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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2005-11-11 10:28 pm
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Everyone should have my kind of trouble. My kind of trouble is not being able to find who did the Japanese dub voices for Legend of the Sacred Stone which everyone here knows is the Taiwanese kung fu movie done with puppets that looks /exactly/ like a live-action kung fu movie, which is disconcerting. But that's only the first reason for my current dizziness.

The story hurts my head the same way Indian mythology does ('These people don't think like us. No. They don't.') and for that matter the way martial arts-talk does as well ("Kung fu powers: Six suns sky fire, Limitless Dao majesty, Imperceptible Dao penetration, Summer fire, and the Dry cast of the eight trigrams and second hexagram in Yijing.") Also I'm watching it in Japanese because the Chinese dialogue was done by one guy and you can't hear him talk. I *can* hear the Japanese, mostly- well enough to know that the subtitles are wrong 50% of the time, which is another problem.

And I continue to watch it, all brain-hurtey and brain-splodey, because the Japanese VA who does the upright and lacking in Clue hero Su Huan-jen sounds awfully like Koyasu Takehito, last seen heard as the upright and lacking in Clue Keiki.

We have a winner!

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Or so says Doi's database, I think.

Goushoukoujin Miki Shinichirou
Sokanshin Koyasu Takehito
Seiyou Seki Tomokazu
Ruubin Satou Tamao
Hizenrui Haraguchi Akimasa
Narration Utsumi Kenji

Wow, this sounds like an awesome film. Bleeding puppets! *puts on list*

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-11-11 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I *looked* at Doi's database. There was no entry for it. Your google-fu (三指鼠開密: Three Fingers Mouse Reveals Secrets) is mightier than mine. The thing is still WTF on wheels, bleeding puppets and Miki Shinichirou (the world-weary retired hottie) notwithstanding.

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] petronia.livejournal.com 2005-11-12 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
This played at Fantasia a while back but I didn't get to see it. Now I want to see it in the dub for the sheer crack.

三指鼠開密: Three Fingers Mouse Reveals Secrets

*rolls*

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
三指鼠開密: Three Fingers Mouse Reveals Secrets

Ahahahah! I think I must steal this!

Do not have google-fu. Have google toolbar for Firefox though - makes site-specific searches easy for even the terminally lazy such as myself. ^_^;;

After your post I did some more googling and this amusing review popped up (http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/l/legend-ot-sacred-stone.html) . I really sounds like a most spectacular film and I thank you for enriching my audiovisual entertainment once again.

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
my life could end happily right now if only there were a violent kung fu film starring puppets.

Oh yes, I came across that one too. It's something of a classic all on its lonesome. But really, the Japanese soundtrack is pure ear candy, and the BGM ain't bad either. Even the female lead is cool. 'If you break your vow my tears will slay you' she tells someone at one point: and wadda ya know, turns out that isn't a metsphor. Gotta love it

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
...metaphor, even

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm infecting you, the most spectacular film that I am. XD;
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[identity profile] summer-queen.livejournal.com 2005-11-12 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
Well damn, now I want to find a copy of this, but am not sure where to begin (no nifty non-chain video rental places around here -- and Netflix doesn't have it).

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Found a bootleg on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/LEGEND-OF-THE-SACRED-STONE-Puppet-Action-DVD_W0QQitemZ6450087215QQcategoryZ617QQcmdZViewItem), but no idea as to quality. Will copy for you once I get it. I wonder what voice Koyasu uses this time.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
The one that makes me all silly and melty in various unmentionable places. I mean, he sounds mostly like Keiki but he's conveying perfectly adequately to me that the reason Goushoukoujin won't give him the time of day is because oh once upon a time he got drunk and violated Goushoukoujin's maidenhead and now he feels *terrible* about it. Or something like that.

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 12:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Yet another reason to watch 12 Kingdoms, I see. (And I'm sorry I never responded to your reply to my 12K comment. ^_^;;;;; The blood relatives have been notified that its on my X-mas/B-day list now. :D)
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[identity profile] summer-queen.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooooh, or we could have bizarre movie night (I could introduce you to Gozu!). Must admit to being more interested in hearing Miki than Koyasu, though. ^_^

Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] luxetumbra.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 12:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Another vote for sexy Miki. I do think Koyasu is more versatile though (or a least I've heard him in more varying roles). Man of a thousand and one voices.
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Re: We have a winner!

[identity profile] summer-queen.livejournal.com 2005-11-13 01:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, while I still adore him, Koyasu roles fall into one of two sets of sounds for me: over the top comedic (Hanagata, Sakano, Tanaka) or deliberately sexy (Aya, Hotohori, Hotaru). He's immediately apparent as *Koyasu* in any role I hear him in (it was jarring in Samurai Deeper Kyo when they used him in two different roles, because my brain was thinking 'hey, wasn't he already in this?'), which makes seiyuu like Okiayu and Morikawa preferable for me. I *can't* always pinpoint them within a word or two, and I like the surprise.