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need to be less abstract and refer to actual transactions, be more detailed, and better known to the public.” 8 Again, there is criticism, but no crucial action has been taken. Regarding the relationship between distributors and exhibitors, 20th Century Fox Japan was warned by the FTC in 2003 about forcing exhibitors to keep admission fees high, as deliberate price maintenance is not approved for film admission in Japan 9 . The market price of film is relatively high compared with major foreign countries including UK, and the FTC is sensitive about the high price level. (3) The stance of the Japanese government on WTO and UNESCO Japan is a member of the WTO and has agreed to the basic concept of free trade. In 2005, Japan also agreed to UNESCO’s Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expression. Although Japan’s stance on the WTO (particularly GATT article 20 th , cultural exception) is not as radical as France or US, in its formal statement Japan is closer to the US. The Japanese Ministry of Finance, METI (Ministry of Economics, Trade and Industry) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are primarily in charge of WTO matters. Among the four modes 10 of service trade that GATS defines, Japan promises not to restrict free trade (“NONE” in table2-3-1) except for mode 4 (presence of natural persons), a stance that is close to U.S. Within the framework of the WTO, Japan also joined TRIPS in 1994. The EU and US requested Japan to revise Japanese copyright law in 1996. Mutual agreements were made in 1997. 8 METI(2002), The subjects and actions for the competition policy on content distribution (in Japanese documents). 9 Six items are approved to use deliberately keep prices. (Newspaper, book, magazine and journal, record disk, music tape, music CD) 10 Mode of supply: 1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons 104
Table 2-3-1 Revised offer by the Japanese government on WTO regarding service trade (GATS) (offered on 24 June 2005) Sector Limitations on market access Limitations on national treatment a) Motion picture and video tape production distribution and services (9611) b) Motion picture projection services (9612) e) Sound recording services 1) None 2) None 3) None 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 1) Unbound Unbound None 2) None 3) None 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 1) None 2) None 3) None 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 105 1) None 2) None 3) None except as indicated in HORIZONTALCOMMITMENTS 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 1) Unbound* Unbound None 2) None 3) None except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS 1) None 2) None 3) None except as indicated in HORIZONTALCOMMITMENTS 4) Unbound except as indicated in HORIZONTAL COMMITMENTS “Abc” means one revised from former stance Mode of supply: 1) Cross-border supply 2) Consumption abroad 3) Commercial presence 4) Presence of natural persons * Unbound due to lack of technical feasibility. The ACA (Agency of Cultural Affairs) takes charge of UNESCO matters. Before the agreement on the Convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions in UNESCO general conference in 2005, ACA summarised their stance as below 11 . For the cultural promotion and protection as domestic policies 11 ACA (2004), The basic stance for cultural diversities; A report of working group about cultural diversity , p11.
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The Japanese Market for UK Films No
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CONTENTS Executive Summary Part One
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of Japanese earnings.) The Japanese
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2. UK FILM MARKETPLACE Records show
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Part One The Japanese Market 9
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Fig 1-1-2 Film releases - Japanese
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illion yen (around US$90m). There w
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Cinema admission fees Cinema admiss
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more multiplexes have opened but to
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this date is usually agreed through
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Once a movie is given the green lig
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(6) Multiplex booking pattern 1) Or
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1-3 Art House Theatres in Tokyo In
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Table 1-4-1 List of Digital Cinema
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According to the web site of D-Cine
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- Management of Digital Cinema scre
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to have planned 10,000 mobile digit
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ecause they were too busy taking ca
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1-6 The Current Print and Advertisi
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Independently owned theatres have b
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1-7 Titles Released, by Country of
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(2) Foreign film releases in 2006 c
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1-8 The Rise of Asian Markets and C
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U.S $(million) 1200 1000 800 600 40
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most popular stars including Bae Yo
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Both films became record-breaking h
Page 53 and 54: 2003 $30,979,000 +107% $13,893,000
Page 55 and 56: 1-9 TV, DVD, VOD and Other Media (1
Page 57 and 58: NHK is the public broadcaster in Ja
Page 59 and 60: 17 26,1% Spirited Away 2004・12・
Page 61 and 62: Other BS Channels (Sister Channels
Page 63 and 64: Network Japanese imported Sum. Tabl
Page 65 and 66: Table1-9-5 List of major cinema cha
Page 67 and 68: (5) Cable Television Japanese cable
Page 69 and 70: Discovery Channel & Discovery Chann
Page 71 and 72: NTT GROUP NTT group has 3 IP multic
Page 73 and 74: Fig 1-9-3 Broadband Content (Genre
Page 75 and 76: Broadband Market Size From the char
Page 77 and 78: 65% 20% Fig 1-9-6 DVD PURCHASE 6% 3
Page 79 and 80: Genre Lifestyle, Travel Play, Comed
Page 81 and 82: Source: Japan Video Software Associ
Page 83 and 84: 43% Fig 1-9-9 DVD RENTAL Expenditur
Page 85 and 86: In 2006 a number portability system
Page 87 and 88: Part Two The UK Film Marketplace in
Page 89 and 90: Table 2-1- 2 UK films released in J
Page 91 and 92: Table 2-1- 4 UK films released in J
Page 93 and 94: Fig.2-2-1 The Number of films distr
Page 95 and 96: In term of efficiency (average BOR
Page 97 and 98: (Company) Fig.2-2-4 The Number of U
Page 99 and 100: Fig.2-2-6 Number of DVD titles by d
Page 101 and 102: 2-3 Institutional regulation and An
Page 103: The rating of films is conducted by
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Page 109 and 110: 2-4 The Market for UK Independents
Page 111 and 112: Fig 2-4-2 UK film market share in B
Page 113 and 114: Fig 2-4-5 UK film market share in D
Page 115 and 116: *Drama(1) 24 HEURES DE LA VIE D'UNE
Page 117 and 118: *Adventure *SF ALEXANDER AROUND THE
Page 119 and 120: (6) Titles based on well known orig
Page 121 and 122: (3) Details of proposals a) UK Film
Page 123 and 124: market was expanding more rapidly,
Page 125 and 126: Table 2-9-1 The perception of the U
Page 127 and 128: Table 2-9-2 TV Programme Imports in
Page 129 and 130: Appendix 129
Page 131 and 132: Association List 2-5 Japan Film Mak
Page 133 and 134: Association List 4-5 Japan Audio-Vi
Page 135 and 136: A-2 Distributors List Distributor L
Page 137 and 138: Distributor List 3-8 Desperado Inc.
Page 139 and 140: Distributor List 5-8 Nikkatsu Corpo
Page 141 and 142: Distributor List 7-8 SYNERGY 3rd Fl
Page 143: A-3 Exhibitors List TOHO cinemas Wa
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