Japanese subtitles for Japanese films

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#1

Non-native English speaker here, so tread carefully :slight_smile:
Hi, I’m new to this forum. I’m looking for a site for Japanese subtitles of live action movies.
I’m looking for the subtitles for ‘still walking’ (aruitemo aruitemo) by kore-eda. I’ve searched everywhere including assrt.net (shooter.cn resurrection) and chi_jap releases (dual subtitles), but couldn’t find one. Does anyone know of a site where I can find them ? Or where should I ask for them (which forum) .

I’m a fan of Kore-eda and have been able to find Japanese subtitles for all of his popular works, including shoplifters (2018), but I’m having a hard luck with this.

In the previous koohii forum there was a thread about Japanese subtitles : https://forum.koohii.com/thread-3730.html
and the subtitles for this particular film was there (‘even if you walk and walk’ another name of the film). If anyone has made an archive of it, I would be very grateful for that.
Thanks.

And a proposal to everyone : Why not make a Japanese subtitle repository, as they are extremely hard to find; I’ve got quite a few subtitles from here and there and I wanna share them with everyone.

EDIT: Here are the all subtitles I’ve accumulated till now : https://mega.nz/#F!PWximSqR!ZXw92BLbZPgQmZ0WLgof1A

There are total 26 subs (including still walking). I’m very very busy with my uni exams right now, so I couldn’t make a list. May I requerst @xiewu to upload all the subs somewhere; it would be a great resource for learners as these are very hard to find. I would appreciate soft subs for ‘umimachi diaries’ and ‘soshite chichi ni naru/like father like son’; I do have the subs but they are hard subs; soft subs make life much easier :smile:

@metalosaurio the okuribito subs are there in the mega folder, you can take a look !

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#2

I used to go a lot to asian dvd club to find good movies with Japanese subtitles. They had quite a bit of movies with Japanese subtitles because the uploads were mostly full dvd. Unfortunately the website is currently down, but it seems to be temporarily. I did download 歩いても歩いても from them and ripped the Japanese and English subtitles (.idx). Here’s a link, hope it works: https://anonfile.com/05d31cgenf/_2008_zip

#3

If anyone has Japanese subs for Honnouji Hotel, Umimachi Diary and Let’s Go Jets, I’d love to have them.

#4

I don’t have the soft subs for ‘umimachi diary’; but I did find a Chinese and Japanese dual sub release. Google for ’ our little sister chi_jap 百度网盘’ (百度网盘= pan baidu)

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#5

You are live saver ! Can I ask you other subtitles when I need ?! Pm me your email.

#6

This is the name of the release : 海街日记.Umimachi.Diary.Chi_Jap.BDrip.720p-ZhuixinFan

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#7

It’s better if you pm me here. I may only have subtitles from these two lists:
https://pastebin.com/fT9Ac1Mp

[Album] Imgur

If you need anything from there tell me and I’ll see if I have them.

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#8

Japanese and English for Umimachi Diary: https://anonfile.com/a0X488gbn6/_diary_2015_zip

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#9

Could I bother you with the おくりびと subs? :smiley:

Also, while not the most comprehensive resource, there’s this website.

https://project-modelino.com/movies.php?site_language=english&learn_language=japanese

I’m currently setting up a proyect to watch most of Kurosawa’s films, checked this website, and to my luck there were about 25 of his movies there!! :star_struck::star_struck:…

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#11

I just stumbled upon this movie in avistaz, here are the subs
https://anonfile.com/m1Lcs6kfne/Honnoji.Hotel.2017.x264_zip

I didn’t check if I ripped the correct file but here it is https://anonfile.com/4e94r6kfnc/okuribito_zip

I just did a search in avistaz filtering by Japanese audio and Japanese subtitles and it’s giving 1074 results (many are duplicates)

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#12

You’re able to grab the subtiltes from viki, just google for viki subtile download there are a few sites that will do this for you. You can also dowload the video on the same sites.

#13

If you don’t mind me asking, do you have anything on 復讐するは我にあり and 万引き家族? The underwhelming quantity of movie subtitles around is a discouragement to my huge interest in the Japanese cinema. I wish there were easier ways to find subs, for the classics, at least.

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#14

Couldn’t find the former one but there is a 50 gb+ torrent for the later one on asiancinema which do have internal Japanese subtitles but I can’t download that large of a file.

#15

Avistaz has a number of torrents with native language subtitles but often those have large file sizes, which are difficult for me to download at the moment. Especially for something that I will just end up extracting the subtitles from then replacing with a smaller size file.

I had some success downloading subtitles from Netflix JP with Chrome extensions (Tampermonkey > Netflix - subtitle downloader, and Subadub). But since I’m not in Japan I needed to use a VPN to access it, and since I’m cheap I was using the free SoftEther VPNs. But it started getting picked up by my anti-virus software so I ended up deleting it. It’d rarely connect well enough to actually watch something, but I could get some subtitles for things I’d seen more like Suicide Club.

#16

I went and signed up for ExpressVPN to try it out. It doesn’t seem to work for Korean Netflix (I started dabbling with Korean a few months ago), but it works well for the Japanese site.

I have mainly been looking at what’s available, although I wish the site would just show a list of everything in a category. Instead I keep seeing stuff that wasn’t there before.

Anyway, I have been download subtitles for stuff I could find with closed captions in Japanese. I focused mainly on Japanese films (largely live action but also some animated ones, as well as a few anime OVAs). Since Kitsunekko probably has all the anime ones I wanted to mainly look for live action. Currently there’s 297 subtitles which I’ve uploaded here:

https://mega.nz/folder/bwgQEYgQ#2phaWcEktj7J6Oai10Grqg

Netflix used to have 帝都物語, but it’s not there now. I would have liked the subtitles for that if they were there.

#17

Thanks that’s huge !

#18

Does anybody has Japanese subtitles for 万引き家族 :’( I’ve been looking for it on Baidu but it doesn’t look like there is a Chi_Jap version which I can find. Either hard-coded or separated subtitle file would be great.

Much thanks!!

#19

Someone posted ja-lang subs for ~1000 items in this Github repository.

Doesn’t have any specific titles previously requested in this thread, though.

#20

Hey, that’s great, exactly what I am looking for I guess. :slight_smile: there a way for you to copy paste a translated version (english or romanji) of these titles or a list of the Japanese movies available on Netflix? Trying to find, if I can find one these movies without netflix, in order to practice. But, I am still not good at reading kanji…

I guess my request asks for too much time…

#21

@Caroline This Netflix search site might help:

The link is set to show a list of Netflix movies with original Japanese audio. There are other similar sites around if you search for them. Don’t know how reliable they are, since I don’t have Netflix, but they seem pretty comprehensive at first glance. You can tinker with the results and get really granular, but I don’t know what kinds of movies you like so I left it as is. You can click the “more details” button to change the results criteria.