UPDATE: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Japanese Trailer!

» January 23 by Tao in HP News, Rupert News with 38 Comments

hpnews2 January 23, 2009 – 11:27am: As we reported earlier, a new Japanese trailer for “Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince” featuring Rupert Grint is now online via YouTube. You can view it here. Rupert’s co-star Daniel Radcliffe introduces the bit and you can see plenty of new scenes: among them, several scenes with Jim Broadbent as Prof. Slughorn, Michael Gambon as Dumbledore, and the Death Eaters.  Be aware that some of it is dubbed in Japanese, however you will be able to hear most of the dialogue — though unfortunately Rupert has none. While the Rupert scenes are rather limited, we do get to see the action shot of Ron and Harry gripping hands before the quidditch match as well as the party scene in action from another angle. We will hopefully have a downloadable version very shortly as well as our own screencaps. Thanks to The Leaky Cauldron for the tip!

UPDATED: As promised, you can view some screencaps of the new Japanese HBP trailer here in our galleries. And download the trailer from our media site here. (This is in AVI format, if you have trouble playing it with windows, please let me know.)

38 Responses to “UPDATE: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Japanese Trailer!”

  1. Ron, you sexy mutha owwww…..

  2. I need more Ron!!!

  3. Nice grab, Ron!

  4. Exactly Luciana!
    My impressions:
    Apparition scenes – meh. Poor CGE.
    Jim Broadbent – magnificent!
    Emma – still hyperventilating! (scenes @ Slughorn’s office, the toast…) At 2:10-2:12 she’s also doing her shoulder thingy. And her crying scene is lame. Blah she should have taken those acting lessons BEFORE they started filming HBP, not AFTER!!!
    Little Tom Riddle – looks promising
    Luna – roflmao! I love her!

  5. Ahhh Ivana I thought the crying looked really good by Emma! You are a tough critic lol.

  6. How about Emma’s shoulders, Jo? :P

  7. LOL I don’t like to be overly critical until I’ve seen the entire scene. The way they cut and paste, sometimes it’s just completely unfair to the actors. And I have to say, lots of people don’t like Gambon, but I do like him as Dumbledore, but he seems so funny here… the way he delivered that line… “Most people vomit their first time.” haha

  8. I loved everything!!!

    Especially, DD (very lowkey), Draco and SNAPE!!

    HP LOVE!!!!

    Ron, Ron, Ron, Ron, boingy, boingy, boingy….

  9. YEah finally we get to see it! ITs sad we didnt get too much Ron :(
    It always break my heart when I see HErmione crying.. awww poor girl.
    Ivana you mean that movement she does with her shoulders?

    NOw we need that CB trailer!!

  10. LOL I keep thinking of everyone who logs on and sees the word “trailer” in the title and gets excited and then realizes, it’s just HBP. I’d probably do the same thing and then be all, “#%@#%#^^@!!” in the comments because it wasn’t the trailer we all want. :P

  11. Can someone just loop the hand grab scene with the boys? That’s all I care about seeing from this trailer.

  12. to ivana
    well.. not everybody looks good when crying .. and just 2 seconds shot not either.. well, it’s quite difficult to say that it was lame ;)

  13. I was happy, Tao…..

    Anything with Rupert makes me happy. *smiles*

  14. It was okay. The drama was lost with the over dramatic Japanese announcer.

    Needs more Ron.

    CB trailer, please. :D *goes to read new synopsis*

  15. Nik, I’m more than willing to allow Emma to prove me wrong. I do hope her performance in HBP will be a lot better than in the previous two movies, I really do. Man, I’m a huge R/Hr shipper and I don’t want either Emma (or Rupert, for that matter) to spoil those R/Hr moments for me!

  16. Hmm… While I was cleaning the apartment earlier today (phew!), I kept chanting to myself: “coooome on trailer – you gotta be there when I check ICM later – coooome on trailer”.
    Well, thank you to the higher powers and all… but erhm…. I kinda meant the CB trailer!!! Damn it!

    I like the new HP trailer though… just not enough Ron AT ALL!!

  17. I wish I could be more excited about the trailer. Maybe later after I’ve digested CB completely, but then I’ll be focused on WT. hmmmm.

  18. That. was. GREAT!! And the most dialogue we’ve heard yet from the movie.

    Dumbledore’s line: “That was fun. Most people vomit the first time.” HAHA! Love it! I agree, Tao, I’m one of those people who love Gambon as Dumbledore. He’s definitely got his quirkiness down.

