>Your Name is now the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the second highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan, and the second highest-grossing anime film in Japan. The only Japanese film to gross higher is Spirited Away.
Why are the top Japanese movies in Japan both anime? Don't they have a live action film industry?
How does a shitty film like this make so much money?
Word of mouth marketing, and a plot with broader appeal than previous Makoto Shinkai stuff.
Need to add up those addicted audiences who contribute a large part of that income.
No one wants to see live action Japanese.
This is a movie for women.
WTF user, Mitsuha is too cute to be a design for women audiences.
China
Girls in chick flicks can be cute.
>highest grossing film in japan
>china
??????
Meme magic, it's a self perpetuating cycle of people saying the movie is killing it at the box office which causes more people to go see what all the fuss is about, causing it to kill the box office even harder.
And Taki is too cute to be a design for male audiences, but who's counting?
You're right. Mitsuha in Taki is essentially a fuccboi.
That fucking falsetto though.
SEETHING REEEEE
It just that fuckin good not in the sense of 2deep4u but in mainstream flick way that it just work.
Are you a Kyoanifag by chance
desu most live-action anything is bad by default. Except Saki.
But 'Sunset at the third street' is a masterpiece.
Live action films died in.Japan after their golden age of film, which ended around the 70s.
oh wow she looks really underage in that pic. trailer makes her look at least 16.
Japanese girls are short.
Like I said, by default.
I mean, I can't blame that in most cases, Japanese live-action's directions always seems off, like it wants new camera angles but it doesn't give them, or like the voice acting always feels never enough.
Even Korean and Chinese LAs fare better.
Well, she's 17...
Well, that's true. They become like this because just only Japanese market is enough to sustain the industry. That's what set the comfort zone for Japanese movie makers.
The average adult japanese woman look the average american junior high school girl.
And the average 30+ year old looks like the average barely legal college girl except she has faint crows feet.
that girl grabs dick?
By having an actual plot? Seriously, the writers put in some real effort to creating a good supernatural premise beyond the usual "Boy meets girl due to weird shit" trope
>Chinese
Mostly Hong Kong though.
Part of it is because the actors are more invested in having fun than being "realistic". The camera techniques are much less technically complex, too, which can give the feeling of a lower budget compared to Hollywood, though that's not to say the cinematography is of a lower grade.
can it beat Spirited Away?
Domestically? Need a miracle.
Globally? Yes, it can if it still perform in the same rate in China.
what are the current figures in Japan?
Live-action nippon kino recommendations:
> Tokyo Story
> Most Akira Kurosawa films
> Gojira (1954)
20.5 billion yen vs 30.8 billion yen of Spirited Away.
Global 219 million USD (mojo), 275 million USD (the-numbers) vs 275 million USD of Spirited away
It found a way
Maybe it isn't shitty? Have you ever considered that possibility?