i wish these titles had an english track...

Pokemon: The First Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back (1998) [ZMLZ-102]
Bug's Life, A (1998) [PILA-3034]

you can add others.

I can't think of any that I wish had English tracks, but there's quite a few I wish had English subtitles like most of the Godzilla and Ghibli films.

Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind HK - bought that thinking it was a release of the New World Pictures butchering of this Hayao Miyazaki classic (to have just for the helluvit) as it has the NW title on the cover "Warriors of the Wind," but it has no English soundtrack. Says it has English subtitles on the cover, but it has none of those either.

Tenchi Muyo! In Love 2 and Tenchi Muyo! Manatsu no Eve - one the Japanese box sets for the for the first movie featured the English dubbed soundtrack; the other box set at least had English closed captions. but the later movies never got an English soundtrack or even English captions--despite both movies being released in the US English dubbed and subtitled. Manatsu no Eve even got a bilingual US LD release--but it's only a single disc with no extras.

The Green Slime (Gamma sango uchu daisakusen) - no English soundtrack option even though it was shot in English. Only the Japanese dub is on the disc. Sucks too as it is such an awesome piece of American/Japanese/Italian collaborative cheese (here's the trailer if you want to see how cheesy.) It is available on DVD, but only "on demand DVD."

i too bought this as it said english on the back, boy was i Pi ed
spend good money on it too.

i wish terminator 2 had a release in open matte.

maybe theres one out there that does have english subs. The ones you guys bought could have all been mistakes!

For what its worth:

I have the DVD's of Nausicaa, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service and Howl's Moving Castle and they are all dubbed in english.

I am currently looking for the LD formats for the 4.

i think it was a mistake from the chinese sleeves, i don't think there are any english of that one.

usually all the chinese discs have english and chinese subtitles due to so many dialects, so they have to
use subtitles, and some can read english better than some chinese, or that's what i was told by some chinese people that i knew.

i also had a godzilla, i was hopeing that the LD would have english but it didn't it wasn't sold as having english
i just took the risk

Could it be possible there are English subs in closed caption "CaptionVision" form? I'm always surprised at the number of Japanese LaserDisc releases that have English closed captions - even on discs that don't have the CC CaptionVision logo.

You won't find Spirited Away (2001) and Howl (2004) on LD.

an open matte version of t2 would not be too bad, there's one for total recall

I finally bought MEMORIES...it's that expensive boxset...absolutely gorgeous packaging by the way!! Add the shipping from japan and it's a pretty penny.....

No english track...

...but wait...its LD-G !!!!!!

Now i just need to get my LDG player fixed

It also has Closed Captions, if you can decode those (most TVs with a Teletext decoder have the capability, but there may not be a way to switch it on).

I'd like to see the amazing film Europa Europa remastered with dubbing by the original actors, much like Das Boot had done. I love Europa Europa in its subtitled form but would love to have a well done English dubbed option.

And does the film exist on DVD or BD? All I've ever found was the passible Technidisc pressing from Image.

europa europa is available on dvd in OAR opposed to p&s on image LD.

Now that I think of it...a dubbed Nausicaa would be interesting. While the only English version that existed at the time, the much maligned Warriors of the Wind, was heavily edited, the actual quality of the dub, the timing, the acting, was actually very good. I have no idea if when you go to murder a classic like that you dub the thing and then cut it down, of they dubbed it after it was cut down 18 minutes. If the former is true, maybe the entire thing exists somewhere, which would be fun to see.

In general, dubs are basically for idiots and children, but Warriors of the Wind was the first thing most American Ghibli fans saw so there is huge nostalgic value. I first saw it on HBO, probably in 1985 or 1986. I eventually found the VHS but gave it away to a friend when I got the LD in 1991-1992.

I'm pretty sure the dub script was written, & animation cut down to fit the script. So, any "Warriors of the Wind" English voice track (or, God forbid, derived subtitles) would be substantially shorter than the actual film, with embarrasing gaps — not to mention the bastardized storyline.