Disney Schedules Ged Senki Release
Disney subsidiary Touchstone Pictures will theatrically release Studio Ghibli’s 2006 feature film Tales of Earthsea (Ged Senki) in America on August 13. Presumably the theatrical release will be the English dub produced in 2006 but not widely released. The Disney produced English dub features Timothy Dalton, Willem Dafoe, Cheech Marin and Mariska Hargitay. The film was delayed from US release because The Sci-Fi Channel owned all American film distribution rights to adaptations of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Earthsea” novel franchise until last year.
Ged Senki, directed by Mayao Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki, has widely received moderate reviews and was famously a cause of friction between the elder and younger Miyazaki. However, the film was Japan’s most successful domestic film in 2006, earning 7.65 billion yen.
Honestly, this film isn’t nearly as bad as so much of the public criticism would suggest. Even the weakest Ghibli films are still in the top teir of quality anime. This is a great looking, beautifully animated film that suffers with a poorly adapted screenplay that’s not especially compelling and inadequately explained.
Source: Cartoon Brew
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Haven’t seen either one, but I hear it’s better than the Syfy movie, at least. Japan’s been suffering too much from “next generation not ready to carry the torch” syndrome, though. Whether it’s Kenta Fukasaku, the current head of Toyota, or Goro, it seems to be an issue not being addressed enough.