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Isn't that what the original title field is for?
Japanese locality DVD's should be based on japanese, not english so this title should be the japanese translations, even if that means english talking localities experience a minor nuiscance because of it.
Anyway, perhaps a searchoption on original title could fix this problem?

Yes, that's what the original title is used for.
And it would probably make the search much more easier if we could base the search on it.
This way, the result will be much more predictable.

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Except it was not an "incorrect" contribution, was it?  It was exactly according to the Rules!

No, it was not "correct" according the rules as I have stated above in my previous post.

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The dvd for Kill Bill in Japan is another funny example.  The cover offers the Title in 2 languages.
A dominant "KILL BILL Vol.1" and also the japanese translation "Kiru biru vol.1".  The rules tells us to use the language that match the locality.  So in this case it will be "Kiru biru vol.1"

Well, you're half right. Kiru Biru is the Japanese pronounciation of the title on the cover, but it's not written that way and you are not allowed to use an alternate title.

In fact, "Kiru biru" is pronounced "Kill Bill" 
In japanese, the letter R is more closely pronounced as a "L"  and the "U"is barely audible.

Using Romaji for inputing text in computer application is a perfectly acceptable pratice of japanese romanization.
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OK, thanks for the info. I didn't know that. But I still think we're not allowed to use Kiru Biru, as we pronounce it differently than someone from Japan and it's not what we see on the cover.

Allowed or not...  I couldn't say.  This all seems pretty confusing to me.
I own only a handful of japanese titles (all of then have both english and japanese titles on the cover)  and when I contributed them before the new rule for the title, I just used the English title which is also the movie title.

It was so much easier at that tme 

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Except it was not an "incorrect" contribution, was it?  It was exactly according to the Rules!

No, it was not "correct" according the rules as I have stated above in my previous post.

I guess I missed your explanation.

Please explain, based on the current rules, why it is not according to the Rules.

The current rules ask you to take the title from the front cover. Nowhere on the front cover is the title written as "X III: The Last Stand". There is neither a "X" nor a "III" (Roman numeral) on the cover. We only see the words "The Last Stand" and a X-Men logo which resembles a X and three claws which tell us that this is the third film in a series. Is the title "The Last Stand"? No, its the tag line or the subtitle. So, we can not find the title at all on the front cover similar to the Batman situation.

The only problem we have now, is that we have no direction in the rules, where we should look for the title, when it can not be found on the front cover. But simulating the logos by ASCII art is nowhere supported in the rules.

Don't want to state the obvious but at the end of the day.... the Title should still be a Title.
I mean, there's a zillion possibilities for the a dvd title.  It could come from the credit block, the spin, the cover, the opening credits, translatated in 100 of languages.

Between all these alternatives, the rule says to choose the front cover.
In no way, we should have to come up with a new made-up title just to match some graphic on the front cover.

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The current rules ask you to take the title from the front cover. Nowhere on the front cover is the title written as "X III: The Last Stand". There is neither a "X" nor a "III" (Roman numeral) on the cover. We only see the words "The Last Stand" and a X-Men logo which resembles a X and three claws which tell us that this is the third film in a series. Is the title "The Last Stand"? No, its the tag line or the subtitle. So, we can not find the title at all on the front cover similar to the Batman situation.

The only problem we have now, is that we have no direction in the rules, where we should look for the title, when it can not be found on the front cover. But simulating the logos by ASCII art is nowhere supported in the rules.

I totally agree with you, your statement is pertinent.

I think we are here in one of the 1% cases where rules cannot be blindly followed without doing stupid things. Everyone everywhere in the world who will buy this title knows which is the right title of the movie. So, let us use it...

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The current rules ask you to take the title from the front cover. Nowhere on the front cover is the title written as "X III: The Last Stand". There is neither a "X" nor a "III" (Roman numeral) on the cover. We only see the words "The Last Stand" and a X-Men logo which resembles a X and three claws which tell us that this is the third film in a series. Is the title "The Last Stand"? No, its the tag line or the subtitle. So, we can not find the title at all on the front cover similar to the Batman situation.

The only problem we have now, is that we have no direction in the rules, where we should look for the title, when it can not be found on the front cover. But simulating the logos by ASCII art is nowhere supported in the rules.

Based on the current rules... What should be the title for this one? 



Here there's no graphics to simulate.  Is it simply letter X or is this a graphic letter representing an idealogy carried by one man, Malcolm X ?  Then in this case... "X" = "Malcolm X"

I'd enter it as "X", original title "Malcolm X".
The X on the cover can not be interpreted as anything other then a letter "X" so I cannot assume the DVD producer did NOT mean for this to be the title of this specific release. In total abscence of ANY alpanumeric sign, a title could be taken from the spine / back / credits.