Hi everyone!
I´m a big Ghibli fan, and I really want to buy some of the DVDs. The only problem is that I want j-subs (I already own 3-4 Ghibli movies, but only english subs).
I´ve looked at different sites, and the DVDs are really expensive, like 35-45 US$.
Do you guys know where I can find the best price for Ghibli movies with japanese voice/subtitles? Or do I just have to bite the sour apple, and buy them at yesasia.com or something?

Thank you guys!

Zorlee

I'd also be interested to know this. I live in Japan and Ghibli DVDs are always outrageous. I lucked into a collector's edition of Howl's Moving Castle though from a friend leaving Japan. He got the DVD as a gift from a Japanese girl and didn't really care for it. The collectors edition costs around 80 US dollars! The regular DVDs even go for around 50 most times. Its crazy.

You can get some great Disney movies in Japanese for cheap though. For example, Mr. Incredible (The Incredibles) for only 800 yen. But the subtitles aren't exact. Very disappointing

Zorlee Wrote:I´ve looked at different sites, and the DVDs are really expensive, like 35-45 US$.

Regular anime used to(and sometimes still does) cost that much here :(

http://www.opensubtitles.org/en exists pretty much for exactly this purpose. If you rip the DVD yourself with something like handbrake, and use a player that supports external subs like MPlayer or VLC then you can get Japanese subs on movies you already own. It's not without its own headaches, but it is possible. I did it with もののけ姫. Ghibli movies are so popular that you'll be able to get most of them from OpenSubtitles.

I couldn't find Ghibli movies with a quick search but I'll try again later... Probably need to use Japanese script.

Nii87 Wrote:I couldn't find Ghibli movies with a quick search but I'll try again later... Probably need to use Japanese script.

I tried "mononoke", "totoro", "kiki", "howl castle", "laputa" and "spirited away" and got results for all six.