<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Yeah, NHK, Shochiku, and Kadokawa execs are all holding out, waiting for that lucrative overseas distribution deal to fall in their laps. Because if they added English subs it would kill the incentive right?<br><br></div><div>Short-sighted media management, sigh. </div><div><br></div><div>Ken </div><div>On Dec 10, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Eija Niskanen <<a href="mailto:eija.niskanen@gmail.com">eija.niskanen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Which makes it virtually impossible to use Japanese DVDs for teaching...and makes the teacher teach rather Asian cinema than Japanese cinema - after all, it is easy to find Hong Kong, Korean etc. films with English subs. <div>
<br></div><div>So Japanese film companies are indirectly supporting the spread of other Asian cinema?<br><div><br></div><div>Eija<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Michael Kerpan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mekerpan@verizon.net"><a href="mailto:mekerpan@verizon.net">mekerpan@verizon.net</a></a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Aren't almost all Japanese marketing decision of this sort stupid these days?<br>
<br>I've been stunned by the virtually total disappearance of English subs on Japanese DVDs (even Shochiku dropped subs on Yoji Yamada's new film -- after including subs for almost 10 years on new YY films).<br><br>
MEK<br><br>--- On <b>Thu, 12/9/10, Mark Nornes <i><<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a></a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px">
<br>From: Mark Nornes <<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a></a>><br>Subject: NHK on Youtube<br>To: "KineJapan" <<a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank"><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu">KineJapan@lists.acs.ohio-state.edu</a></a>><br>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 10:39 PM<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div>Mark Schilling reports on Variety that.....<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,'MS Reference Sans Serif';font-size:14px;line-height:17px"><blockquote type="cite">
NHK Enterprises, a subsid of pubcaster NHK that sells and acquires programming, is partnering with YouTube Japan to offer NHK programs on the site free of charge.<p style="margin:20px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">
The programs on offer include popular NHK dramas and educational shows.</p><p style="margin:20px 0px 1em;padding:0px;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">The service, called NHK Program Collection, launched on Monday with 200 uncut shows, as well as 30 three-minute edited highlights from programs, with new content to be added regularly. It can only be viewed on PCs in Japan, though it may expand to cell phones as well.</p>
</blockquote><div>Not offering it globally is simply stupid.</div><div><br></div><div>m</div><div><br></div></span></div></div></div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>Eija Niskanen<br>Baltic Sea - Japan Film Project<br>Kichijoji Honcho 4-12-6 <br>Musashino-shi<br>Tokyo 180-0004<br>
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