About 100 anti-Japan films and nearly 70 TV programs were produced in 2013, according to Reuters, which estimates that the genre holds as much as 70 percent of the market. Despite waning viewer interest, the new season promises much more of the same. Anti-Japanese feelings are being stoked by the Government censors who control which programming gets approval to air and what doesnt. As the article points out, film and television producers are simply responding to their environment - what is the point in taking a risk on material that may be rejected, in which case the money you invested goes to waste? Such is the reality of state-controlled media industry: Producers pump out dramas that pay lip service to the party line in return for easy green-lighting and distribution deals. Meanwhile, relations between China and Japan are at their lowest point since World War II with a majority of Chinese citizens expecting a war with Japan in the coming years.
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 01:02:33 +0000
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