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I'm looking to buy movies on dvd that have english and japanese together, with one being spoken with the other in subtitles. For example, ranked in order of what I prefer to find:

1. Movies originally made in Japan with the original japanese audio, with english subtitles.

2. Movies originally made in Japan, overdubbed with english audio, with japanese subtitles.

3. American movies overdubbed with japanese audio, with english subtitles.

4. American movies with original english audio and japanese subtitles.

I'm an american living in the U.S., I just recently started dating a lady who is native japanese currently living in U.S. She's doing great learning english, but still kind of new to it and has trouble following english dialogue without having to pause frequently to ask what was just said.

I don't know japanese at all. As long as we are dating I'm sure I'll gradually pick up as much as I can. In the mean time, it would be nice if we could find movies we could both enjoy with the least effort. We're just looking to have a shared experience.

The dvds would need to be NTSC format.

We stumbled upon the movie Ponyo recently. It was rented from Netflix and was capable of being played back in the following modes:

Japanese audio, english subtitles
English audio, japanese subtitles
And of course with either language audio and no subtitles

It's pretty good for a kid's movie, it was kinda fun to watch. But mostly it was refreshing, especially for her, to enjoy a movie with a non-japanese-speaker, where she was the one who could enjoy without having to read the subtitles.

We'll buy from US or Japan. I'm not too optimistic about this, but it's worth a shot.