Tuesday, July 26, 2011

A letter, Sachiko go? Japan's unique culture, unique resonance

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Asian film power going?

More than thirty people have seen China and Japan normalized diplomatic relations after the influx of Japanese film culture. The late seventies early eighties, people on the "hunt", "Homeward" and other Japanese films seem very obsessed with the case still fresh in our memory, that was one-third of Chinese people can back out the "hunt" in the lines is not an exaggeration. The eighties of last century can be said that Japanese business television, the peak of pure love drama "Oshin", "Blood suspect", "red shock" and other movies and television have deeply impressed the Chinese audience's heart. Although the nineties of last century in China's significant reduction in the number of Japanese movies and television, but "Tokyo Love Story" by the Chinese romance or younger audiences. This situation not only in China, other Asian countries are the same, the eighties and nineties, whether in China or Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and Thailand, Malaysia and other countries can see that many of the Japanese film and television work, turns out to be the heyday of Japanese film culture. The Japanese film and television work but also for Asian film and television producers to provide an example, played a leading role.

But now look, including mainland China, including many Asian TV stations, has rarely seen a Japanese drama. The film also occasionally only a few can be seen several. It can be said in Asia, Japan's film and television work there is a large market only cultural commonality strong Taiwan. So why the Japanese film culture back so quickly fade out? That which, of course there are other Asian countries increased the level of film and television works, works of Hollywood blockbusters such as the influx of European and American elements, including the Asian market, as well as Japan, the reasons for the development process itself.

Developed countries into the ranks of the old trouble

After the war, the Japanese economy for a long time to maintain rapid growth, and this process can be very similar to today's China. In this process, the Japanese film and television work but also very aggressive and a sense of happiness. However, since the 1990s since the collapse of the bubble economy, Japan's economy has experienced two decades of decline.

During this period the social situation in Japan has changed dramatically, even a mature developed countries begin to decline is a big country, there have been many social problems that deeply affect the lives of Japanese. For example, the psychological problems of economic recession blooms, which also caused a significant number of domestic violence and community violence occurred, reducing income or lack of confidence in the government led to the pension, health care and other issues intensify. Japanese interest in the issue of the extent of these growing national concern for the media is their selling point, so the film works on these issues has become mainstream. Although these issues is the future for developing countries will face problems, but after all, the increasing income, improving living standards of developing countries in Asia, the audience was not high level of interest in these issues.

Previously sold at a higher pure love movies, and basically disappeared from the Japanese film and television industry. With the restructuring of our society, the Japanese concept of the family and the concept of love has changed dramatically. For many young people, pure love is no longer beautiful, but a dangerous choice. Many young people in love many times before marriage so that they grow in love and then select the final after a life partner, there are many in this selection process not only for love. This idea has been ingrained in the younger generation, so now that pure love of the Korean or Taiwanese drama more obsessed, more than most five or six-year-old Japanese woman. This change is not only economic development, but also the influx of Western culture, and Japanese society accepted the consequences.

However, in many Asian countries, the influence of Confucianism is still quite large. Although the society has undergone change, but many people still desire the pure love, and therefore more popular compared to some drama.

Japan's unique culture is difficult to obtain resonance

Although Japanese culture has long been under the influence of China in ancient times, in modern times has been influenced by European and American culture, but it has not given up their own characteristics, in other words, Japan has absorbed many foreign culture is always after mixing them, allowed to become Japan's native culture. So, although the Japanese culture and Chinese culture is very origins, but Japan has a lot of culture is difficult for people to understand. For example, very sincere apology can be exempted from liability "apology culture", emphasizing the collective spirit of alien existence can not be a "collective culture", do not like to owe favors to "salute culture". In addition, because the development of modern imperialism, since the Japanese took to the road, the Asian countries a long act of aggression and colonization, these are the Japanese and other Asian countries have a different outlook on war and history, the history often occur involuntarily Among the television programs in Japan, they are difficult to achieve resonance in other countries.

Television production and distribution depends mainly on the television and rarely open up channels of distribution outside

Unlike China, Japan, TV production and distribution rely mainly on several television stations. Many TV series have been decided on a release time, that time period with the audience level to produce TV series. And a TV production is complete, only a television broadcast in which, generally only one premiere, in a replay after a few years only, even if the TV ratings high replay will only two or three times.

Because of this characteristic, although the shape of the Japanese drama, make-up so the system can be described as doing well, but mostly caters to the needs of the audience at that time, did not meet long operational considerations. The issue of promotion abroad is always a period of delay, work on a strong sense of the times more difficult to sell.

Television production and distribution work depends on the practice of television, it did not issue a useful mechanism. In the television broadcast after completing not below the maximum can only sell a few more DVD disc only. Many television market is valued in Japan and ratings, released for the right to sell abroad, and not much interest, and thus abandoned the large source of income. Japan's financial position before, the government paid people out of the cultural output, since the financial constraints, political within the government's concern for the cultural industry output has been extremely rare. Even Japan's most famous comic, said that is because publishers do not know how to control the foreign distribution, rather than to protect its intellectual property rights, allow it to be very few countries to sue pirates, and the Japanese Government has verbally protection of intellectual property, but the real implementation of the action is almost zero. It seems to create a professional release mechanism is the output of Japanese culture, an important way to overseas.

Entertainment Television and the United States there is a large distance

Japan's film market, because the number of multi-theater fare expensive, so the market is huge, is a focus of competition for the world. Even the United States and Hong Kong cinema of Hollywood blockbuster released in Japan are often smooth and to intentionally use Japanese actor starred. It is said that "Red Cliff" has made great box-office revenues in Japan one of the reasons is the choice of Takeshi Kaneshiro and Nakamura Shido and other Japanese popular star.

In recent years, the local film at the box office in Japan continue to increase, mainly due to the works reflect the social conditions in Japan increased, especially in the TV series based on the works adapted for film sequel increasing in Japan, although these films can achieve higher box office, but for those who have not seen the drama of foreign visitors, many of the plot is like a bible.

Although Japan has made efforts to learn some Hollywood blockbuster, and international film festivals in the Japanese market has made some achievements, but the scale of development is far below the U.S. film, even compared to China's growth rate is far less. This situation is how to create it?

In addition to the release mechanism just mentioned, and production of issues, there is an important point is that the way the Japanese film and television training problems. Many countries have specialized training in film and television talent to colleges, but such institutions in Japan are almost zero, only a few schools before one or two faculty can conduct relevant research, this year it opened a new one University of the film. Can be said that Japan's film and television production personnel with little formal academic training, in addition to learning a few back from the United States than in Europe, mostly in film and television companies to apprenticeship-style education to bring out the apprentices, although they actually experienced, but the lack of film theory and the development of global macro perspective. This contributed to making these people out of work lack of global television distribution strength, dragged into the world of Japanese film culture, the road back.

Now the Japanese TV drama is very strange for the Chinese audience

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Now the Japanese TV drama is very strange for the Chinese audience

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