J-Horror / Yamaguchi Yoshiko

[Michael McCaskey]

Dear Jason Gray,

Thank you very much! I have been trying to find out what Kore'eda was doing next for a while now, without success, and I very much appreciate this lead.

Re Yamaguchi Yoshiko and Kawashima, I found when I was doing some research on Kawashima a couple of years ago that several Chinese popular films have been made about her story, and have done quite well. It may be that the espionage angle and the Manchu Princess angle helped. So there may be a good chance that Kore'eda's film can do well in a broader Asian market, as well as in Japan, via the Kawashima part.

Michael McCaskey
Georgetown Univ.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jason Gray <loaded_films at yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 0:49 am
Subject: J-Horror / Yamaguchi Yoshiko

> Emma,
> 
> You may be interested in this article that entertainment
> chart purveyors Oricon published today that ranks
> J-horror's top 10 scariest films (ie. franchises), with
> the voting also broken down into male and female viewers: 
> 
> http://www.oricon.co.jp/news/ranking/46667/
> 
> The "Ring" series is the undisputed heavyweight champion.
> 
> Tokyograph's abridged English summary of the article is
> here:
> 
> http://www.tokyograph.com/news/id-1443
> 
> 
> Regarding Yamaguchi Yoshiko, I wonder if the Ueto movie
> has helped or hindered Kore-eda's "Night-fragrant Flower"
> project (PDF details available from the following link)
> 
> http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/project2007.htm
> 
> 
> jg
> 
> 
> 
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