Chinese film, television, music

[Sardaukar20]

The reality is that the vast majority of Japanese people are fiercely non-political and don't care about history. The rest are mostly made up of Imperial Japan apologists, and Shinzo Abe was their hero. It's going to shape pretty much anything coming out of Japan about World War II.

The vast majority are actually passively apolitical. They won't bother about politics until they're forced to. When that happens, they tend to refer to what they learned in schools or the most influential voices.

There is also plenty of anti-war pacifists in Japan, but their voices are increasingly being suppressed by the media.

 

[4Tran]

The result of the Imperial remnants wiping clean of their atrocities from the history books. When your history is full of shit, of course you don’t want to know about them.

It's really hard to reconcile the directive of honoring your ancestors and actually acknowledging the crap they were up to. You can compare it to how it can be quite hard for Chinese people to talk about the history of the early 20th century because there's a lot of ugliness there. Another difference is that Chinese audiences love historical works and there's tons out there everywhere from the Zhou dynasty to the Qing one but Japanese audiences aren't into that kind of thing so they don't even have that as an outlet.

The vast majority are actually passively apolitical. They won't bother about politics until they're forced to. When that happens, they tend to refer to what they learned in schools or the most influential voices.

It's more that they don't want to examine what's happening politically. If they did, there might be real democracy in Japan, but as we all know, there's a reason why it doesn't exist.

There is also plenty of anti-war pacifists in Japan, but their voices are increasingly being suppressed by the media.

They don't drive around in vans with loudspeakers. These pacifist are vastly outnumbered and less influential than the fascists.

 

[uguduwa]

Did you watch any of the movies I mentioned? Plus I'm surprised you actually have that high of a standard for Chinese movies considering that I think you previously mentioned how Wolf Warriors 2 was a masterpiece and lamented how China doesn't make those kinds of movies anymore.

I think you're the only one with that opinion of the C-Drama industry. The last good C-Drama was Long Season, everything else after that has been half-assed crime dramas or that Xianxia crap that keeps getting made even if they always debut to 5.9 on Douban. All those movies I mentioned score 8 and above Douban, which is pretty unprecedented in the Chinese entertainment industry. It's literally been 2 years though, since a C-Drama has scored 8 and above on Douban. They're so bad nowadays that even scoring 7.5 is a miracle.

Long Season and Dead to Rights seem like worth giving a shot.

 

[uguduwa]

Well that is a bit judgemental.
What kind of race science bullshit is this?

The thing is, small OR big cultural exports are cultural exports nonetheless, they WORK.

My mum as of now has been watching CN drama on WeTV, does that mean my mother is somehow stupid and shallow based on your argument?

It‘s not race, just culture. I can‘t think of a single good movie made in South East Asia. In the meantime take a look at Iranian movie industry which pumps out diamonds every 2 years or so despite facing a lot of headwind. That‘s what you cal good movies that leave a footprint.

 

[vincent]

It‘s not race, just culture. I can‘t think of a single good movie made in South East Asia. In the meantime take a look at Iranian movie industry which pumps out diamonds every 2 years or so despite facing a lot of headwind. That‘s what you cal good movies that leave a footprint.

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