[KineJapan] Kinema Junpo Best Ten 2013

[Quentin Turnour]

Apart from the animes and the Kore-ada, THE GREAT PASSAGE, THE DEVIL'S 
PATH, BACKWATER and TAMAKO IN MORATORIUM are all titles that have been 
getting some touring festival life and have been seen in both English 
subbed theatrical copies and screeners. (BACKWATER is on the Festivalscope 
site for example, for those who can access it)

The frustration often seems to be the odd film that Japanese critics 
really go for in the poll, but which don't seem to make it even out in 
international film festival circulation - perhaps because of the split 
between titles that get championed by festival programmers and those that 
have mainstream Japanese studio release. 

This is re Arron's comments; I suspect the one film I won't get to see on 
this year's list is PEKOROSU NO HAHA NI AI NI IKU, - whilst an indie film 
such as ANATOMY OF A PAPERCLIP will probably make it to many a film 
festival near you, because a number of influential western programmers 
have got behind it (Just as last year the hard to see film was the #2 THE 
DRUDGERY TRAIN and the #1 - Yang Yong-hi's brilliant OUR HOMELAND - was 
only finally seen on the back of a JAL airline seat).

Best wishes

Quentin Turnour, Manager, Arc Canberra Cinema Programs,
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia,
quentin.turnour at nfsa.gov.au
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From:   Mark Roberts <mroberts37 at mail-central.com>
To:     Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum 
<kinejapan at lists.service.ohio-state.edu>, 
Date:   09/01/2014 04:50 PM
Subject:        Re: [KineJapan] Kinema Junpo Best Ten 2013
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Hi Jonathan,

The 5% number is based upon me having checked the 90 new Japanese films 
screened at TIFF from 2007 to 2012, as well as all of the Japanese films 
screened at FILMeX since its inception, putting all of these titles into a 
database, and then checking them on IMDB and Amazon for distribution and 
availability. I am not trying to count fan-subbed versions of films 
because I assume they are all illegal.

My report on TIFF has more details about patterns of international 
distribution: 

http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/tablog/entries.en/2013/11/tiff-2013-a-change-of-course.html

For FILMeX, the details are in my report for forthcoming Directory of 
World Cinema: Japan 3 from Intellect Books.

Of course, IMDB and Amazon are not perfect data sources. If anybody has 
suggestions about more comprehensive online sources, I'm all ears.

Best,

Mark


On Jan 9, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Jonathan M. Hall wrote:

Mark, 
Regrettably, this doesn't surprise me. Is your 5% figure one you're 
estimating? Or is there some research or official figure you're referring 
to?
Jonathan

For reference, only about 5% of the new Japanese films screening in 
festivals here appear to be making it onto DVD, BR, or VOD outside of 
Japan.

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