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Somewhat along these lines, I was curious if anyone could tell me about or point me to <div>a good source on the less shady diversification of the film industry in the 1970s. I was</div><div>reading somewhere about the Toho Flyers (I think?), which I gather was a baseball team,</div><div>and about studios getting into the bowling business, but couldn't find much more about</div><div>it. Any information or references would be much appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Kirsten</div><div><br><div><div><div>On Oct 16, 2008, at 7:14 AM, Aaron Gerow wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">In a curious bit of news, Sankei and other news services reported that the police have arrested the president and one of the directors of the film distribution company Root Pictures for running an illegal casino. Root Pictures is far from being a major company, having only distributed smaller films like Fuko Fukutusu:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://futo-fukutsu.cocolog-nifty.com">http://futo-fukutsu.cocolog-nifty.com</a>/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">On a humorous side, is this a sign that the business is bad? Or that that there are few openings for smaller companies in this industry? Or that the boom is attracting some disreputable characters?</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Aaron Gerow</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">KineJapan owner</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Assistant Professor</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yale University</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For list commands, send "information kinejapan" to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">listserver@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Kinema Club: <a href="http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html">http://pears.lib.ohio-state.edu/Markus/Welcome.html</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Kirsten Cather</div><div>Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies</div><div>1 University Station, G9300</div><div>Austin, TX 78712</div><div>WCH 5.104B; <a href="mailto:kcather@mail.utexas.edu">kcather@mail.utexas.edu</a>; 512.471.0031 (office)</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>