imo when it comes to east asian dramas (1) kdramas (2) cdramas (3) jdramas in terms of cinema it's (1) jcinema (2) kcinema (3) c-cinema
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I actually disagree when it comes to art cinema, in festival circuits Japan still has the prestige factor but Chinese art cinema has generally been recognized as producing significant work much more consistently for the past decade or so
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chinese dramas are better than most jdramas but japanese cinema tends to be much better than chinese cinema in my experience
aug 18, 2025, 10:11 pm • 17 0 • view
Japan certainly has the advantages of being one of the capital-G Great postwar cinema traditions, but yes TV outside of anime often is lacking.
aug 18, 2025, 10:13 pm • 13 0 • view
Now that I mention it, it's very strange how Japan has capital-G Great Cinema and capital-G Great Literature, but is just kinda eh on TV, especially when anime is not considered.
aug 18, 2025, 10:14 pm • 17 1 • view
my japanese grandmother was hooked on the samurai dramas
aug 18, 2025, 10:32 pm • 2 0 • view
i think a lot of it comes down to the tarento system
aug 18, 2025, 10:13 pm • 5 0 • view
being japanese conan shouldn't be what makes you a star
aug 18, 2025, 10:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Are we not counting annual NHK taiga here?
aug 18, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the generally recognized time horizon on c-cinema for a western audience is shorter than j-cinema (1960s versus 1930s), but people like Jia Zhangke and Hou Hsiao-Hsien go toe to toe with Kore-eda and Beat Takeshi imo
aug 18, 2025, 10:23 pm • 1 0 • view
Scarecrow video has a foreign cinema section and I have watched movies from it because i happened to see them on the shelf
aug 18, 2025, 11:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Hold on where we putting HK Cinema here
aug 18, 2025, 10:16 pm • 2 0 • view
1.5
aug 18, 2025, 10:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Fair
aug 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
(1)k-reality (2)j-reality .....is there even c-reality I don't even know.
aug 18, 2025, 10:35 pm • 2 0 • view
There is, it sucks ass
aug 18, 2025, 10:54 pm • 0 0 • view
lmao
aug 18, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
honestly nate i'm going to be real with you, i *dislike* the japanese variety shows immensely
aug 18, 2025, 10:36 pm • 5 0 • view
Aw heeeeeeeeell naw you didn’t just say THAT. (Having some sort of variety show on TV constantly in the background when I was a kid…is how I ended up with a super Japanese sense of humor even after many years outside it)
aug 18, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
i'm sorrrrrrrryyyyyyyyy (but there's only so many times you can see the same catchphrase being used by a tarento before going insane)
aug 18, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh I am explicitly excluding バラエティー番組 from the category of "reality." Any TV show that exists purely as a washed-up tarento work-study program is inevitably booooorrrriiiinngggg and has been so since at least the 1990s.
aug 18, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 1 • view
The shows that are basically Tamori/Sanma/Random SMAP member hosting the same rotating cast of tarento who are only famous for being on variety shows and nothing else are mind-numbingly dull. Oh, Debbie 夫人 is a recurring guest? PASS.
aug 18, 2025, 10:41 pm • 4 1 • view
Re: Asian vs. Western
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Russia is (0) in cinema but only chronologically, Broninosec Potjomkin is fucking terrible on its own merits
aug 18, 2025, 10:13 pm • 1 0 • view
i feel like kcinema has been stepping up lately but i honestly haven't been following jcinema in that time period.
aug 18, 2025, 10:12 pm • 6 0 • view
K-Cinema is definitely very very very good but unlike Japan South Korea doesn't have a long history of free expression and mass cultural consumption to earn the capital-G "Great" label, but I mean they're certainly making very fast progress towards it.
aug 18, 2025, 10:18 pm • 7 0 • view
yeah I mean definitely the best c-cinema (HK era, alas) and j-cinema of the past is above k-cinema, but the stuff I'm aware of lately (again, I'm probably missing stuff everywhere) is definitely tilting K-ward. yeah, not sure if it's Great yet, but we're definitely getting some good stuff.
aug 18, 2025, 10:21 pm • 5 0 • view