Movie Titles In Japanese

I wanted to do a post on this ages ago, because it’s something that can drive you mad if you’re looking for something at the video store: the names of films are quite often different.

Sometimes quite logical. Sometimes completely mystifying.

There’s a whole round up of some classics at about.com which reminded me that I wanted to do a post on this. Now it’s too late. ho hum.

I will add though, that if you’re looking to see Nicholas Roeg’s classic horror Don’t Look Now (the one with the ‘was it real or wasn’t it’ sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie) it’s called 赤い影　(akai kage), or ‘Red Shadow’ in Japanese.

There’s a title that’s way cooler than the English one.

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006 Japan, Japanese Trivia Trackback URL for this entry