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The Tales from Earthsea Blu-ray + DVD combo from GKIDS brings Goro Miyazaki’s 2006 Studio Ghibli fantasy home on 2 discs, with English and Japanese audio, an exclusive booklet, feature-length storyboards and an NTV special. This is a brand-new copy, in stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart and complete your Studio Ghibli Blu-ray shelf.
| Format | Blu-ray |
|---|---|
| Discs | 2 |
| Studio | SHOUT! FACTORY |
| Released | February 6, 2018 |
| Run time | 1 hour and 56 minutes |
| Condition | New |
| Availability | In stock |
The Tales from Earthsea Blu-ray is the GKIDS and Shout! Factory Blu-ray + DVD combo of Studio Ghibli's 2006 fantasy film, directed by Goro Miyazaki. Released on February 6, 2018, it includes both discs, an exclusive booklet and a full slate of bonus features.
You are buying a brand-new copy. The Blu-ray presents the film in 1080p with English and Japanese audio, and the included DVD is handy for a second room or a player without Blu-ray support.
Known in Japan as Gedo Senki, the film was produced by Studio Ghibli, directed by Goro Miyazaki and released in Japan in 2006. In the US, it opened in a limited release on August 13, 2010, four years after its Japanese premiere.
The English dub's voice cast includes Timothy Dalton, Matt Levin, Blaire Restaneo, Mariska Hargitay, Willem Dafoe and Cheech Marin. The film was selected to screen Out of Competition at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was nominated for the Japan Academy Prize for Animation of the Year.
The film earned about 75.5 million US dollars at the worldwide box office. On this disc, viewers can choose the English dub, featuring Timothy Dalton and Willem Dafoe, or switch to the original Japanese audio with English subtitles for a more traditional Ghibli viewing.
This GKIDS combo replaced Disney's earlier Blu-ray from 2015 and adds several extras making their North American debut:
The storyboards let you watch the whole film as Ghibli's artists first drew it, while the soundtrack and Therru's Song pieces explain how the music came together. The exclusive booklet rounds out the package as a printed companion to the film.
Explore more Ghibli films with Spirited Away on Blu-ray + DVD, My Neighbor Totoro and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, or browse our anime section. For production history and reception, read the film's article on Wikipedia.
Tales from Earthsea Blu-ray: Questions Buyers Ask
How many discs are included?
Two: one Blu-ray and one DVD, packaged with an exclusive booklet.
Can I watch it in Japanese with subtitles?
Yes. The Tales from Earthsea Blu-ray includes the original Japanese audio along with English subtitles.
How is this different from the older Disney Blu-ray?
This 2018 GKIDS edition adds extras such as the NTV special and "The Birth Story of Therru's Song", plus a DVD and booklet.
Is this copy new?
Yes. It is a brand-new copy.
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This is the Blu-ray edition, 2 discs.
Amazon Customer –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Just watch it, don’t listen to the critics.
I absolutely loved this film. Sure, the ending was vague, but what Ghibli film with magic and mystery isn’t? Media and critics tore apart this film simply because it was judged on the directing style of Hayao Miyazaki without realizing that the son, Goro is different. Hayao is subtle and refined while Goro is raw and emotional. This is a fantastic standalone film. If you watch movies to have every question and mystery explained, then you are misisng the point of storytelling. I can’t believe I let the critics and media sway my opinion before I even watched it. The voice acting and animation is incredible, the music was captivating. The story is less important than the meaning behind it, and I understand that a book cannot be properly done in two hours. It’s honestly one of my Top movies now next to When Marnie was there and How’ls Moving Castle. Watch the movie as viewer and not an uptight critic. Girl’s direction was fantastic, and I’m honestly saddened by all the harsh words he has received.
Crank –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
A misunderstood gem that differs from the novels.
Yes, what you have heard about this film is probably true in some sense, but it’s also wildly false and illogical in another sense. Within animation, this is a top flight film for me personally. If you asked me if I’d rather torture myself through Ponyo or watch a flawed gem, I’d take the gem any day of the week. That gem is this film.
