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Original Title
I'm adding one Japanese film on IMDb, and got a question about Original Title.
How can I submit both, the original title and the English title?
And which title, original or English, should be the main title?
For example, "Seven Samurai" (1954).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
On IMDb page, we can see the English title "Seven Samurai" as a main title.
In addition, we also can see "Shichinin no samurai".
"Spirited Away" (2001) as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/?ref_=nv_sr_1
On the other hand, what about "Kimi no na wa." (2016)?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=nv_sr_2
This is definitely the original title, and we don't see the English title anywhere on the page.
However, actually "Your Name" is its English title, and you can see it when you text "Your Name" in the search box.
"Bakemonono ko" (2015) as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4272866/?ref_=nv_sr_1
For those examples, I'm confused.
How can I submit both, the original title and the English title?
And which title, original or English, should be the main title?
For example, "Seven Samurai" (1954).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
On IMDb page, we can see the English title "Seven Samurai" as a main title.
In addition, we also can see "Shichinin no samurai".
"Spirited Away" (2001) as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245429/?ref_=nv_sr_1
On the other hand, what about "Kimi no na wa." (2016)?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5311514/?ref_=nv_sr_2
This is definitely the original title, and we don't see the English title anywhere on the page.
However, actually "Your Name" is its English title, and you can see it when you text "Your Name" in the search box.
"Bakemonono ko" (2015) as well.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4272866/?ref_=nv_sr_1
For those examples, I'm confused.
gromit82
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The official IMDb title of Seven Samurai is Shichinin no samurai (1954).
The official IMDb title of Your Name is Kimi no na wa. (2016).
The official IMDb title of The Boy and the Beast is Bakemono no ko (2015).
However, not all IMDb users will see the official Japanese title as the main title on the film's page. On my site preferences at https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general, I have "Original" selected for Title Display Country, so when I am logged in, I see the Japanese titles as the main title. But when I'm not logged in, IMDb shows me the English title instead, with the Japanese title below it.
As stated at https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/title_formats, IMDb policy is that for the official IMDb title, "We use the original title of a movie/show in its original language as it appears on screen (on the title card) in the opening credits." However, IMDb can only deal with the ISO-Latin-1 character set, as mentioned later on the same page. So any Japanese title that is displayed on screen in kanji, hiragana, and/or katakana needs to be transliterated into characters of the roman alphabet to have the transliterated title entered into IMDb as the official IMDb title. As indicated at https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/guide/asian, IMDb prefers the use of the Revised Hepburn romanization of Japanese.
Titles translated into English, such as "Seven Samurai", "Spirited Away", or "Your Name", should be submitted to the Alternate Titles section, with the Country/Language usually selected as "International: English title" and the Attribute usually selected as (imdb display title).
I hope this helps.
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hiroki_ohsawa
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I appreciate your detailed suggestion.
I still have a question how, where I can put the English title.
I tried to find "International: English title" and "imdb display title", but I couldn't as the attached photo.
Am I watching the correct section?
Sincerely
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gromit82
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In order to add an English-language title for this Japanese movie, you will need to get to the Alternate Titles section. That will not be displayed automatically as part of the process for adding a film to the database; you have to go to near the bottom of the form, below the Movie Connections line, and check the box marked "To add more data for categories that aren't listed above, select this box". Then click "Re-check these updates".
On the following screen, you should find Alternate Titles in the Other Data section of the form. Select "Add 1 item" and then click "Re-check these updates".
On the following screen, you will be able to add the alternate title, select "International: English title" in the Country/Language menu, and "imdb display title" in the Attribute menu.
Good luck!
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