# Okay, I'll let Disney live a little bit longer.  (Hayao Miyazaki)

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**Created:** [January 28, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-ill-let-disney-live-a-little-bit-longer-hayao-miyazaki/151430 "2003-01-28T06:28:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-ill-let-disney-live-a-little-bit-longer-hayao-miyazaki/151430/1 "2003-01-28T06:28:17Z")

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Seen on [www.dvdtalk.com](http://www.dvdtalk.com), this news:

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> Disney has announced that it will be releasing 3 highly anticipated Hayao Miyazaki films on to DVD on April 15th including: Spirited Away, Kiki’s Delivery Service, and Castle in the Sky. All 3 DVDs will be released as 2 disc special editions, presented in widescreen (enhanced for 16x9 TVS) and include both the original Japanese Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track (woo hoo!) as well as the English Dolby Digital 5.1 Dub. Spirited Away will feature: an Introduction by John Lasseter, Behind The Microphone - voice talent featurette, The Art of Spirited Away, The Making of ‘Spirited Away’, Select Storyboard To Scene Comparison, Original Japanese trailers, and more!

About time, dagnabbit.

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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-ill-let-disney-live-a-little-bit-longer-hayao-miyazaki/151430/2 "2003-01-28T10:17:21Z")

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See if you can intimidate them into releasing _Nausicaa_ and _Pom Poko_. If they had released _Laputa_ earlier, I’d have been all over myself with excitement, but now I’m just thinking it’s about damn time. Oh yeah, and _Porco Rosso_ too.

And while you’re at it, get them to announce the _Lilo and Stitch_ special edition so I don’t have to get tempted to buy the “cheap” version every time I see it.

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**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/okay-ill-let-disney-live-a-little-bit-longer-hayao-miyazaki/151430/3 "2003-01-28T13:17:44Z")

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I’m rooting for Porco, personally.

Of course, Spirited Away, Kiki’s and Laputa will be nice…

From what I understand, the reason for the wait isn’t fully Disney’s fault–Ghibli wanted to give the R2 releases time to sell before the R1’s came out (R2 DVD’s are **expensive** in Japan).