Scripts

phauna Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Where can we get Japanese movie scripts? I'm sure they exist because I found this site with a lot of English scripts, which may or may not be legit:

http://www.imsdb.com/

Perhaps any Japanese friends of ours would like to avail themselves of these. I just imagine there must be some Japanese scripts out there, although maybe not as nicely compiled as the above. Maybe we need to get our Japanese friends to do some digging also, I'll ask mine this week.

If you know any links to scripts, please link them up here.

Also, here's an older thread with some Anime scripts.

http://forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=1618

phauna Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Okay, my Japanese friend has come up with the goods in limited fashion, she says they are quite hard to find, google-wise.

my neighbour totoro
http://user.chollian.net/~akizuki/siryo%5E/totoro.htm

princess mononoke
http://user.chollian.net/~akizuki/siryo^/mononoke.txt

Matrix Reloaded
http://homepage.mac.com/tomo_sakuray/Ma … pt_JP.html (seems unfinished)

Matrix Revolutions
http://homepage.mac.com/tomo_sakuray/Ma … pt_JP.html

These are books.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI … gholi0c-22
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI … gholi0c-22

I gave her a list of Japanese videos I own and she'll try to find more. I'm especially excited about Totoro, I just borrowed it from the video store again.

wrightak Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2006-04-07 Posts: 873 Website

Dragg collected a load of sound files for Lupin and I helped out by transcribing them. I did it by typing in what I could identify and then googling that. I never found a comprehensive script but I found lots of sites with chunks of transcripts from the movie.

My point is that in order to find these scripts, or just extracts, instead of typing "Totoro script" or the Japanese equivalent into google, you type in what you hear being said in the movie. If you've got Japanese subs then that will be very easy.

The same technique works for song lyrics (in any language).

Thanks for the links!

Last edited by wrightak (2008 August 14, 8:13 pm)

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phauna Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Cool, I'll try that, but my plan is really to get some cluey Japanese people to do it. They're still going to be much better at hunting this stuff down than I am. Also, I need the scripts because I can't hear much in movies yet.

I think goo has a big song lyric database, I think song lyrics are easy to find, but movies are a little tricky.

Terhorst Member

Registered: 2007-05-25 Posts: 65

Spirited Away/千と千尋の神隠し:

HTML: parts 1 2 3 4
TEXT: parts 1 2 3

(source)

sutebun Member

From: Oregon Registered: 2007-06-29 Posts: 172

It's not quite as good as a script (no copy pasting~), but try turning on the subs for the Miyazaki films. They're pretty much exact, at least on the ones I have.

phauna Member

From: Tokyo Registered: 2007-12-25 Posts: 500 Website

Wow, thanks especially for Spirited Away.

Mcjon01 Member

From: 大阪 Registered: 2007-04-09 Posts: 551

Well, I got pretty good results when searching for video game scripts by searching for the title of the game along with "セリフ集" or "台詞集". I haven't tried it much with movies, but it seems promising, even if you still have to do some digging to find anything useful in the results.

Though, with Western movies the results seem to center around places to buy books from some series of officially published bilingual scripts.

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