6th April 2004, 7:57 PM
The reason why Disney is treating Miyazaki's releases with so much respect is because Ghibli knows about Disney's bad reputation when it comes to releasing foreign films and said that the only way they could release the movies on DVD is if they didn't cut a second from the movies and included the original language tracks. Very smart, those Ghibli people are. Both Steven Chow (director, writer, and star of Shaolin Soccer) and Zhang Yimou (director of the fantastic Hero) have sworn off Miramax for good after the way they treated their respective films.