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"Studio Ghibli box-sets"

I know there are a fair few Anime fans here, so who here has one of the Studio Ghibli sets that are floating around these days?

The sets usually contain all of Hayao Miyazaki films and shorts on around 6 dvds (or four for the subtitled only set), which are:

Spirited Away
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Only Yesterday
Whisper of the Heart
Princess Mononoke
My Neighbor Totoro
Pom Poko
Porco Rosso
Laputa Castle in the Sky
Grave of the Fireflies
Kiki's Delivery Service
Ocean Waves

Every single one of the ones I've seen so far are beyond any other anime out there. I'm tempted to get the set with both English and Japanese language options, but don't know who to get them from or how much I should expect to pay, so if anyone can recommend a place....

In the meantime, if anyone else hasn't seen Spirited Away yet, then get yourselves down to the shops and buy or rent it now!

I hope you enjoyed it pb, it really is a great film and the English dub is perfect rather a shame that Disney want to re-dub it and no doubt involve big stars even if their voices don't even suit the character compared to the first English dub (example: Pazu from Laputa).

I would like to see The Cat Returns and Whisper of the Heart (I had to print out a translation) one of my favourites. I'm pretty sure that Howl's Moving Castle will get a cinema release in the UK. I'm keen to hear the re-dub of Porco Rosso one of my favourite Ghibli films. I really should get round to getting the French version with Jean Reno as the Crimson Pig.

It's a shame that his career is already coming to an end when most people are still discovering his wonderful films. Well I guess he's not retiring, I'm sure he'll be involve in many more projects to come, just not get involved so much as he has on previous films. He really does work very hard. I hope Studio Ghibli can continue to create such inspiring and beautiful films in 2D animation. Dreamworks and Disney, I'm not suprised they gave up 2D animation thinking it's now dead compared to 3D computer animation, how foolish they'll learn the hard way.

Just ordered My Neighbour Totoro, the US edition, for £5 inc p&p. If it only has the US soundtrack and not the original Japanese language I'll have to buy it again when it comes out here, but for £5, I can't complain!

Bejam wrote:

Ghibli advice stuff...

Thanks for that info.

So far I've bought Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro and Castle in the Sky and assorted Joe Hisaishi soundtracks thereof. I've enjoyed all these Ghibli offerings immensely.. even managed to see Spirited Away in the cinema - the usual confused parents with children expecting the latest Disney tack, but they left after about half an hour. :)

Haven't seen The Cat Returns.. is this coming out on DVD sometime soon? Miyazaki's latest.. Howl's Moving Castle looks just as stunning as the others. Pity it won't be out here until 2005..

Kiki's delivery service, and Castle in the sky are £10.99 in HMV at the mo, and Princess Mononoke is £8.99. Pretty good prices really.

hm. Need all the films. Saving up isn't an option at the moment, as we're saving for baby now. I'll try to find some way of getting them all though.

awsome...
Porko Rosso was glorious, so was My Neighbour Totoro, i'm definately getting those 2 at least!

Buena Vista intend to release the following sometime in the UK
Porco Rosso
Whisper of the Heart
Only Yesterday
Pom Poko


[URL]http://www.digital.anime.org.uk/news/20030226.html[/URL]


joy, oh joy.

I'm betting Howl's moving castle will make it to the UK at some point. especially after spirited away won an oscar.

:D

(I'm all excited now)

btw. I really recommend all of DWJ books. I've got every one released so far, and they are all excellent.

A good place to start is her aldult books, especially deep secret.

I bought the book for my younger sister (a junior Ghibli lover) a few weeks ago. We've made it past the first few chapters but haven't read it much recently. We'll have to crack on with it.
From what we did read, it felt very Ghibli-esque, and I could instantly get a good picture in my mind of what the could be like when turned into an animated feature.

There is a very short teaser trailer for it:
[URL]http://www.movie-page.com/trailers/howlsmovingcastle_preview.avi[/URL]

Bejam wrote:

>
> The next major theatrical movie from Ghibli is Howl's Moving Castle,
> which should be released in Japan during the summer I think and is
> directed by Miyazaki.

Oh my God. That story is by my favorite auther Dianna Wynne Jones. I love that book, and it's sequal, and although I have known for ages it was getting made into a film in japan, I had no idea it was going to be by Studio Ghibli!

*jumps for joy*.

It should be fantastic. I hope with all the hope I have, that it gets a UK release.

*crosses fingers*

please please please.....