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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Easy solution:
Take the "World-wide" / "World-wide (English)" title, and add the release year in parentheses.
Result: Seven Samurai (1954) instead of https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047478/
Even better solution:
Take title and add the "(original title)" behind it in parentheses, but only if it differs.
Result: Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai) (1954)
Better solution:
Check the release country and add that country's non-transliterated title instead.
Result: Seven Samurai (七人の侍) (1954)
Note that for TV/mini series, this will be more complicated, and various information might be missing. A missing year is a rare occurrence for movies as well. There are often several release dates for episodes, so we should take the earliest one. For the English title, "United States" and "United Kingdom" should be a fallback to "World-wide (English)". This will get really complicated, so this could be implemented in an easier version first.
Result: New Jack City (1996-05-03), S02E09 of Father Ted (1995-1998)
Angel Attack (Shito, Shuurai) (1995-10-04), S01E01 of Neon Genesis Evangelion (新世紀エヴァンゲリオン) (1995-1996)
Sample picture of the most complicated variant attached.
Also note that IMDb entries sometimes change their release date or title, or a translated title gets added, so there should be a regular on the server updating those once a week or so.