[/floatl]Hollywood Reporter: Japanese filmmakers urged to look past border
Japanese moviemakers need to stop seeing their domestic market as their sole audience because a boom time in the industry is inevitably followed by lean years, Bey Logan, vp of the Weinstein Co., told a seminar on "Cool Japan Content"...that runs in parallel with the annual Tokyo International Film Festival..."Japan is one of the most fascinating, contradictory and frustrating markets," he said. "The biggest strength of the Japanese market is that it is so strong domestically, based on television shows that are already familiar to a Japanese audience, they do not travel outside of Japan." Consequently, producers do not even consider collaborations because they are effectively guaranteed a money-spinning product..."I would urge Japanese filmmakers to keep up their relations with outside companies because even though they are experiencing a boom at the moment, the time will come when there is a bust"...more...
