>>213875537Yeah, obviously some gems kept getting made but man, the fall off is hard and fast. And Japan had a whole generation of directors doing really good stuff from the 1930s to the 60s and 70s. And then it's suddenly like they forgot how to make good, serious movies.
I know why Hong Kong cinema fell off a cliff (piracy really fucked them, brain drain around the time of the Handover, AFC fucking the regional markets they dominated, Hollywood starting to muscle in more seriously in Asian markets too, etc) but I still don't know what was up with Japan.