Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site kontron.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!pertec!kontron!steve From: steve@kontron.UUCP (Steve McIntosh) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Japanimation Message-ID: <369@kontron.UUCP> Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 12:50:17 EDT Article-I.D.: kontron.369 Posted: Mon Jul 15 12:50:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:53:24 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Kontron Electronics, Irvine, CA Lines: 13 Nausicaa in the Valley of the Winds is an animated feature length movie that was Very Popular in Japan. A company in America got the rights to it, and hired another company to "Americanize" it. When they showed it to distributers (cobbled up and edited to death) they were laughed out of the theatre. Being unable to understand how something that popular in Japan could be such a flop in America, they hired a different company to merely "translate" it instead of "Americanize" it. This second version is being test-marketed in Florida, and people who have seen it and the Japanese version say it is quite faithful to the original, and Very Good.