Here is a riddle (about Japanese localized titles)

I know it's a bit sudden, but here is a riddle.

What is the original title of this film?

素晴らしき哉、人生！

哉is a somewhat difficult word, it's used to express admiration.

Can you figure it out?

I realized it would be fun to guess the original titles of localized movies and such.

What about these?

カッコーの巣の上で

羊たちの沈黙

市民ケーン

Recently there has been a tendency for movie titles to not be substituted with Japanese instead just replaced with Katakana, like ハンガー・ゲーム、ミリオンダラー・ベイビー、ロイヤル・テネンバウムズとかです。

This tendency has been increasing, even though many English terms are unfamiliar for Japanese people.

For example, ハンガー is always associated with a clothes hanger.

Sometimes it's hard to imagine what it's about from the title.

It can cause low sales, so often it's still necessary to give them Japanese titles.

For example in the case of "17歳のカルテ", originally "Girl, Interrupted ", it's really hard to imagine what it is about.

First of all, many Japanese people don't know the word "interrupt" and even if someone knows the word, it feels something is lacking and can't make sense.

By using 17歳 and カルテKarte meaning "medical chart", it implies the movie is related to illness or going to the hospital for the youth. This is considered a successful case.

But some movies have terrible translated titles.

But not every movie is like this; some movies have terrible translated titles.

Next riddles here.

The following are more intricate. Several decades ago, most titles were translated and publishers were eager to think up attractive titles.

Going ever further back, all titles were translated.

These are some titles from that age.

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嵐が丘

白鯨

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007は二度死ぬ