SkySnake said:

Does anyone have this Japanese Laseridsc of My Neighbor the Totoro?

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/161/

This is suppose to contain the best available version of the original streamline English dub. A dub that has been abandon ever since the Disney dub came out. Needless to say, I would love to sync this to the latest Blu Ray release :)

It is only in monaural and is on the second audio channel.

The best laserdisc source would be the much rarer US release which does not contain the Japanese soundtrack and is chopped to be in the 4:3 full frame format.

Honestly the best i have ever heard the track was on the Japanese region 2 dvd. Yeah its not lossless but this is a dual monaural track anyway. Not even sure if this was ever in true stereo.

The real rare dub Is Kiki's Delivery Service it was only ever released the one time on laserdisc. And never again it was never carried over to the first issue Japanese DVD.

The audio on the laserdisc is roughly equal to mono sound on a radio, if memory serves me. Too bad none of the Jal airlines prints have survived and there is no guarantee the audio on them would be much better.

They would have most likely been on 16mm.