    Draco’s scene in the bathroom…Tom looks great there, trembling and sweating. Looks like he’s going to be able to inspire actual sympathy for Malfoy.

    Emma looks perfectly fine to me in the crying scene. She just saw some trick KISSING her beautiful, wonderful Ron. I’d be HOWLING in the corridor. Harry would have to come over and slap me, then shove a firewhisky in my hand to calm me down.

    And yeah, more scenes with Ron and some dialogue from him would have taken the trailer from “great” to “AWESOME!”

  19. Malene, next time you’ll have to be more specific in your wishes. ;) LOL

    You know what’s funny? I was always excited to see HP because of Rupert. It was basically the only thing to get excited about. DL aside, you know… really most of that was out during a non-Potter year. But now, I watch, and I’m happy rather than extremely excited. It’s like, okay, another Rupert movie! Yes!! Does that make sense?

    Holy hell though, I had a CB dream!! I dreamt I was watching CB and I kept trying to see if I could hear Rupert’s Irish accent… and it was just, I couldn’t tell but he sounded like Robbie and all. It was weird. LOL

  20. that was quite good, I loved all the new scenes (DD seems better and Tom is lokking very belivable as Draco). I just wish we’d have a bit more Rupert, but whatever…love them gripping hands at the table tho :)

  21. But now, I watch, and I’m happy rather than extremely excited.

    Yeah that is exactly how I feel. We don’t have to spend time finding HBP news for any hope of Ron because if we don’t have HP news then we know we will have something on CB or WT coming. Man what a great year this is going to be.

  22. Where’s Laura? We need a looping gif of the hand-grab.

    I’ve just been replaying that part of the trailer over and over. Ron looks so fierce and confident when he does it, I’m surprised Hermione doesn’t sweep the Cheeri-Owls off the table and do him right then and there in full view of the Great Hall.

  23. I know I sure would. Hermione needs Lav’s passion for him. She doesn’t realize how lucky she is.

  24. To be fair, we had a good amount of Ron/Rupert in the other trailers, with barely any Hermione. Now we get more Hermione instead of Ron. Now all we need is both of them together lol!

  25. Pete you are right about that but we are hungry selfish Rupert fans. We can’t seem to get past the fact that it should be him and only him lol.

  26. Well actually we don’t get too much Hermione in this one either, only a few brief glimpses. But we get an enormous amount of Jim Broadbent, so I ain’t complaining. :)

  27. Though I would appreciate some Alan Rickman scenes too.

  28. Welcome Pete! *waves* I agree, I think we have been just so used to Ron/Rupert being thrown by the wayside the last few years that we get a little over annoyed when we don’t see him. hehe I’m just glad that we at least got a new Ron scene (even if brief) that rocked hardcore. I love his confidence in that. :D

  29. I just looked at the screencaps. I can’t get enough of the Ron/Harry scene. And look at Hermione, she can’t take her eyes off him. His sudden confidence is sooo sexy. I can’t wait to see him “performing miracles” in that Quidditch match. I’ll probably cheer like an a-hole when he does his little victory pose on the broomstick.

  30. Hey guys. Actually it’s Patrick from the R/E forums, I’m just using the name Pete for….some reason…lol.

    And no, I’m NOT a Rupert fangirl.xD Just a fan.

  31. *Pffft* Pattycakes, go home. LOL :)

  32. ^What the? I should have known you’d be here .

    ;PBut I am home.

  33. Ivana act like xiita!
    Get a life dude!

    Now, I want CB trailer!!

  34. *watches trailer*………where’s Malachy?

  35. Thanks guys for the trailer, and I think Emma is fine, I felt sad for Hermione-either for Ron kissing another girl or Ron almost dead- she was delivering that part good.

  36. Umm… Cool. but when are they going to show some scenes with Ron and Hermione??? I’m so frickin sick of Harry Potter right now. ugh. I need to hurry up and go read the book before I loose my passion. ;) Anyways… WHEN is the CB trailer going to come out??? That’ll make me happy!!! :)

  37. Lol Lisa if I get a life ICM won’t be updated as frequently as it is! So it’s better for everyone if I remain a HP geek. :P And man I don’t hate Emma, I just want her to do her job right. Is that too much to ask?!

  38. Guess what I’m eating………that’s right. Cherry drops.
    CHCHCHCHEEEERRRYYYBOOOOOOOOMMMBB!

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