If there’s a bright center to the universe …
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on May 20th, 2008
This week-end, even if I live in a third world country with a teetering economy, I can still cut through the jungle with my machete as I make my way to the local rundown movie duplex and catch the latest Indian Jones movie, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Skulls.
However, if I live in the worlds second biggest economy, a country known for its high tech gadgetry, can I see the movie? No. Japan is literally one month behind every other country showing the film. Check it out.
What gives here?
May 20th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Take a look at Iron Man’s release dates:
UK 2 May 2008
USA 2 May 2008
Egypt 7 May 2008
Japan 20 September 2008
It’s the same every damn time. Japan gets the movies dead last almost every time (except for Star Wars and Spiderman)
May 20th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Indy is opening just in time for the Japanese summer vacation. Not sure about the Iron Man timing, but that isn’t a character that the audiences here would know about anyway, so no rush on the translation gig, I suppose.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Durf,
I understand what you are saying. And here is longish article explaining the ins and outs of movie releases in Japan:
http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/feature/924/all
Still, even reading this, it makes no sense to me. Why is Japan the *only* country in the entire world with this problem? What is it here that sets it so far apart from every where else?