Miyazaki's Spirited Away, First Released 18 Years Ago, Made Twice the Box Office of Toy Story 4 in China This Weekend By Jim Vorel J| 9:53am.
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“It’s in their hands now.”Īccording to THR, the Chinese release of the film would involve “leading local actors” providing a new dub for the characters’ voices. “We’ve already sold the rights to My Neighbor Totoro to our Chinese partner SCLA, but there are various processes they have to go through to release it in China,” said a Studio Ghibli representative to The Hollywood Reporter. Now, however, in honor of the 30th anniversary of My Neighbor Totoro, a Hayao Miyazaki film will finally be released all throughout China. Thanks to a combination of strained relations between the two superpowers, not to mention the Chinese government’s strict rules about which kinds of films can be shown in the nation’s multiplexes, most Chinese audiences have never seen the likes of Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle or Princess Mononoke. It seems almost inconceivable to say, but in all the decades that Japan’s Studio Ghibli has been entrancing film lovers with its beautiful animation, not a single one of those films has ever received a wide release in neighboring China.