Road Show: Indiana Jones

When a new movie comes to theaters here, they call it "road show" with Japanese pronunciation. This movie is now showing in theaters in Tokyo. We're planning to go see it. We bought the DVD of the first Indiana Jones movie today. Little Brother and Big Sister haven't seen any of them. The copies of the first movie, "Raiders of the Lost Ark", have been rented out at our local video store for a long time.

We bought the movie at a music store and got this free gift. It is a plastic envelop folder for papers. The picture on the front is from the new movie. The scanner cut off "2008".

Here's the back of the DVD we bought. The front of the DVD is in English. Click to enlarge to see the Japanese. The DVDs that are sold in the U.S. do not work on our players here. We can't buy DVDs in the States and then play them here. I'm not sure why.*

DVDs sold here have both English and Japanese; dubbed or with subtitles. By pushing a button, you make your choice from a menu before you start the movie. It's great for a bilingual family or students of English or Japanese! (Little Brother and Big Sister and Papa prefer to see English movies in English.)

*Vicki, posted this in the comments:

The reason is "region encoding" which allows movie studios to control who gets to see their movies, where and when.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_region_codes

You can get "region free" DVD players which will allow you to view your American DVDs in Japan.