Comments on: Final Fantasy film that almost ruined Square Enix financially to be re-screened as “a turning point in Japanese CG animation” at film festival  https://automaton-media.com/en/news/final-fantasy-film-that-almost-ruined-square-enix-financially-to-be-re-screened-as-a-turning-point-in-japanese-cg-animation-at-film-festival/ AUTOMATON is a website that covers the Japanese gaming world. We bring you the news on video games from Osaka and Tokyo. Fri, 21 Feb 2025 01:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: John https://automaton-media.com/en/news/final-fantasy-film-that-almost-ruined-square-enix-financially-to-be-re-screened-as-a-turning-point-in-japanese-cg-animation-at-film-festival/#comment-4845 Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:16:48 +0000 https://automaton-media.com/en/?p=44561#comment-4845 I’ve been really loving this site lately, but I believe you have a slight error here: “In the US, it was badly affected by the lack of a dubbed version.” On the contrary, the American theatrical release of The Spirits Within was stacked with a star-studded Hollywood cast! It had the likes of Alec Baldwin and Donald Sutherland, and Ming-Na Wen was the lead! If anything, it appears (glancing at Wikipedia) that it was *Japan* that received no Japanese dub; it looks like the film was only recorded in English.

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