Kimi no na wa

How does a shitty film like this make so much money?

>>150954844
Word of mouth marketing, and a plot with broader appeal than previous Makoto Shinkai stuff.

>>150954885
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.

>>150955142
WTF anon, Mitsuha is too cute to be a design for women audiences.

>>150954844
China

>>150955411
Girls in chick flicks can be cute.

>highest grossing film in japan
>china
??????

>>150954844
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.

>>150955411
And Taki is too cute to be a design for male audiences, but who's counting?

>>150957190
You're right. Mitsuha in Taki is essentially a fuccboi.

>>150957265
That fucking falsetto though.

>>150954844
SEETHING REEEEE

>>150954693
It just that fuckin good not in the sense of 2deep4u but in mainstream flick way that it just work.

>>150954844
Are you a Kyoanifag by chance

>>150954693
desu most live-action anything is bad by default. Except Saki.

>>150957903
But 'Sunset at the third street' is a masterpiece.

>>150954693
Live action films died in.Japan after their golden age of film, which ended around the 70s.

>>150954693
oh wow she looks really underage in that pic. trailer makes her look at least 16.

>>150958151
Japanese girls are short.

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>>150958101
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.

>>150958151
Well, she's 17...

>>150958429
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.

>>150958151
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.

>>150954693
that girl grabs dick?

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>>150954844
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

>>150958429
>Chinese
Mostly Hong Kong though.

>>150958429
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?

>>150960161
Domestically? Need a miracle.
Globally? Yes, it can if it still perform in the same rate in China.

>>150960235
what are the current figures in Japan?

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>>150957903
Live-action nippon kino recommendations:
> Tokyo Story
> Most Akira Kurosawa films
> Gojira (1954)

>>150961090
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

>>150954844
It found a way

>>150954844
Maybe it isn't shitty? Have you ever considered that possibility?