While Le Guin may not have loved the film, she did say it was a good film, just not the one she expected or wanted. Of course what she wanted was this grand 3 or 4 hour tour de force with Miyazaki at the helm. The problem being he was busy, and the idea that this was even possible was always ridiculous.
You simply cannot condense Earthsea into any meaningful exposition of two hours. It’s not going to happen, and it’s not possible.
The fact that father and son were in a bit of a spat at Ghibli did not help the preconceived notions that were born from Goro directing for the first time while his father did something else.
Going in with a logical frame of mind, in realizing this was going to be vastly different, I find the film to be quite amazing really. It’s a lovely piece of animation, and the acting on the dub is considerable and effective.
The villains are extremely well done. Dafoe has an understated and completely immersive performance as Cob. The set of heroes are all convincing as well, and I found almost no annoyances with the crew itself.
The problematic structure was always going to bite the film, and fans of the books of course were ridiculous in confirming their biases, Ursula included. She very much wanted the master to direct her film. She got the son. She very much wanted it to be exactly like her own world in her head and on page, forgetting that this was a Japanese film made very much so for Japanese people first and foremost. In effect, when you take off the strangling hands of the media and the bias, you are left with a superb film that probably should have added 20m to the beginning to give it a bit more backstory and introduction.
As it is the tale here is told well, but it does not quite seal the deal on the world or the happenings it presented in the first few moments. Things remain open-ended on a variety of the novels’ ideas and structural theories. You won’t be getting those answers. SO RELAX. It’s not the perfect film, but it is a fine film in itself.
Characters have been cut, shortened, changed, et cetera. What you are left with is a fairly simple tale of revenge, love, and life. The animation is breathtaking in places. For what some people have said was a rushed production, you really don’t notice it much. Some of the sequences are absolutely stunning, reflecting a nice variety of lifestyles, emotions, and tones that delicately present to you the aesthetic and creativity on display in the Earthsea universe.
Again, I give this five stars not because it is perfect, but because it was so undervalued and overblown as a bad film, when in reality it’s not even close to a bad film. How is this a bad film when Frozen 2 is a good film? This isn’t right, and it can’t be right ever. The acting in this dub is absolutely on par with Ghibli’s best. Ged/Sparrowhawk and Arren are wonderful leads, and the ladies in Therru and Tenar present themselves with realism and rational behavior. This is all massively balanced by Dafoe as the creepy as hell Cob, and his lead henchman in Cheech Marin’s Hare. The forces of good and evil show themselves and completely do what they are supposed to do, which is create a lively atmosphere with characters you care about. The only problem is they probably needed another 50m to properly expand their stories. And that just was not possible.
So what led to the middling reviews then? I make this sound like a masterpiece. Well, for one it’s the outrageous expectations of a major studio in their prime and one of the most influential fantasy works coming together. If people wanted perfection, they should have put up the cash to support a 4 hour anime. They didn’t. So this is what you get. A folded down and recreated artistic statement on the novels from Japan. It’s beautiful quite honestly, and that is all that matters here when you also combine this with the stellar acting. I don’t need anything else personally.
I tend to agree that Arren probably needed a bit more exposition, but Ghibli chose to start the film as more of a mystery, and they only loosely refer to some of the major incidents and ideas from the books. But it works quite well if you just take a step back to realize this is not a film trying to tell the whole cycle.
The bluray by GKids is of course amazing. I at least hope Le Guin managed to watch this again in high-definition where the animation absolutely shines. The bitrate is high, and the bluray is nearly flawless. Impeccable work from GKids. Not too many extras sadly, but there are a few bits to parse through.
Altogether forget any expectations you have here, and just watch the film as the singular tale it wants to tell you. I can’t imagine anyone being too disappointed.
sdwatt –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Sunflower88 –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Artistically done and unique.
It’s a beautify animated Studio Ghibli cartoon. I like all of the animations produced by them. It is PG-13 as it does have some animated violence, but really its not graphic. I have no problem with my 11 year old watching it. It was long but remained interesting throughout. There are a few moments in which the story takes an inexplicable turn, but they didn’t detract from my enjoyment of the movie. If you like fantasy novels you’ll like it.
riavl –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase