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June 05, 2006
LESS YOUNG PEOPLE SPEND MORE MONEY TO SEE MATSUKO
MEMORIES OF MATSUKO, the depressive song and dance film from Tetsuya Nakashima (KAMIKAZE GIRLS) which has been described as "a shojo manga CITIZEN KANE," held the fourth place spot at the Japanese box office this past weekend, beaten by Ken Watanabe's low budget Alzheimer's drama, MEMORIES OF TOMORROW. But that's only when you look at attendance figures. Since MEMORIES OF TOMORROW is aimed at the over-50 crowd, many of the tickets it sells are at the senior citizen rate and so MEMORIES OF MATSUKO actually made more money.
But it's the people that matter, man, not their money. And so MEMORIES OF TOMORROW is in third, and MEMORIES OF MATSUKO is in fourth.
(Read the Japan Times review of MEMORIES OF MATSUKO)
June 5, 2006 at 03:56 PM in News | Permalink
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