Were any of the Jidaigeki films & TV shows made by Toho were dubbed into English?

[Kurosawa & Kaiju]

I'm interested to know what country were they were dubbed in,what home media releases did the dub appear on (if any),did they rename the film,did they cut any footage, & did they add any footage. I'm wanting to know as i collect Jidaigeki & Kaiju movies while also collecting live action films & TV shows that get dubbed into English as it makes me laugh whenever I see improper lip flaps in movies & TV. Yes I do also watch subbed versions of films & TV shows that are in the genre of Jidaigeki & Kaiju. Thanks in advance for the helping me find Dubbed Jidaigeki.

[LegendZilla]

Probably because the films themselves are simply respected too much.

[MaxRebo320]

Toho-commissioned dubs for a fair number of Jidaigeki back in the 1960s, with plenty being listed in their sales catalogs. Member Terasawa (Who doesn't seem to have been around lately; I hope he's doing alright) has compiled a WIP list of Toho titles with export dubs. As you can see, plenty of Jidaigeki are amongst those. That said, very few seem to have ever surfaced.

https://h-man.neocities.org/export_list.html

Musashi Miyamoto, the first film in the Inagaki/Mifune Samurai trilogy recieved a US release with narration by William Holden, though its apparently lost to time.

An English-dub for Yojimbo actually exists and was even released on an unlicensed DVD. I'm not sure who did the dubbing, though. Not a Toho film, but the original Criterion DVD also contains a dub for Rashomon, something that sadly wasn't ported over to the Blu-Ray upgrade.

Probably because the films themselves are simply respected too much.

Demonstrably false. But even if that were the case nowadays, how would Toho have known that back during their original releases (or at least when the films were semi-new)?

[Terasawa]

[snip]

Thanks for the plug! One I don't cover in that list (because it doesn't appear to be a Toho-commissioned dub):



Kurosawa's Ran was also dubbed in English. It's on the StudioCanal Blu-ray, but I haven't heard it myself.

[Angilasman]

It's amazing how many English dubs are seemingly lost to time. I wonder what a Zatoichi movie dubbed by Ted Thomas' crew sounds like!

[Terasawa]

An English-dub for Yojimbo actually exists and was even released on an unlicensed DVD. I'm not sure who did the dubbing, though.

I wasn't sure about this one either until I happened across this Boxoffice blurb (May 6, 1963). Peter Riethof ran the "American Dubbing Company," which at one point in the late '50s had operations in New York and Paris (their version of The Mysterians for RKO was done by the New York side).