Sony Pictures in Japan?

[Stephen Cremin]

There's also Sony PCL which is more involved on the Asian film side of
things.  I don't have their promotional blurb to hand.  Every year they give
an award at Pusan IFF and then I think help fund the director's next
project.  For example, they put money into Park Chul-soo's KAZOKU CINEMA and
possibly the new film by Song Il-gon (director of short THE PICNIC which
competed at Cannes).  Perhaps also Nelson Yu's PUSAN STORY and a Fruit Chan
project ... there are so many Fruit Chan projects.  Maekawa that heads that
up is a regular on the festival circuit.

[Please correct the above if there any misconceptions.]

Stephen (wondering who is going to play ASTRO BOY...)

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>From: Tohru & Yukiko Iokibe <studio5 at pacbell.net>
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>Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:58:17 -0700
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>Sony Pictures in Japan has two entities:
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>SPEJ (Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan)
>SPTVJ (Sony Pictures Television Japan)
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>SPTVJ licenses SPE/Columbia Tristar Picture's movies and
>television shows to local stations such as NHK, WOWOW,
>Fuji TV, etc.  SPEJ is structured from two divisions - Theatrical
>Distribution and Home Entertainment - each distributing
>Columbia Tristar and acquired products.
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>There seems to be  a project led by SPEJ to create a live action
>feature movie of 'ASTRO BOY (Tetsuwan Atom)' next year.
>I am not sure what entity is funding what %.  Pls refer for details
>in "Sony no Broadband Senryaku (Sony's Broadband Strategy)"
>by Sasaki Hiroshi, publisher: Nihon Jitsugyou Shuppan-sha,
>March 2001.
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>Check out their website.  There might be more projects going
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>>     KINEJAPAN Digest 489
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>>Topics covered in this issue include:
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>>  1) Sony Pictures in Japan?
>> by "Tom Mes" <china_crisis at hotmail.com>
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