hardcore animeįanatic. Majority of those films to the world at large. Over the following ten years, the alliance ofĭisney and Ghibli would co-produce seven more films and release the Introduce many a fan of Disney (such as your humble author) to the works Originally released in Japan some nine years earlier, this film would Or "Majo no takkyubin" (literally translating to Witch's Delivery Was made by a Japanese studio with an Italian name: Studio Ghibli. Video released an animated film that was not made by Disney. On September 1 st, 1998, Walt Disney Home Opinions of The Walt Disney Company, Studio Ghibli Co. The views and opinions expressed in this articleĪre those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views and Full of shots bathed in a palette of pleasingly soft pastel colors and rich in the unexpected visual details typical of Studio Ghibli’s most revered works, Ocean Waves is an accomplished teenage drama and a true discovery.An Editorial by William C. Ocean Waves was the first Studio Ghibli film directed by someone other than studio founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, as director Tomomi Mochizuki led a talented staff of younger employees in an adaptation of Saeko Himuro’s best-selling novel. When Taku joins Rikako on a trip to Tokyo, the school erupts with rumors, and the three friends are forced to come to terms with their changing relationships. But they soon find their friendship tested by the arrival of Rikako, a beautiful new transfer student from Tokyo whose attitude vacillates wildly from flirty and flippant to melancholic. Taku and his best friend Yutaka are headed back to school for what looks like another uneventful year. Rarely seen outside of Japan, Ocean Waves is a subtle, poignant and wonderfully detailed story of adolescence and teenage isolation.
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