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How do movies made for children in Japan differ from those made for young American audiences?
One of my all time favorite movies with animals as main characters is Milo and Otis ... delightful story, and I really appreciate that they used narration to describe dialogue between characters instead of having them talking with their lips moving (when animals lips move while they speak human language in a movie, it wholeheartedly creeps me out and I can't get past it :-)
Anyway...I recently came across some deleted scenes from Milo and Otis ... these were scenes that were in the original Japanese version of the film, but cut when the movie was revised for American audiences. Seems like the Japanese were more inclined than American filmmakers to include morbid or otherwise dark subject matter in a movie geared towards small children. Is this generally true? Are there any other ways that movies made for children in Japan differ from those we make for child audiences in the USA?
Anyway...I recently came across some deleted scenes from Milo and Otis ... these were scenes that were in the original Japanese version of the film, but cut when the movie was revised for American audiences. Seems like the Japanese were more inclined than American filmmakers to include morbid or otherwise dark subject matter in a movie geared towards small children. Is this generally true? Are there any other ways that movies made for children in Japan differ from those we make for child audiences in the USA?
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