I liked the Japanese title for Coco better than the western title. They called it Remember Me in Japan which made much more sense to me:
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Today in fun foreign movie names: "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood" is "Hollywood in '69" in Japan.
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Yeah, all the marketing materials and trailers I've seen a are just ワンス アポン ア タイム イン ハリウッド... Fake poster? A lot of the text doesn't contrast with the background very well either.
Idioms in your non-native languages can be difficult to understand. It's practically impossible to translate these to begin with, and using them without translation still very few would understand, so titles are changed entirely because many titles are idioms themselves or very similar to what an idiom is. Another great example in this thread is "Fast and Furious", another idiom, something not easy to translate to other languages. All languages have this problem, it's very difficult to translate idioms from one language to another. This is the same case in Europe for many titles.
I am fluent in 4 languages, 2 languages I learned as native, and 1 in school, and 1 on my own, and I still struggle with the latter 2 regarding idioms.
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Same. Just did a quick search of what's playing near my theater and it's just the English name in katakana.
I'm not sure where that picture is from, but the Japanese name is officially "Once upon a time in Hollywood" just in Katakana.
See the official site http://www.onceinhollywood.jp/
See the official site http://www.onceinhollywood.jp/
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Yeah, there are often times the Japanese title is very literal, a lot of Pixar titles, compared to the wordplay of the English title.
But sometimes it is just a transliteration of the original title even though they'd have no idea of the meaning, and other times they just change things willy nilly. I can agree, Wild Speed uses words they're already likely to understand versus Fast and Furious though.
In this case, they just didn't change anything (all indications are that poster isn't official), despite the title being somewhat clunky and long.
I did some googling of the poster in the OP, and it was a fake/fanmade poster made by the movie magazine Eiga Hihou. As pointed out the title is also fake, the actual title is just the English title in katakana. Link to article in Japanese about the poster. It seems to be something they've done with other Tarantino movies too, the article points out they've done posters with literally translated titles like 『ビルを殺れ！』,『鎖無用のジャンゴ』and『裏切りの八悪人』lol
A couple months ago I found a Japanese instagram account that does retro fanmade posters for current US movies, along with making up fake Japanese titles for them like this poster does...I should find the link.
The French titles for the Die Hard Trilogy are actually awesomeThe French title is Crystal Trap:
The sequel is called 58 Minutes to Live:
And Die Hard 3 is A Day in Hell:
Then this thread is a good example of how easy it is for information to spread. Someone claims something without fact checking and it just generally gets accepted as fact.
