Speaking Japaneese from Netflix


This is one of my favorite movies of all time, and I had a VHS copy of it back in the 1980s and 1990s that I watched often on our VCR. But in that copy the actors in it were speaking English and their lines are dubbed in over the original Japanese. I rented this movie out from NetFlix last month, and in that DVD copy they are all speaking Japanese and the English translation is flashed on the bottom of the screen as they speak. And though I had not seen this movie since the early 1990s, I remembered the lines they spoke then, and they were a little different from what was on the screen in this version. And thus I did not like the movie as much (though I still liked it a lot). Then I rented Son of Godzilla out from NetFlix and watched it last night, and it was like this as well (speaking Japanese, words across the screen). I did not seem to matter as much with this movie, probably because I did not remember it as well, and I liked it alot. But that is two Godzilla movies I've gotten from NetFlix recently that are in Japanese with the English translation printed across the screen, and I would rather have them dubbed in English, just like they have always been when I've seen them, on theaters, TV, or on home video.

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If its the same as my dvd's it automatically starts playing in Japanese with the English subtitles, you gotta go to the main menu and go to languages and put the audio on English, and turn off subtitles. For some reason the 50th anniversary editions do that.

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Since they're Japanese films, they usually default to playing in Japanese with subtitles for the English translation. However, English dubs and English translation subtitles usually are pretty different. Sometimes they change dialogue in english dubs so that what they're saying fits the character mouth movements better (or various other reasons)

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And how many movies have you watched in your life that this is one of your favorites?

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