El Cosmico here, enjoying my PRINCESS MONONOKE DVD, in Japanese. TATARIGAMI!
Many upset fans, including myself, aligned themselves in anger against the forces which tried to put this disc out without a Japanese language track. Just as our anger was warranted then, at this time, what is warranted is a massive amount of purchasing.
It's a matter of responsibility, consistency, and just plain honorable behaviour. In a campaign led by Nausicaa.net, and aided in large part by AICN readers, Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax or whatever you want to call them, heeded the fanatical rantings of justified anime afficionados, and agreed to delay this disc until the Japanese language track could be included. At this point, it would be shameful for us not to buy this disc in extremely large numbers. They have delivered on their promise, we should deliver on ours.
The film is beautiful. The color saturation on this disc is wonderful, and the audio is exceptional as well, a satisfying 5.1 track for the surround-enabled. The packaging appears unaltered from its original form, inspiring not the smallest bit of fear in me as I first saw it, but sure enough, this disc includes the original, wonderful work of the original Japanese voice actors. Of course, it's still a little shameful to put the names of the English voice actors on the cover, as if they deserve credit for the prominence of this work somehow. Really, as good as the English dub on this film was, and it was one of the best, you should only use that track for your small children, those too young to read quickly. To watch the film otherwise is a shame. One would have also hoped that the words "From The Great Hayao Miyazaki, Master of Animation", or some such thing, but, such is life in the US. We are always reluctant to admit we are not the center of the universe.