Shochiku Film Fund

[mark schilling]

The Shochiku film fund tanto told me they expect to raise from Y100 million
to Y200 million from the fund from individual investors, out of the Y1.5
billion budget total. He also said they plan to make other films using the
fund scheme if they get a good response.

Fund returns will be based on not only box office, but also DVD and video
sales. Investors will be able to buy shares through a yet-unnamed Internet
broker. Any interested punters out there?

Mark Schilling
schill at gol.com



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sven Koerber" <svenkoerber at gmx.de>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 11:35 PM
Subject: Re: Shochiku Film Fund


> I wonder how strong the influence of these "individual investors" on the
> film itself will be. It would certainly not be the first time in Japan
that
> a film-investor who spends a big amount of money will noticeably shape the
> film. Since the 60ies / 70ies this was done a great many times mostly by
> advance ticket sales, to the extend that films were made to "support"
things
> like carpet sales or make kind of propaganda for big industrial projects
> like dams and skyscrapers.
>
> Are the investors now really only there for things like preview-tickets ?
> (And by the way, how will money return if there is no profit ?)
>
> Sven Koerber-Abe
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Aaron Gerow" <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>
> To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 8:30 PM
> Subject: Shochiku Film Fund
>
>
> > Shochiku announced that its planned jidaigeki, Shinobu, starring
> > Odagiri Jo and Nakama Yukie, will be partially financed by a "film
> > fund" collecting money from individual investors. This is a system that
> > already exists in Europe and Korea, but has not really been done in
> > Japan. Individual investors will buy a share at 100,000 yen apiece,
> > obtain various special goodies (like updates on production, invitation
> > to the preview, one's name on the DVD, etc.), and then a share of the
> > profits if there are any (even if there is no profit, some of the money
> > will return). Shochiku argues this is a new way to finance Japanese
> > cinema and involve regular fans and investors in production.
> >
> > Aaron Gerow
> > KineJapan owner
> >
> > Assistant Professor
> > Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> > Yale University
> >
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