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The text in that reads Ro-suke (nickname for Russians used in the war): "I'm dyiiiiing" Japanese soldier: "I will finish you off!" Ro-suke (in the background): "Retreat!" Such scathing political commentary.

So I'm looking through Unext for movies to watch. Names of movies being changed to fit their target region better isn't anything special, but Japan still manages to make me go "oh, wow" sometimes. Edit: Made this. Edit: Here's another one. Tatari means "curse", and the subtitle "noroi no yakata" means "the cursed house". So "CURSE: THE CURSED HOUSE". Also "tatari" is the sort of curse less associated with western stuff and more associated with the Japanese countryside where old people warn of ancient curses (an old lady around 90 yelling "TATARI JAAAAA" at people is practically a trope) so it's a horrible mismatch with the film for anyone fluent in Japanese.

Welcome to my new blog. About me and this blog I'm a nerd interested in nerdy stuff. I've loved Japanese games and stuff (especially the kind that involve robots, girls and/or robot girls) pretty much all my life, and moved to Tokyo in early 2011 (and am totally loving it here). I'm usually far more active on my main blog, wotn where I generally just post about recent purchases (video games, comic books, toys, all that sort of stuff), or on Twitter (@Weisskaiser) though I mainly tweet in Japanese. Being fluent in both English and Japanese lets me see lots of bad/stupid/funny/ridiculous translation errors of all sorts, as well as really weird localisation choices. I sometimes tweet about that stuff, or post about it on forums or whatever, but figured I might as well dump it all on a blog, and here we are. It's also somewhat of a hobby for me to bitch about bad translations and other similar travesties that result from stupid people who don't und...