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omiya
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Flights to and from Japan are a great way to see some Japanese movies and other things that you can't get on DVD/blu-ray, like on a recent flight to/from Japan with Cathay Pacific airlines, I could choose The Hunger Games - Mockingjay Part 1 with English subtitles and Japanese audio so I could hear Nana Mizuki voice Katniss Everdeen.
As far as music of anime went, Cathay Pacific also did well having FictionJunction, Asami Imai, Yukari Tamura and probably others. The only time that I flew with JAL so far, they had Nana Mizuki's Rockbound Neighbors album, and K-On! The Movie. |
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samuelp
Industry Insider
Posts: 2231 Location: San Antonio, USA |
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"In-flight" is considered a completely different territory when it comes to video rights sales.
You can sort of think of it as its own country. There's actually more of these sorts of cross border licensing domains, e.g. There's one for on cruises... Hell I bet if they wanted to watch anime on the international space station that'd probably be considered a different license domain, too! In flight licensing is pretty lucrative actually, especially for foreign films. |
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EricJ2
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In fact, wasn't Porco Rosso originally intended to be a short film for JAL? (Generally, since it's a long enough flight across the ocean for two movies, all the intercontinental flights have one set of US movies for those going to the foreign country, and one of the foreign country's movies for those travelers going to the US--I've seen it on French flights as well, although I've never taken one.) |
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consignia
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Planes even have their own DVD region; Region 8.
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Mohawk52
 Posts: 8202 Location: England, UK |
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I've noticed this on the Trans Atlantic flights as well. One of the reasons I book with Delta when I need to fly to the US.
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vonPeterhof
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When I flew to and from Japan this year using Emirates, as a linguistics nerd I was very pleasantly surprised by the ridiculously large media collection - stuff in all the major European languages, lots of Asian languages, including more than ten languages of India, and even one or two movies each in Afrikaans, Zulu and Swahili (but then, I hadn't flown on anything other than low-cost airlines for seven years or so, so maybe that's the norm these days?). Unfortunately there was no anime (obviously not counting Japanese dubs of Disney and Pixar films), but there were a couple of live-action manga adaptations, like Assassination Classroom and Strobe Edge.
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Brett-Butler
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I saw the live-action Assassination Classroom on a Japan Airlines flight when I was going from London to Japan over the summer. It was okay, more or less a live action version of the first anime series condensed down to 90 minutes.
Although some of the characters appear to have been renamed in the subtitles i.e Koro-Sensei has been renamed U.T (short for "Unkillable Teacher", supposedly a play on E.T), and Ritsu has become S.T.A.R. |
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invalidname
 Contributor Posts: 2447 Location: Grand Rapids, MI |
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This is really cool. Last time I flew MSP-SFO was the first time I had one of these Delta planes with a lot of J-Dramas for the in-flight entertainment. I almost went with the live-action Strobe Edge, but ended up watching a dramedy called Flying Colors, which was a lot of fun, and that I'd probably buy on DVD if it were ever legally available in my region.
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John Thacker
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Northwest flew into Tokyo and then elsewhere in East Asia so much after WWII that they branded themselves Northwest Orient Airlines for a long time.
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bacondreamer
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It's not just Delta or Japan airlines. Most if not all NA to Japan routes will have Japanese movies and anime available on the inflight entertainment (with the exception of some older aircraft that does not have in-seat entertainment).
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AJ (LordNikon)
 Posts: 504 Location: Kyoto |
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This seems to be a no brainer for long haul aircraft (Boeing 77E or 77W) that flies east from the states. Of my last several trips from IAD to LAX, HND, NRT or SIN... all the carriers I've flown, both domestic and international flags do this. One would be surprised that half the movies on UA long haul flights to the east are Japanese, and almost half, to a slightly lesser extent of AA. Never flown DL, so I'll defer to Justin's answer.
On all the AA flights to NRT/HND I've flown, my crews have always been American, but on UA, half the crews have been Japanese. Both carrier also always offer a choice of American or Japanese meal service. I would assume if I were on CZ, my crew would be Chinese, or a domestic flag to any destination in China would likely be Chinese. I would assume this logic carries through to the seat back in-flight entertainment (IFE) as well, English or Chinese. I would surmise the same be true if flying SQ. Programming would cater to mostly English or Korean on Korean Air, and so forth for any of the ME3 carriers to the middle east. Between code share and interline agreements between alliances such as Star and OneWorld, and looking at PAX demographics it makes sense to have a 50/50 option. On my last flight from NRT to IAD last week, I was on a newly rehabbed NH Boeing 77W with the new Horizon controllers. The IFE library was absolutely mind-boggingly intensive, and nearly every thing offer was available with soundtracks in English, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. Being ANA, granted half the programs were Japanese, but to still have the option was amazing. Since long haul aircraft are typically swapped out for use another routes outside of mainline service, for a multitude of reasons, it would go to logic that you could encounter a DL Boeing 77W on a JFK to LAS route that still has its IFE programmed for long haul transcon it's primary route. A few months ago, I had to fly JFK to YYZ on AA and half the IFE programs were Indian. I've flown in many long haul A/C for shuttling that had no Japanese programming, but might have French, German or any number of other programs on the seatback IFE display. Since I know Japanese, the Japanese programming is not an issue for me, however sometimes having half my options in French, a language I haven't used in 35 years since high school, does restricts my viewing enjoying a little bit. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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Well, one of the astronauts up in space (forgot whom or for which project) requested Bridge of Spies to see while up there, and his request was honored. The studio gave him a disc to be put on a delivery shuttle and launched up to coincide with the movie's general release. Is sea travel considered its own thing legally compared to air travel? |
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roxybudgy
Posts: 129 Location: Western Australia |
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Haven't come across anime on flights, but on my flight home on Singapore Airlines (Singapore > Perth) they did have a selection of foreign movies, including Japanese ones. They also had a Pokemon game (I think it was Gold), which I played until I fell asleep.
Lately I only fly budget carriers, so no in-flight movies or games for me. I just play games on my tablet or attempt to sleep.
I guess the question I sent in months ago fell under the "can't answer" category? Would've been nice to get a "Sorry, don't know the answer to that one" at least :/ |
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omiya
Posts: 1827 Location: Adelaide, South Australia |
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If travelling to Japan, I want the flights to be part of the holiday also, and most times the Japanese movies available in-flight that I want to watch have been more than enough for the flying time. One live action movie that I enjoyed in-flight that was based on a manga was: Ore wa Mada Honki Dashitenai Dake / I'll give it my all... tomorrow / 俺はまだ本気出してないだけ 通常版 (2013) - a comedy about a divorced man living with his father and daughter who gives up his job and eventually decides to become a mangaka and how that influences the people around him. |
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TarsTarkas
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It probably isn't feasible to do that due to time constraints. If he did it for you, he would have to do it for all those "When is Gosick coming to the U.S. or will the Outlanders get a TV series" type questions. |
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