Asian Invasion

[Lang Thompson]

>I remember all the hype a couple years ago over "Princess Mononoke," when
>not a few people (including yours truly) were predicting that it would
>replace "Shall We Dance?" as the most successful Japanese film ever released
>in the US box office. Didn't happen, unfortunately -- but no one then
>suggested that PM might not qualify for this distinction because most prints
>were dubbed. Something to do, perhaps, with PM being regarded as a
>masterpiece -- while the Pokemon films are regarded as being critically
>beneath contempt?


In the US "Godzilla 2000" outgrossed "Shall We Dance" and "Pokemon the
First Movies" far more than those two combined but that's one reason
there's a distinction between foreign-language and foreign films.  They're
marketed and perceived differently (meaning Pokemon is barely considered
foreign and Godzilla quaintly so).  Not a hard and fast distinction except
for Oscar eligibility but just a way to approach some of the way this works
in various markets.

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