Swallowtail

[Mark Schilling]

On April 9 Aaron Gero wrote,

  
>(Swallowtail) by the way, was only a mild success in Japan: in general, it
was 
> considered a disappointment because of even greater box office 
> expectations after the success of _Love Letter_.)

I know how hard it is to believe that movies we hate can be a success, but
Swallowtail, sorry to say, was a smash hit in Japan, playing for 18 weeks
in first-run engagements, recording 650,559 admissions and grossing
Y993,344,914. 

Mark Schilling (schill at gol.com)