If you were like me, and completely unaware of it, it might upset you just a hair to know that beautifully done Japanese was within your fingertips for potentially some of your favorite movies, or at least movies you’re willing to watch. A handful of BD( Blue ray Disk) movies from America is set up with pesky ‘hidden’ audio tracks in a few more languages.
So First off, here is a list of some well known blue ray movies from America that have hidden Japanese audio(sub) tracks presented on a forum that I’ve pulled here.
- Appleseed Exmachina : Audio
- Batman Begins : Subtitles / Audio
- Batman Gotham Knight : Subtitles / Audio
- Beetlejuice : Subtitles / Audio
- Blade Runner : Subtitles
- Bourne Trilogy, the (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Constantine : Subtitles / Audio (need to put player settings to Japanese)
- Dark Knight, the (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Death Race (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Dragon Ball Z Broly double feature : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z Dead Zone/World’s Strongest : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z History of Trunks/Bardock Father of Goku : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z Tree of Might/Lord Slug : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z Cooler double feature- : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13 / Bojack Unbound : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z: Broly Triple Feature : Audio
- Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn / Wrath of the Dragon : Audio
- Diebuster : Audio
- Dirty Harry : Subtitles / Audio
- Eraser : Subtitles / Audio
- Every Which Way But Loose : Subtitles / Audio
- Final Fantasy VII Advent Children Complete : Audio
- First Knight : Subtitles / Audio
- Freedom : Audio
- Gauntlet, the : Subtitles / Audio
- Gunbuster : Audio
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets : Subtitles / Audio
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire : Subtitles / Audio
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix : Subtitles / Audio
- Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone : Subtitles / Audio
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban : Subtitles / Audio
- Hellboy II (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- How the west was won : Subtitles
- Hulk (2003) : Subtitles / Audio
- Interview with the Vampire : Subtitles / Audio
- Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade : Audio
- Kill Bill Vol 1 : Subtitles
- Kill Bill Vol 2 : Subtitles
- Kingdom of Heaven : Subtitles
- La Haine (EU) : Subtitles
- Letters From Iwo Jima : Audio
- Lost Boys; the : Subtitles
- Matrix Ultimate collection, the : Subtitles / Audio (need to put player settings to Japanese)
- Mummy Trilogy, the (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Natural Born Killers : Subtitles / Audio
- Ocean’s 11 : Subtitles / Audio
- Ocean’s 12 : Subtitles / Audio
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest : Subtitles
- One Piece Movie 8: The Desert Princess and the Pirates – Adventures in Alabasta : Audio
- Outbreak : Subtitles / Audio
- Paprika : Audio
- Perfect Storm : Subtitles / Audio
- Samurai 7 : Audio
- Serenity (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Shinobi Heart Under Blade : Audio
- Signs : Subtitles / Audio
- SOS! Tokyo Metro Explorers The Next : Audio
- Speed Racer (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Sweeney Todd (EU/HK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Tekkon Kinkreet : Audio
- V for vendetta : Subtitles / Audio
- Van Helsing (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Wings Of Honneamise, the : Subtitles / Audio
- Wanted (UK) : Subtitles / Audio
- Yukikaze : Audio
- Zodiac – Director’s Cut (EU/AU) : Subtitles / Audio
You can also, simply search the Blue ray web site and use filters to find dvd’s from your country with Japanese audio and subs.
Out of these, I personally have bought V for Vendetta and Batman Begins, because that is the only ones in the store from the list. They were a lowly $10 a piece. That’s a nice price tag for Japanese language, movie I like, and quality of Blue Ray.
However, now I shall talk about the more saddening parts. When I came home super excited about watching Batman and V, I popped them in my play station 3 without any hesitation.
Where was the Japanese? I got really upset, I couldn’t find them, on either video. So I went online, and most people who could see it had either a Japanese region Blue ray player, or had set their PS3 to Japanese. Well, this is where I was getting sad, simply because I had my PS3 set to Japanese. I decided not to give up, as many people wouldn’t talk about it if it weren’t true, so I delved into my PS3 settings and realized there was a setting for default language of the actual Blue ray disks themselves. After popping that setting in Japanese, my disks then played in Japanese and had both audio and subs.
I wasn’t impressed with the subs for V for Vendetta because they weren’t exact subs. The audio was really good however, and didn’t distract me from the goodness of the movie. I really like the voice actor for V too. I haven’t watched Batman Begins just yet, but I’m looking forward to see who they have voicing Batman.
So if you have a BD player that isn’t from Japan, go ahead and check to see if there is a language, default setting, that can switch it to Japanese, and make sure to set the BD settings in your PS3 to Japanese as well.
In my area, a lot of these bds were between $10-20 a piece. That’s a pretty decent price, if you consider what it would take to get a Japanese BD from Japan sent over! I hope everyone enjoys this knowledge if it is new for you, as I certainty was super happy to find out myself! Interview with the Vampire up next! yay!
yuricfurusho
March 14, 2013 at 8:07 am
thank you!
ultraali453
May 12, 2013 at 9:22 pm
Thanks