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In Reply to: question: your favorite DVD commentaries? posted by tunenut on February 27, 2005 at 21:06:57:
he's the over-the-top Japanese director of such classics as Ichi The Killer, Visitor Q, Full Metal Yakuza, Audition and Fudoh.I watched FMY the other day and while it was a decent B film, the interview with Miike was simply worth the price of admission. He went through the whole process of making a movie during Japan's economic heyday in the '80s, when money was flying out of people's noses to more recent times.
He explained the way 'Original Videos' were formulated, produced, marketed and profits recooped. An Original Video in Japan is a movie that goes straight to the stores for rent or sale. It usually costs about 30m-40m Yen ($350k-$450k) to make and it's usually made in 2-3 weeks filming round the clock, so they can crank them out.
You basically go to the distributor for funding and not some film production company and if these distributors can 'sell' 10k-20k copies, a seemingly small amount, they're as happy as a pig in shit. He went on to say that when the money started drying up, many of these directors went to Video Game making or TV. He also mentioned that the Yakuza style film became somewhat 'cookie-cutter' and hence, people who didn't at least take chances going off the wall, stagnated and withered on the vine. He's all for a script as a minor guide, but he likes to adlib a lot of stuff right on the set. Ultimately, the Original Video people took the hit and things went into decline. It was a very educational interview for anybody interested in one aspect of foreign film making.
It was subtitled, but it was a great and educational 30 minute interview. There are other American commentaries that I have loved, the Peter Jackson ones from LOTRs were interesting and there have been others that I'm blanking on.
This was more an interview rather than an over the film step by step commentary, although he did answer specific questions regarding FMY in specific terms.
Take care, Chris
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- Takashi Miike... - Chris Garrett 11:32:36 02/28/05 (1)
- thanks - tunenut 12:31:20 02/28/05 (0)
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