kuri wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>
> > BTW, if the comparison had been against US cinema, I would not have
> disagreed.
>
> I would have disagreed.
> I think Japanese cinema has reached abyssal depth. The Japanese directors
> do TV dramas or porn , some of
> them occasionnally try to do cinema when they are allowed to by the system.
> Now, they are very few. As Ernest said, today's *Kurosawa* is Beat Takeshi.
> And he finds money to do his films mostly because he is a funny TV talento.

You think Japanese cinema is worse than even US cinema (or at least
proportionally), even including the deliberately B grade, or straight to video
stuff? You are even harsher than professional film critics or commentators I
have read?

Meet your new playmate, Ernest. I will only comment on the content of our
previous posts themselves, not the state of Japanese cinema or movies in
general.

> > 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.
>
> I agree that the big problem with American crap is it's exported, while crap
> from other countries tends to stay there.

Also says something that Japanese will import American crap (cinema or video)
rather than watch their own including the good, and in much larger numbers,
perhaps with greater financial success.

> But there is a number of American
> directors that are making real cinema. Every year, there are new ones. No
> matter how much crap is made in France or the US, lots of good stuff is done
> too. You can't say that about Japanese cinema in 2005.
> I'm curious to hear which Japanese movies Ernest would recommand. Among
> those now in theater, among those of 2004 or 2003.

Generally, I like Japanese movies popular in the theaters with Japanese, though
I wait for it to be released on video and rented for 100 yen, though I avoid
kids animation such as stuff from TV shows. I haven't developed a taste for
anything Korean.