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INTEREST: Japanese Filmmakers Start Online Petition Asking Urgent Government Support for Mini Theate




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TarsTarkas



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:29 pm Reply with quote
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(Mini theaters reduced seats and numbers of screenings to cooperate with the antivirus campaign.)


You are not cooperating with the antivirus campaign.

If you are seating in a theater (even with 6 feet of separation between people) for an hour or two; you are still going to be bathed in everyone's personal aerosol. The 6 feet of separation is only good for a brief period of time (especially indoors). As that American choir found out the hard way. It'll be in your hair, on your clothes, and you may receive it on your eyes.

Even in Japan, not everyone wears masks.

They are having the same problems we are with the closures of our theaters. We will just have to see what the damage is, after things change hopefully for the better.
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samuelp
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 5:34 pm Reply with quote
Unlike in the US, where we've had laws preventing the owership of movie theaters by movie studios since the end of the Big Studio system, Japan never had such laws in place and as such almost all large movie theaters are owned by the large movie/entertainment companies like Toho, etc.
The tiny indie theaters left in the country are barely a blip in the economy, and they can't even get access to major films to show if they wanted to.

This will surely cause even more of them to disappear, but frankly they could just pop up again in a year. They seemed to randomly shut down and pop up again during normal economic times, their existence was so precarious.
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omiya



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PostPosted: Mon Apr 13, 2020 9:07 pm Reply with quote
I've only once been to an independent cinema in Japan, but agree that the smaller cinemas are worth saving.

I saw 主戦場 (Shusenjo - The Main Battleground of The Comfort Women Issue) http://www.shusenjo.jp/ at a small cinema in Shibuya - http://www.imageforum.co.jp/ which appears to currently be closed.

Japan just doesn't seem to have gone for support measures to the extent that other countries such as Australia have to enable businesses to pause including income support and rent relief, even though such measures are limited in Australia. (All cinemas in Australia were closed over a month ago).
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 2:02 am Reply with quote
samuelp wrote:
Unlike in the US, where we've had laws preventing the owership of movie theaters by movie studios since the end of the Big Studio system, Japan never had such laws in place and as such almost all large movie theaters are owned by the large movie/entertainment companies like Toho, etc.
The tiny indie theaters left in the country are barely a blip in the economy, and they can't even get access to major films to show if they wanted to.

This will surely cause even more of them to disappear, but frankly they could just pop up again in a year. They seemed to randomly shut down and pop up again during normal economic times, their existence was so precarious.

Well, with those Paramount Decree laws, Disney was not subjected to in that court case.
Unless it was a case of a movie company owning a movie chain that specializes in exhibiting that movie company's catalog (like a movie theatre devoted to playing the various Universal Pictures horror movies), movie companies shouldn't own theatres.

Heck, the same applies in reverse. For example, Paramount is owned by ViacomCBS, which is owned by National Amusements. NA, per its' Wikipedia entry, is "an American privately owned theater company and mass media holding company based in Dedham, Massachusetts and incorporated in Maryland.[1] It is the parent company of ViacomCBS."
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