King Kong vs. Godzilla Toho Blu-ray

[MechaMinya]

Hi.

I just ordered the official Toho Blu-ray.

Where can I find an accurate translation in English? I would like to follow along while watching.

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide!

[Benjamin Haines]

Here is a Google Drive to a downloadable .ssa text file (80 KB) of a King Kong vs. Godzilla English subtitle script. You can open it with any text-editing program.

This script was made by David Jackson and provided by Jim Ballard on the former Tokyo Monsters website, which is archived . This script was made to sync up with Toho's original Japanese region-2 DVD of KKvsG, so owners of that 2001 release or one of Toho's several later re-releases could use that disc and this script to burn themselves a DVD-R copy of KKvsG with English subtitles for personal use.

I don't know if Toho's BRD release has any additional logo screens at the beginning of the movie that might cause it to not sync up with this subtitle script.

[H-Man]

That subtitle script probably predates the upload at Tokyo Monsters: I'm pretty sure my VHS bootleg I got close to 20 years had those subtitles. Unfortunately they don't really correspond to what's being said. There's a video here that uses an example from early in the movie to prove that:



A German Blu-Ray release had a newly translated German subtitle track that's since been translated to English.

[Benjamin Haines]