Reupload: Guskou Budori no Denki / The Life of Gusko Budori / グスコーブドリの伝記 (1994) Movie

 

  A repost of an old release for archiving purposes, the TL notes are the same. 

Yes, it's the old one: https://anidb.net/anime/6572

For those interested in further investigation, [here](https://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/files/1924_14254.html) is the original book edition that we used it to make sure we're not bungling names [that are mostly made up], like the Ihatov(o) place that has a distinctive russian toponymic suffix for boondocks. But then again, unlike wasteofhair, I can't just ouijaboard Mr Miyazawa to ask whether this is a thing or just wikifags overthinking, so... why don't we leave it for your own imagination to decide? 

I must add, the movie does a great job catching the book's spirit and follows its plot remarkably well. It wouldn't be wrong to call this a sister-movie of WMT series. Though the 2012 remake is a piece of manure, I had the audacity to steal some translation solutions from Commie's sub for it. Also cribbed some lines from said original book. Whatcha gonna do about that? 

Still proved hard to translate, though. The wordings are seldom direct and the text is not without dated/archaic constructions. Meanwhile, I'm just a clueless weeb who has never read an old book in japanese, unhealthily used to the contemporary manga language. 

While this movie is two heads above the 2012 adaptation, I'm not deceiving you into thinking it's a GOAT. It uses, to my taste, some weird decisions in deviating from the source and also has a few blatant instances of violating the Chekhov's gun precept. Also, intentional or not, Budori occasionally produces some peculiar facial expressions that may lead you to conclude he suddenly developed a terminal stage of ADHD and hyperreaction. Or just had a stroke, which would be nothing surprising, really, considering what Budori been through. 

Still, it's consistent, well written, well animated, endearing, heartbreaking, and not disposing of the common sense under the pretext of being a movie for children. I shit you not, it brought me to tears.

Here is another pamphlet for the movie I found while doing the research. Its text can be found [here](https://t.ly/CUsT). 

All my .ass files are backed on [GitHub](https://github.com/Perevodildo/Perevodildo-softsubs)