I just finished watching The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

It was good but different in many ways. It didn't exactly have a happy ending, so I'm left wondering exactly what the moral of the story was... there are certainly a few possibilities.

I got to say, since I've been watching Steins;Gate in Japanese with subtitles, it made me appreciate how much is lost with dubs. The sync was out on one of the episodes so I had to watch it in English & it just wasn't the same.

I've only watched two Studio Ghibli films in Japanese, since I saw them at the cinema before the DVDs came out. (From Up On Poppy Hill & The Wind Rises)

That basically gives me an excuse to watch them all again in Japanese.

Having said that, some of the dubs were really good to be honest. Christian Bale as Howl was great. He even did the gravely batman voice briefly...