They all look the same...

[Mark Nornes]

On Aug 31, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Kerim Yasar wrote:

> I've never known
> the Japanese to go see these foreign films about Japan
> with the expectation, or even the hope, of seeing
> themselves accurately represented.  Rather, they go
> out of curiosity to see exactly HOW they've been
> misrepresented,

But the long thread on Last Samurai on KineJapan was all about Japanese 
audiences being deeply moved by the film, and feeling that it took 
Hollywood to get the jidai-geki right. Unless I'm wrong, the discussion 
was at least implicitly arguing that it hit in Japan for precisely 
these reasons. It's this formula that does not seem to have weighed 
heavily on the box office calculation here. Curious.

Markus