Living in Hollywood?

[Mark Mays]

HA! "Lighten up here people," he says as he prounounces the Japanese film
industry all but dead (^_^).

Don't forget about that other Cannes in competition film that opens wide
next week, "Ghost in the Shell: Innocence." Any word on an estimated release
date so that I can alert the programmers here?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
To: <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: Re: Living in Hollywood?


> >I'd like to see a remake of _Ikiru_, but only to update the quality of
> >print/sound... There's nothing in the film's construction that requires
> >any sort of "updating", otherwise, and the thought of Tom Hanks as
> >Watanabe really is depressing...
>
> Come on, it's just another Hollywood remake. It's highly likely that it
> won't be called Ikiru, and Hanks' character certainly won't be named
> Watanabe. It's not as if they're taking the original film and re-editing
> it, or adding a hip-hop soundtrack as Miramax is wont to do. Lighten up
> here people. There's more than enough to be depressed about in the
Japanese
> film industry right now without worrying about Hollywood all the time...
>
> Fortunately, there are a few positive things happening, such as the wide
> domestic release (including regional mass-market multiplexes) of Koreeda
> Hirokazu's Dare mo Shiranai (Nobody Knows). How many people here have been
> able to see this? For me, it's without a doubt one of the best Japanese
> films of the year; mind you, it's not had much competition so far. This is
> turning out to be an even more sparse year than the last one...
> Don Brown
>
>