tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post166690017922630054..comments2024-03-19T02:27:08.584-05:00Comments on Ghibli Blog: Studio Ghibli, Animation and the Movies: Posters - The Flying Ghost Ship (1969)Daniel Thomas MacInneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01406180871529775448noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-48882578640684682902009-04-23T18:58:00.000-05:002009-04-23T18:58:00.000-05:00These are very good insights. I'm pleasantly surp...These are very good insights. I'm pleasantly surprised to see that this movie has its fans, considering its virtual non-existence on the internet. In any case, I'm grateful for the fansub community for making Flying Ghost Ship available.<br /><br />I've been told a couple times now that Scooby Doo actually comes after this movie. How surreal is that?! I find it impossible to believe that these two productions, an ocean apart, both have Great Danes as comedy relief in the haunted house. And, yet, here we are. Stranger things have happened.<br /><br />These are good defenses of the movie. When I speak of "Toei's decline," I'm betraying my bias towards the lavish full-animation productions of the 1950s and 1960s, and that generation of young artists that included Miyazaki and Takahata. Guilty as charged. As in all things, it's a matter of taste. But with the exodus of the studio's top talent to A Pro in the early '70s meant the end of an era, one in which Toei was the cutting edge. That frontier would later be fulfilled by others, especially on television, with Lupin III, Space Battleship Yamoto, and Heidi.<br /><br />Now here's what I'd like to see from the Toei defenders: Make Your Case. Let's see some blogs and websites devoted to these films. Show us the histories and the players. Show us where to see the films and tv series. I've worked long and hard to present my own point-of-view. Now it's your turn.Daniel Thomas MacInneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01406180871529775448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-44048549616787393912009-02-09T01:49:00.000-06:002009-02-09T01:49:00.000-06:00Daniel Thomas calls the dog in The Flying Ghost Sh...Daniel Thomas calls the dog in The Flying Ghost Ship a "cheesy Scooby Doo knockoff". According to the IMDB The Flying Ghost Ship opened on 5 May 1969 and Scooby Doo on 13 September 1969. So it must be the other way around. It's Scooby Doo who is the copy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-67058095183654710252008-12-12T15:37:00.000-06:002008-12-12T15:37:00.000-06:00Geoff: If you want an eyebrow-raiser in terms of ...Geoff: If you want an eyebrow-raiser in terms of borrowed giant robot imagery, check out the wonderful film Le Roi et L'Oiseau by Paul Grimault. It's a 1950s film that heavily influenced Miyazaki and Takahata. IIRC a perfunctory google search will turn up a full copy on Vimeo or a related service. The film is entirely in French, but dialogue is sparse and a fansub script is floating around out there if your google-fu is sufficient.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for the picture of the poster, Daniel. I specifically collect anime movie posters of English-language releases from the 60s and 70s-- a brief snapshot of my collection is here:<BR/>http://www.michaeltoole.com/blog/?p=11<BR/><BR/>I'm still seeking posters of Panda and the Magic Serpent (a fairly easy find, but I'm hoping for the insert poster which has a nicer design), The Littlest Warrior (easy but I want a better copy than the one I've seen floating around), and Adventures of Sindbad (can't find it at all, enormously frustrating, I may settle for the Japanese two-sheet which is titled in English).<BR/><BR/>As for Flying Ghost Ship, I'm quite fond of this picture and don't see it as a signpost pointing towards Toei's decline. If anything, the company's decision to put aside lavish Disney-esque animation in favor of simpler fare is reflected more immediately in the previous year's Puss n' Boots, which is an amazing picture in spite of that (or, one might argue, because of that-- Sindbad looks great, but it's not a great film by any stretch). <BR/><BR/>In fact, I'd hesitate to describe Toei's output in the 1970s as 'decline'-- they did indeed change their approach to animation, but it resulted in beloved classics and game-changers like Mazinger Z, Candy Candy, and Galaxy Express 999. I think it's a shame that their standalone features have fallen by the wayside, but I still enjoy new cartoons from them almost every year.Mike Toolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16968105672660180358noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-80756085403744799222008-12-12T10:18:00.000-06:002008-12-12T10:18:00.000-06:00This is my favorite movie of all time guaranteed w...This is my favorite movie of all time guaranteed with triple your money back. Flying phantom ships captained by skull-faced ghosts that are really high-tech flying battleships battling evil robots controlled by a financial conspiracy ruled by a giant monster at the bottom of the sea served by giant talking crabs and soft drinks that dissolve people? Better than this you don't get. <BR/><BR/>I paid cash money to have my laserdisc translated for a fansub back in the 90s, while at the same time a completely different outfit was fansubbing it themselves. <BR/><BR/>I completely disagree that this film "points towards Toei's decline". What this picture does is smack Toei in the face and say "Quit trying to be the Asian Disney, you idiot." Toei spent the 60s producing fairytale pictures, some of which I agree are really incredible, but what would put Toei on the map as its own thing in the 1970s was action SF anime for the youth market, preferably with popular manga tie-ins from creators with impressive pedigrees (Go Nagai, Shotaro Ishinomori, Leiji Matsumoto). I do not see Toei's GALAXY EXPRESS films as a "decline", and that's just one example.d.merrillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704651182760972937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24969765.post-73649715445769905282008-12-07T19:59:00.000-06:002008-12-07T19:59:00.000-06:00This movie was not what I expected it to be...well...This movie was not what I expected it to be...well the first 1/3 was, but the last 2/3 were not, haha.<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed it, similar to the way you did. This will never come close to making my all time favorites list, but a nice short little flick.<BR/><BR/>On the topic of borrowing from Anime films, I always wondered the same thing about Brad Bird's movie "The Iron Giant". As the robot in that film bears resemblance to the robots from Laputa:CitS.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com