Archive for category Japan Industry News

Takashi Miike about the Japanese film industry

Posted by admin in Japan Industry News on February 19, 2012

http://wildgrounds.com/2012/02/17/takashi-miike-about-the-japanese-film-industry/ Takashi Miike was at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam to present the Ace Attorney live-action movie. There, he had the opportunity to share his thoughts on the Japanese Film Industry. It’s worth saying that over the years, Miike has become a mainstream director, working on big budget productions, still trying to bring his odd-weird touch, to [...]

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Foreign film producers keen to tap into NZ talent

Posted by admin in Asia Industry News, Australia/New Zealand Industry News, China Industry News, Japan Industry News on November 15, 2011

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10765786 By Lincoln Tan Shogo Tomiyama is one of Japan’s top film makers and producer of blockbuster movies like Godzilla: Final Wars, Ring and Seven Samurai. But the studio veteran of 35 years wants to send budding Japanese producers to the land of the Hobbit to learn the art of film making. Top producers from the Asia Pacific region [...]

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Indian films set to make inroads in Japan?

Posted by admin in Asia Industry News, India Industry News, Japan Industry News on October 18, 2011

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/indian-films-set-to-make-inroads-in-japan/193933-8-66.html Mumbai: While Indian films have a global reach, they have yet to find a foothold in Japan. A senior official of Japan’s oldest production studio says Rajinikanth-starrer ‘Robot’ motivated him to pay more attention to Indian movies. “This is my very first Mumbai film festival and my very first visit to India. I think it’s [...]

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Japan Government Helps Fund Budori Gusuko, Blood-C Film

Posted by admin in Asia Industry News, Japan Industry News, State/Government Production Incentive News on October 3, 2011

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-10-02/japan-government-helps-fund-budori-gusuko-blood-c-film The Agency for Cultural Affairs of the Japanese government announced on Friday that it will help fund five projects for this year’s Support Program for International Co-Production, including two anime: The Legend of Budori Gusuko(Gusukobudori no Denki) and the Blood-C film. Tezuka Productions and Production I.G will each receive 50 million yen (about US$650,000) for the two anime projects. Tezuka Productions took over Group TAC‘s The [...]

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