did the little brother have a japanese female voice?
When we watched it last night I thought it was cool that the little girl was so tom-boyish but then i found out it was actually a boy. Great movie though!
Not sure about this particular film, but very often kids' (m/f) voice-overs are done by women. Besides when the film is meant to be all tearjerky, in that case kidsploitation is the rule.
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Oh, look! My glasses.
Excellent, thank you summer boredom. My nephews and I kept thinking it was a girl. I think this is the only real mistake in an otherwise pretty great film.
shareYeah this really bugged me throughout the entire film, i thought the same. Just make it a girl in that case, nothing really would have changed in the film, he looked like a girl most of the time anyway.
shareWhy did they do that? It was really distracting, I spent most of the film convinced he was secretly a girl (but nobody knew, like in Pitch Black) until the scene were they were all naked and washing each other (err...). Maybe they were making a point about yin/yang male/female balance but if they were it was a very weak point. The voice actor was fine but why use what is clearly a woman to voice a male role?? Something like The Simpsons is fine, nobody would think Bart has a woman's voice. Here they either chose poorly or were making a point that is never properly delivered.
(Aside from this, I adored the film however)
Yu Aoi is a fine live action actress too, by the way.
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It sounded like!
George Lucas talking about: 'Hey, give it to me, I'll fix it. I'll make 20 more of them'