Today I explored postwar cinema! Badly!
So today I found out that on Facebook, c_for_cinephile "is trying to figure out the context of the post-World War II Japanese film industry. Anyone have any ideas?" Naturally, since I am full of all sorts of bad ideas, I wrote a really horrible version of postwar film.
Yes, this was supposed to be sort of satirical and sort of just stupid. Do not take any of this seriously. At all. If you do, I will assume you are very stupid.
The History of Postwar Cinema
as written by Takase Junta, Peppa Pig Seiyuu
Once upon a time there was a war. After the war, they decided to make movies because less people died shooting movies than shooting at each other. It was safer that way and all the blood was fake.
Lots of different directors threw their hats into the ring, but the most famous of these was undoubtedly Kurosawa Akira. People actually know his name outside of the country, so he must be important. Anyway, he teamed up with Mifune Toshiro frequently to kick cinematic ass samurai-style. It was pretty intense.
Animated films became more prominent, as well. There was a growing industry that eventually blossomed into full-length features, although it started with television. Before long animation was a massive, not growing, industry sucking money out of people who lived in their parents' basements. These people lived all over the world, so the industry was international. Today we call these lameasses otaku.
The otaku worship the films of Miyazaki Hayao, which are really quite good, so I do not blame them one bit. All of his films are very pretty and have entertaining plots, after all. Then Kon Satoshi came and decided to be creepy. But people like creepy, so he was allowed to stay.
To split the difference between animation and live-action film, someone invented tokusatsu, whihc I like to watch late at night because that makes it even funnier. In tokusatsu, people dress up in monster suits and destroy scale models of cities, then get fought off by other people in monster suits or people dressed up as superheroes. It is all kinds of awesome.
Sometimes, when these films are shown in other countries, instead of subtitles people dub them. In Italy, they are very good at this, but the same cannot be said about the company Animax, which made Akimaru of Musashino Daiichi sound like a five-year-old girl. Dubbing is fun to do, however, and I suggest it as a hobby for anyone who is as lame as me.
In short, film was very interesting. It still is, I think, so watching movies is probably a good idea. Yay popcorn!