‘Pacific Rim’ Fails to Wow Japanese Audiences

[aye_no_jinsei]

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[45s]

I wouldn't expect a foreign kaiju-esque film to do well in the country that invented it... Plus, they are still making Godzilla movies in 2k13. This lukewarm reception was expected.

Also wwz was awful lol. Oof

[circe89]

America is still making Godzilla movies, Japan's sick of them.

[eevaleena]

Dang. I post the wrong comment at the wrong place ^^; Sorry. But anyways, I'm not surprised that the movie didn't do well in Japan. It's expected.

[nyankee]

Japanese audiences are not overly fond of Rinko, so I didn't really expect it to do phenomenally.

I loved Pacific Rim, though, so thank goodness for its box office success in China. I'm glad it's making money.

[vanillasalt]

Japanese audiences are not overly fond of Rinko

aw, they're not? how come?

[nyankee]

Rinko is unpopular in Japan because she takes on "unappealing" sorts of roles, not because she lacks skill or talent. She was wonderful in Liar Game (a personal favourite of mine) but very distinctly not a very likeable character, a role for which actresses in Japan sometimes suffer. She was also simply incredible in Babel but the nudity seemed "unsavory" to a great deal of the film's Japanese audience and that doomed her (unfairly) as well. Japanese audiences (particularly the very vocal Internet-dwelling community of them) tend to judge an actress (and even an actor, sometimes, though markedly less so) based on the kinds of roles they take on and how easily/naturally it seems to come to them on-screen. Because Rinko has a ton of talent and seems like a natural, but takes on these sorts of roles, people don't like her.

Which is a shame, because she's absolutely adorable and (again) incredibly talented and deserves all the fame she wants.

[circe89]

Hasn't Mana disappeared from the spotlight for awhile anyway? Last year she was everywhere, this year I've barely heard about her.

[ilovekat_tun]

Maybe it's exactly because it's a genre the Japanese created themselves so it didn't do well..

[vickyblueeyez]

I really loved this film. :(