<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Mark Schilling reports about another streaming effort in <i>Variety. </i>Hopefully, this one won't require Windows. <div><br></div><div>Markus<br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; "><table class="contentpaneopen" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; "><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td class="contentheading" width="100%" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 120%; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Shochiku movies flow in new stream</td><td align="right" width="100%" class="buttonheading" style="vertical-align: middle; "><a href="http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6001&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=53" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6001&pop=1&page=0&Itemid=53','win2','status=no,toolbar=no,scrollbars=yes,titlebar=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes,width=640,height=480,directories=no,location=no'); 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; width: 100%; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 10px; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td width="70%" align="left" valign="top" colspan="2"><span class="small" style="height: 20px; vertical-align: bottom; font-size: 80%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">Written by Mark Schilling </span> </td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td valign="top" colspan="2" class="createdate" style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); height: 20px; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: top; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-top: 0px; ">Wednesday, 30 April 2008</td></tr><tr style="vertical-align: top; "><td valign="top" colspan="2"><div id="tagsForContentId6001" style="width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; "><small><i>Story Categories: <a href="http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_tag/tag,Film/Itemid,0/" title="View all items in the Film topic" class="tags" rel="category tag" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Film</a>, <a href="http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_tag/tag,Internet/Itemid,0/" title="View all items in the Internet topic" class="tags" rel="category tag" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Internet</a>, <a href="http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_tag/tag,Japan/Itemid,0/" title="View all items in the Japan topic" class="tags" rel="category tag" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Japan</a>, <a href="http://www.varietyasiaonline.com/component/option,com_tag/tag,Shochiku/Itemid,0/" title="View all items in the Shochiku topic" class="tags" rel="category tag" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Shochiku</a>,</i></small></div><br>TOKYO -- Shochiku will bow Shochiku Online, a streaming service for its pics, on May 21.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; ">Users will be able to view one pic for seven days for ¥367 ($3.54) or take out a monthly subscription for $10.14.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; ">The site will be operated by Shochiku subsid Eisei Gekijo (Satellite Theater), with an initial target of 100,000 subscribers. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; ">Shochiku will launch the service with 100 pics, including classics from auteurs <a href="http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/794396/Yasujiro%20Ozu.html?dataSet=1" class="infusionLink" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Yasujiro Ozu</a> and <a href="http://www.variety.com/profiles/people/main/585932/Keisuke%20Kinoshita.html?dataSet=1" class="infusionLink" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Keisuke Kinoshita</a> and its 48-episode "Tora-san" series, about a wandering peddler who is forever falling in love.</p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; ">It will add 10-20 titles monthly and will be streaming 200 titles by the end of its first year. </p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; width: 500px; text-indent: 1.5em; ">Shochiku has been webcasting its contents on its Cinelier site in cooperation with <a href="http://www.variety.com/profiles/Company/main/2213004/Showtime.html?dataSet=1" class="infusionLink" style="color: rgb(178, 59, 3); text-decoration: none; ">Showtime</a> and other partners since 2006.</p></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div></div></body></html>