Yoshio Tsuchiya, star of _Gasu Ningen Daiichigo_/_The Human Vapor_ (1960), prefers the English version of that film because of how it was re-edited.  In the English version, his character tells the early parts of the story as a flashback (a scene
that is in the Japanese version, just not shown that way), whereas the Japanese version begins as a mystery.  So even though he's not the one saying his lines, he finds the structure works better, and he's probably right, although Brenco Pictures DID
heavily shorten it for US release.

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> >It's very rare to find a film where the translation improves on the
> >original.
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> One of the rare book examples appears to be "One Hundred Years of Solitude."  Garcia Marquez always said the English version is better and I thought he was just being polite but I know three fluent Spanish/English speakers who say the same thing.
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