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My brother in law bought this Star Wars DVD in an open air market in Beijing. Among chicken feet, dog testicles, dried fungus and other delicacies he found this gem of a Chinese Star Wars DVD release. The Engrish on the DVD sleeve is just perfect.

Star Wars is a popular film. There must be a reason. Let’s see what the story is about.

Ah, ok, under the two robots and days the line the road gra, with the HOSOLO , the etcwarrionr help by luck break out out of and lead to bravehy resist the soldier the scheme to take back the lost King dom. The second princess of insurre ction of faraway has something to do with it too. I get a feeling that R2-D2 and C-3PO are the bad guys. There is something under them.

Why did they need to translate the synopsis back to English? They must have received the original English copy along with flat art.

I was devastated when I found out that Luke is Leia’s brother. It shook up my preadolescent world. I really wanted them to get it on. Thirty years later I find it far more shocking that Harrison Ford’s name is simply Harris:

“PANAVISION PRINTS” makes no sense. FORMATTED TO FIT YOUR TO HT YOUR SCREEN? TECHINGICOLOR? What, ninja color?