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USC Film School’s Vice Dean Akira Mizuta Lippit On Reaction To ‘Oppenheimer’ In Japan & How Release Uncertainty Became Inseparable From Film’s Content; Then Box Office Surged – Guest Column
USC School of Cinematic Arts Vice Dean of Faculty Akira Mizuta Lippit shares his thoughts on the pre- and post-release reactions to Oppenheimer in Japan
Editor’s note: When Christopher Nolan ’s eventual Best Picture Oscar winner Oppenheimer began its global rollout last summer, a question mark hung over whether it would ever see the inside of a cinema in Japan, given the sensitive subject matter.Ultimately, the film released there eight months later, swiftly becoming the top-grossing Hollywood title of the year and continuing to hold that position (now at $11.6M). USC School of Cinematic Arts Vice Dean of Faculty Akira Mizuta Lippit has shared with Deadline his thoughts on the pre- and post-release reactions to the film in the market. Despite Nolan’s directorial majesty, Hoyte Van Hoytema’s exceptional cinematography, and the world’s most advanced VFX, the destruction of Japan by atomic weapons remains in the film and elsewhere unimaginable.
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