The Concept Of This Page

Do you know that India produces the largest number of movies in the world? With advance of overseas Indians, Indian movies are exported to all parts of the world, such as Africa. But, almost nobody in Japan may have seen Indian movies. This is related to the fact that the Indian movies exported to Japan are "art films." In fact, only a part of movie fans or the people who are interested in India likely to go watch Indian movies.

Today the world movie market is under the control of Holliwood movie, an American amusement movie. However France give subsidy for its movie industry, the seventy percent of its domestic market is the works of Holliwood. It makes the situation in which art films, however crossed the border, could get only few supporters, as amusument movies only Hollywood could cross the border.

Concerning with media investment, it is explained as the advantage to get software, but is Asian software in such a condition?

Today, the problem of Asian movies are piled up so high: the problems at freedom of expression, economic and cultural problems, and the fact art movies are produced for European and American audience.

But, there are lot of things that should be affirmed. For example, Taiwan movies which have taken up history so far begin to tell its abundance. The universal movies with lively contents is appearing from Islamic world which is generally believed to be controled by strict control of culture.

Here we observe the movie as the problems of market and abundance to look for Asia. We hope that the way bisecting into art and amusement is old-fashoned and to break that way may be the field of Asia.

Would the Asian abundance guarantee the situation to produce the art movie director who could take the art movie for people and for his countrymen.


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