Murgatroyd
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As the others have shown, it's not quite what you'd expect by the bread description. The Japanese word "pan" (pronounced sorta like "pahn") is a bit more encompassing, and includes a variety of filled buns or pastries as well as the traditional loafs you might expect. They're usually filled with a sweet paste, custard, or cream, but it can be savory. The full name will usually include a description of what's inside. Anpan for red bean paste. Kuripan for curry filling (I think, at least. My Japanese is really rusty and was never comprehensive.)
I can't quite read the labels of those images, so I'm not sure what flavor Anna and Elsa have.
I may need to check out Uwajimaya to see if they're available there.
Anna's filling is chocolate cream and "milk whip", which I've never heard of before but I assume is a relative of whipped cream.
Elsa's is raspberry jam and milk whip.
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Let me guess... they are complaining about the high price?
And about Amazon's failure to deliver on release day.
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1: The Boxtrolls
2: Song of the Sea
3: Inside Out
4: Big Hero 6
5: Guardians of the Galaxy
6: Interstellar
7: Mockingjay Part 1
8: Avengers Age of Ultron
9: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
10: Annie
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haha... also there is going to be so much shipping... i mean the number of possible pairings with a main cast of six is pretty large (30 if my math skills dont deceive me...)
You forgot to divide by 2, assuming that pairing AB is the same as pairing BA. If you allow for one-sided attraction, things get a bit more complicated.
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I think I've found a useful way to look at this. A famous bit of writing advice (from Kurt Vonnegut, IIRC) is that 'every character should want something, even if it's only a glass of water.' So, when considering a female character, ask yourself, what does she want?
It gets tiring seeing Shallow Love Interests who want to marry The Hero, and Damsels In Distress who want to be rescued by The Hero, and women who want to support The Hero, and women who want to help The Hero realize his true strength/destiny/whatever, and so on. We need more female characters whose driving desire does not revolve around The Hero.
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Frozen Japan vs Titanic US comparison chart? I like that one.
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And it has finally fallen from #1 in Japan, dethroned by another Disney movie.
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1: The Boxtrolls
2: Song of the Sea
3: Inside Out
4: Big Hero 6
5: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6: Guardians of the Galaxy
7: Interstellar
8: Mockingjay Part 1
9: Avengers Age of Ultron
10: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Isn't Godzilla a Japanese icon or part of culture? Doesn't that guarantee a big Japan opening (and drop like a rock afterwards as they'll be disappointed, just like in every market lol)? I just hope Maleficent will still go strong despite Godzilla.
The thing to remember is that Japanese audiences loved movies about giant monsters… 50 years ago.
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Domestic takes for both actors. Tom 5.3 billion > > > > > Ang 2.3 billion. Literally more than twice without having to rely on animated movies and ensemble casts ROFFFFLL
For some perspective, here are their careers, omitting limited releases and voices in animated films:
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I think people miss the point entirely here. A woman always acts as a way to support or provide progress to a male protagonist's story because EVERY character in a story should be supporting, providing progress, or being an obstacle to the main character. Any side character who fails to do this has no place in the story.
This is true from a storytelling perspective. However, when it appears that in-universe, she only exists in relation to him, then we have a problem.
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Well, at least there's that. It may not beat DH2WW (though it would be awesome for it to by some miracle), but it still has a chance of beating SA?
Not unless it gets a big boost at some point. This means it still has a chance of beating Titanic.
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1: The Boxtrolls
2: Song of the Sea
3: Inside Out
4: Big Hero 6
5: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6: Guardians of the Galaxy
7: Interstellar
8: Mockingjay Part 1
9: Avengers Age of Ultron
10: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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That's weird. I checked wiki for Japans top 20 movies and they had spirited away at 230m a week ago but they have it at 300m now and titanic at 258m. The fuck wiki?
Exchange rates. At the time of SA's theatrical run, its 30.4B yen was worth about 230M dollars. At today's exchange rate, the same 30.4B yen is about 300M dollars, and Titanic's 26.2B is 258M.
And this is why you shouldn't consider Wikipedia to be anything more than a starting point for real research.
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Relative to population, definitely. In dollars, it's the sixth-worst.
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Screendaily:
[…]The film has just over one more week as the sole studio family animation in the marketplace before Relativity’s animation Earth To Echo opens on July 4.[…]
They have a very strange definition of "animation" here.
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The video announcement can explain some loss of the audience, but isn't the solitary reason. Simple passage of time will explain more. For the specific weekends that were depressed, we also had the sports days. If you look at the chart of weekly (rather than weekend) grosses, the decline is more modest: business shifted around, but it's still chugging along.
Yes. Even movies with great legs start to drop eventually.
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Are they still showing other movies in Japan?
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You can put it on as long as it's expected to be released in 2014 and is at least filming or further into production according to IMDB (they tend to be pretty accurate regarding production status). I did used to be more strict about it, but I came to realize this is what happens with most of the Oscar bait so there's no point waiting that long.
Good to know. In that case, here's the list:
1: The Boxtrolls
2: Song of the Sea
3: Inside Out
4: Big Hero 6
5: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
6: Guardians of the Galaxy
7: Interstellar
8: Mockingjay Part 1
9: Avengers Age of Ultron
10: Transformers: Age of Extinction
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The Sixth Sense vs. Ghostbusters
Star Wars vs. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers vs. The Jungle Book
Back to the Future vs. The Dark Knight
Titanic vs. Independence Day
The Ten Commandments vs. The Avengers
Jaws vs. Pinocchio
Doctor Zhivago vs. Mary Poppins
The Exorcist vs. Forrest Gump
Spider-Man 2 vs. The Godfather
101 Dalmatians vs. Fantasia
The Empire Strikes Back vs. The Graduate
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King vs. Raiders of the Lost Ark
Avatar vs. The Sting
Return of the Jedi vs. The Lion King
Jurassic Park vs. Bambi
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if you take a look at google earth at Haiti and the The Dominican republic where the fence is that divides the island. Lush green to the east of the fence. 150 years ago, a TDR dictator heard about japan and made sure the jungle stayed intact w selective cutting. Haiti clear cut. Today TDR thrives and Haiti is a freaking mess.
To be fair, that's far from the only difference between the two, and is more an effect of Haiti's troubles than a cause. You can't save for the future when you're already starving in the present. (Short synopsis of Haiti's history: everything a colonial power can do to screw over an ex-colony was done to Haiti.)
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Lego is currently ahead by about $60,000.
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JAPAN BOX OFFICE | Demon Slayer breaks all time record for OW
in International Box Office
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If it's anything like the other anime seasons-converted-to-movies I've encountered, it'll be reanimated from scratch with much higher production values than the TV version. They'll tighten the whole thing up into a single two-hour story arc, probably cutting several minor subplots entirely, and possibly making a few major changes.
Or let him actually make some progress toward his long term goal, rather than sending him to a new region again, starting with a whole new bunch of pokemon again, meeting new traveling companions again, and being a seemingly inexperienced newbie with no clue about the basics again.