Language: 英語, 日本語
Subtitles: 日本語, 英語

The dvd I was looking at originally, a Star Wars boxset, didn’t have this info, but I’ve found it on everything else. So I’m good. Thanks anyway.

I’m looking to buy some dvds dubbed in Japanese and with Japanese subtitles. Can I just assume that every American movie on amazon.jp has these features? I can’t yet read most of what’s on amazon.jp, even if I click the translate to English button. So I’m worried that I’ll order a movie that has subtitles in Nihongo, but no audio. Am I freakin’ out about nothing, or is there something I should look for indicating Japanese audio?

Thanks for the help y’all.

I am sooo placing an order for Serbia and waiting to see what’ll happen

maybe the mistake is that i’m browsing in english. browsing in chinese led me to The Incredibles (mandarin version), so that’s one video at least. at $20 per movie this is gonna get expensive fast. probably more worth my time to go check out the night-market in chinatown for cheap vcds.

@scout
The problem is each individual store doesn’t seem to have that great stock so even though I may want to buy $100 of books it isn’t necessarily easy for me to buy them all from one single store. I assume the shipping costs are calculated after dividing the order between the individual stores? Or is that not the case?

Also if you have a computer and don’t want to spring for a region-free DVD player, you can use the free program DVD Shrink (google it to find a download link) to make a region free copy of your DVD that will play on any DVD player. That’s what I do with my Japanese DVDs.

Unfortunately, this isn’t how the law works. Either way, the best thing is to ignore it and do what you feel is right.

Are fansubs legal?
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Yes. However, if the series you are watching become licensed in your area, please stop distribution of said series. Here at SARS-Fasubs we provide files that are not currently licensed, these are “by fans for fans” files and remain legal in your area as long as they remain unlicensed in your area.
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And if it is legal to download in Japan… wouldn’t that apply to anywhere else since they are Japanese dramas?

it was actually a guy in a shop who pointed that out to me, most of the time you can get it to be ‘region free’ just by entering a code (sometimes a long code with some weird instructions though (”switch off DVD player, press button X, power on again, switch off, enter this code… and tadaa”)) with the remote control.

@ captal
No, it’s not legal. International copyright law - if it’s copyrighted in one part of the world, it’s copyrighted in most of the world. However, because it’s not licensed, it’s very unlikely that you’ll get in serious trouble.
I do believe it’s legal to download in Japan though, but not upload.

The only “problem” is that they are quite slow, imho. If it was Amazon, my order would have arrived 6 days ago. Yesasia estimates July 2 as the ship out date, plus a couple of weeks to get it here. That makes around 35-40 days in total. And I’m out of manga, NOW. I can f-feel the first signs a mental br-breakdown…

PS. It’s not because of one or two out-of-stock items. All of the things I ordered (manga, books, movies) had an estimated shipping time of 21 days.

If you’re okay using your computer to watch movies, vlc media player will play all regions.

@Rebeca
IMHO, you really will need a region-free (multi-region) DVD player. You can get one new in the $50 range. Unfortunately, you may cause yourself a lot of (unfruitful) work trying to find Japanese materials in region 1 only.

My only gripe with Kinokuniya was the packaging. The books weren’t completely covered in plastic, so I worried they might have been damaged if the package was exposed to moisture. Sasuga on the other hand seems to go to great lengths with packaging to ensure your books arrive in pristine condition.

I live in the states, and I haven’t been able to order anything from them yet (videos) cuz of the whole “region DVD” problem…

can anyone tell me how this works?

Basically what Im looking for is the Japanese version of disney cartoon, but compatible with American DVD players (basically, the videos that are shipped to the Japanese communities in the US)

anyone have any ideas how i can get my hands on these?

jhr: I’m not sure if it has to do with your location (I’m in Sweden myself), but I’ve only had an item take a month to arrive once, and that was because it was a DS game that just sold out in all of Japan, and they had to wait for more stock. If they have the stuff in stock I usually get it in one week or so, if it’s stuff like Japanese manga that they don’t have in stock, it usually takes 5-7 days extra.
The best thing besides the free shipping is that they actually send out the package from inside the EU to me, so I don’t have to pay the shitty custom fees and the steep 25% Swedish sales tax for the stuff.