Siegel Clyne
2006-09-26, 21:44
Old Hollywood, New Japan - Los Angeles Times (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-ca-japanfilm24sep24,1,2905760.story?ctrack=1&cset=true)
WORLD CINEMA
Old Hollywood, New Japan
Japanese filmgoers may love American movies, but the nation's TV networks know what audiences really want to see on the big screen.
By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2006
OLD-TIME Hollywood moguls would have loved a film producer like Chihiro Kameyama.
Sure, they might have raised an eyebrow at the former TV executive's designer glasses and, no, he wasn't chomping a cigar as he held forth on the healthy state of Japanese movies from a corner office of Fuji TV's headquarters, the eccentric Tokyo landmark that looks like it belongs on "The Jetsons."
Kameyama, who produced "Bayside Shakedown," says the multimedia model was forged by the anime industry, which was the first to realize that it could showcase popular characters on media platforms from comic books to TV and movies. Some anime is now even downloaded onto cellphones. "We move side by side with the audience," says Kameyama. "We don't get too far ahead of them." (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-ca-japanfilm24sep24,1,2905760.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=1)
WORLD CINEMA
Old Hollywood, New Japan
Japanese filmgoers may love American movies, but the nation's TV networks know what audiences really want to see on the big screen.
By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer
September 24, 2006
OLD-TIME Hollywood moguls would have loved a film producer like Chihiro Kameyama.
Sure, they might have raised an eyebrow at the former TV executive's designer glasses and, no, he wasn't chomping a cigar as he held forth on the healthy state of Japanese movies from a corner office of Fuji TV's headquarters, the eccentric Tokyo landmark that looks like it belongs on "The Jetsons."
Kameyama, who produced "Bayside Shakedown," says the multimedia model was forged by the anime industry, which was the first to realize that it could showcase popular characters on media platforms from comic books to TV and movies. Some anime is now even downloaded onto cellphones. "We move side by side with the audience," says Kameyama. "We don't get too far ahead of them." (http://www.latimes.com/business/custom/cotown/la-ca-japanfilm24sep24,1,2905760.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=1)