chinese dramas are better than most jdramas but japanese cinema tends to be much better than chinese cinema in my experience
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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