Japan remaking Hollywood?

[Brian Ruh]

That's just what I was thinking. Also, it looks like Kami no Shizuku will be getting a TV adaptation early next year [1].(The manga recently got a writeup in the New York Times [2].) So is there a wine boom going on in Japan these days?

[1] http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-11-13/kami-no-shizuku-wine-manga-gets-tv-drama-in-january
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/dining/22comic.html

== Brian

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: noble 1362 <noble1362 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: Japan remaking Hollywood?
> To: kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 4:48 PM
> Perhaps it has something to do with the manga "Kami no
> Shizuku" which I think is still quite popular. Maybe
> it's backed by a wine company. Sales of wine skyrocketed
> in the US after "Sideways".