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I'll keep an eye out for the Saturday night Kenshin.

I prefer subtitles for foreign films, too. Japanese dubbing cracks me up, though :) I also like when they splice stuff into Japanese films to try to make it more appealing to the US market. When they released the original Godzilla in the US, they added scenes with Raymond Burr playing a reporter named "Steve Martin" (LOL!) so there would be an American character. It's hilarious because in Burr's scenes, all the Japanese characters are played by a small group of actors who play different characters in different scenes (like we're not supposed to notice!). My favorite character is a Japanese scientist who misprounces the word "phenomenon" several times as "phenomemom" and, when asked how Godzilla could still be alive after millions of years, explains, "Well, it is possible, due to the curvature of the Earth's surface. . ."--ROFLMBO!

When they released the original Godzilla in the US, they added scenes with Raymond Burr playing a reporter named "Steve Martin"

I actually own that on dvd. ;) Love those old Godzilla movies.

That's pretty funny!

Yeah, dubbing can result in some pretty amusing stuff - "All your base are belong to us", anyone? I would imagine that it's easier to get silly results when translating from Chinese or Japanese rather than a language that's more related to English. I bet there are a lot more words that just don't translate. Or concepts that won't work because we have no frame of reference for them. I wish I weren't a linguistic moron, I'd love to study that sort of thing... sigh, I guess English will have to be good enough for me.