NHK on Youtube

[Ken M Shima]

Yeah, NHK, Shochiku, and Kadokawa execs are all holding out, waiting for that lucrative overseas distribution deal  to fall in their laps. Because if they added English subs it would  kill the incentive right?

Short-sighted media management, sigh. 

Ken 
On Dec 10, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Eija Niskanen <eija.niskanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Which makes it virtually impossible to use Japanese DVDs for teaching...and makes the teacher teach rather Asian cinema than Japanese cinema - after all, it is easy to find Hong Kong, Korean etc. films with English subs. 
> 
> So Japanese film companies are indirectly supporting the spread of other Asian cinema?
> 
> Eija
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> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Michael Kerpan <mekerpan at verizon.net> wrote:
> Aren't almost all Japanese marketing decision of this sort stupid these days?
> 
> I've been stunned by the virtually total disappearance of English subs on Japanese DVDs (even Shochiku dropped subs on Yoji Yamada's new film -- after including subs for almost 10 years on new YY films).
> 
> MEK
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> --- On Thu, 12/9/10, Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Mark Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu>
> Subject: NHK on Youtube
> To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
> Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 10:39 PM
> 
> 
> Mark Schilling reports on Variety that.....
> 
>> NHK Enterprises, a subsid of pubcaster NHK that sells and acquires programming, is partnering with YouTube Japan to offer NHK programs on the site free of charge.
>> The programs on offer include popular NHK dramas and educational shows.
>> 
>> The service, called NHK Program Collection, launched on Monday with 200 uncut shows, as well as 30 three-minute edited highlights from programs, with new content to be added regularly. It can only be viewed on PCs in Japan, though it may expand to cell phones as well.
>> 
> Not offering it globally is simply stupid.
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> m
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> Eija Niskanen
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