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From: Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp>
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Subject: Re: RASHOMON
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 01:08:04 +0900
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kuri wrote:

> "Ernest Schaal" <eschaal@max.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote in message
>
> > Apparently, your knowledge of cinema is almost non-existence,
>
> Meaning yours is extended...
>
> > > You think Japanese cinema is on a par with French cinema? Do you mean
> > > historically
> > > or in the present? I'd be interested in hearing more about this.
>
> Ernest, did you miss that one ? Can you explain what you mean ? I find your
> attack against French cinema very unfair.

Oh, do you also believe it is an odd comparison?

BTW, if the comparison had been against US cinema, I would not have disagreed.
I can see American crap on the shelves in Japan I wouldn't see at home even at
Blockbuster, and do not doubt why it did not make it into any local theater.
As I said, if I want to watch mediocre movies (or even movies so bad I enjoy
them), there is more than enough selection just from English language films,
which probably make up about 40% of everything on local shelves (with the
remainder about 25% animation, 20% domestic live action of all genres, and 20%
porn - I know it doesn't round exactly).