There are only two clips of the movie online: one individually uploaded to YouTube and one Wait uploaded as part of a voice acting reel (see 1:25 of the second clip below). Given that the dub was most likely produced very quickly and wasn't intended for a domestic release, there isn't a lot of information about it other than the names of the three main actors: Darren Pleavin played Gin, Candice Moore played Miyuki and Russell Wait played Hana. Such was the case with Animax's 2004 dub of Tokyo Godfathers, which was, per the Lost Media Wiki, broadcast on the channel sometime between 2004-06. The dub of Avengers: Future Fight, which recently came to Disney+, is the exception that proves the rule here.
While sometimes this is as simple as licensing an English-language dub from a company like Opex, Viz or Bang Zoom, other times it means commissioning a dub from Bang Zoom or another such company.Īs a result, these dubs only tend to air overseas and only on TV and rarely, if ever, get released Stateside. Sold to KC Media Holdings by Sony this past January, Animax broadcasts 24 hours a day and, thus, constantly requires new English-language content to be produced. If you don't live in any of the territories it operates in (Southeast Asia, South Asia, Macau, Hong Kong, Africa, India and the Middle East), you probably don't know what Animax Asia is. Essentially, it's a satellite network founded in 2004 by Sony to air anime in English, Japanese and (in Taiwan only) Mandarin. WRITE FOR US! Do you have proven online publishing experience? Click HERE and join our team! Tokyo Godfathers' Original Dub And while it proved a little harder than expected (keep reading to find out why), it's still an interesting case study in how far anime dubbing has come. Given that the film was previously dubbed for broadcast by Animax Asia, we thought we'd compare the two. As with its previous re-release of a Kon film - 2001's Millennium Actress - the film has not only been re-released with subtitles but also with a newly commissioned dub from NYAV Post.įollowing the hijinks of three homeless people - the crusty, alcoholic Gin (voiced by Tōru Emori in Japanese and Jon Avner in English), ex-drag queen Hana (Yoshiaki Umegaki/Shakina Nayfack) and teenage runaway Miyuki (Aya Okamoto/Victoria Grace) - as they struggle to return an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve, the film has long been considered a cult alternative holiday staple by anime fans. The late, great Satoshi Kon's 2003 film Tokyo Godfathers is back in North American theatres courtesy of GKIDS. He once caused the death of a young flyer, by leaving. The situation is aggravated when a new flyer, Bat MacPherson, turns up with his wife Judy. He wants to continue his risky lifestyle uninterrupted. But Geoff is scared of being detained by a woman. She decides to leave the boat and stay at the hotel. Bonnie falls in love with Geoff, who reminds her of her father, a trapeze artist who worked without safety net. As the weather is often stormy and foggy, the flights are extremely difficult, and several flyers have already lost their lives.
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He is the owner of a scrubby hotel, but also of the shaky Barranca Airways, lead by the tough flyer Geoff Carter. She meets a gang of American flyers, who works for a warm-hearted Dutchman. When the ship San Luis makes a stop at the port of Barranca, to deliver mailbags and load bananas, cabaret singer Bonnie Lee leaves the boat for some hours to look around.