HungFist wrote:The fansubbing was a very cool thing some 5-7 years ago, when people were giving srt's to folks who had bought the disc... I did that too, but gave up after I found my subs attached to torrents...
I'm not gonna go moralist here... especially with J-films for people located outside Japan usually the only legal alternative is burn $60 on an unsubbed disc that no one has reviewed and you'll have hell of a trouble selling if it turns out to be less than a great movie... If you occasionally "preview" a film with the intention to purchase it if you like it, I can't really blame you...
Still, the fansubbing has taken a bit sad turn, with worst case scenarios where subbers refuse to hand out srt's to people who bought the disc as they want to promote their own torrent. Thankfully, there's still a lot of people who, on torrent sites too, do give you the srt if you ask polititely...
As for Hiroki, I really liked Kimi no tomodachi too. But my favorite is easily It's Only Talk. As for the rest of his films, I almost always find them interesting but flawed... most tend to fall in the *** category (Vibrator, Love on Sunday, Girlfriend, Tokyo Trash Girl...)
Oh, btw, River was just announced in the NC line up.
yeah, i'd expected keibetsu to be bypassed somewhat in favour of river. subject matter plays a part, but the timing of a festival in relation to it's J release is a bigger issue - different companies resist for different (but typically odd) reasons, from what i hear and sense.
personally, i've tried to put a lot of effort into keeping track of info as to what's out there in japan, and have shared it in different ways over the years. oddly, this has only ever led to me having one or two contacts who might facilitate me seeing some films that won't get a release, at least not for a while. people don't come forwards and i don't know where / if i can step forwards to make contacts. therefore, i'm predominantly waiting for NYAFF and JC line-ups.
never worked out how that whole screener thing works, and never found out why people don't reach out in hope of accessing information or creating some kind of network of efforts and reward for those that are self-motivated or in some way apparently capable - mainly because I've never been directly told anything more than few times than anything i've tried to do has proven even slightly useful.
there are films i have hopes for, film's i'd say were typical of NYAFF and JC, but I don't find out what's there until everyone else does, and i don't know what i will get to see until it arrives a few weeks down the line. did make a point of mentioning keibetsu as one of the better-looking from last year though.
