| > battle royale was a B movie Yeah, if it's not an American movie, it's some cheap shit! /s My brother, it was nominated for nine Japanese Academy Awards, it was helmed by one of Japan's top directors, is an adaptation of a best-selling novel, is regarded by critics as one of the best films of the era, has high production values, stars arguably the most famous actor in Japan, was scored by a famous and prolific composer (you might have heard his music in another movie called Django Unchained), etc. That's not even getting into the economics of film in Japan. A successful film in Japan nowadays earns around $10M on a budget of half a million. BR, produced nearly twenty years ago, had a budget nearly ten times that much and grossed triple. Suffice it to say, Battle Royale is a high production cost movie, which forecloses the possibility of it being a B movie. and because I'm just some guy, https://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-ethics-of-making-ch... |
The best films I’ve ever watched, that which had the biggest effect on me, were TV-plays and self-funded documentary-films.