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...This scene from Bayside Shakedown 2, a Japanese cop drama debuting on July 19, is a terrific movie moment precisely because it's so charming and modest. But are charm and modesty the stuff of a box-office blockbuster? Chihiro Kameyama, producer of some of Japan's most memorable TV and film hits over the past 15 years, is banking on it. In a conference room high atop Fuji TV's futuristic Tokyo office building, he seems positively serene just days before the highest-profile movie release of his career. Kameyama predicts that Bayside Shakedown 2 will...
...Given the film's modest (by Hollywood standards) $8.5 million budget, Kameyama's lighthearted sequel would seem woefully overmatched by the summertime competition. But he's betting on an underdog formula that has worked magic before. Based on an 11-part TV series, the original Bayside Shakedown?which cost just $3 million to produce?premiered in 1998 and went on to become the most popular live-action Japanese movie in more than a decade. It ran in theaters for six months (most movies in Japan last about a month) and posted a box-office take of $84 million, becoming...
...should one suppose that these are dreaming connoisseurs who have just relinquished the ink block and the brush to dabble in the art of the namban, or round-eyed barbarian. Shigeki Kameyama, representing the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo, last week bought, among other things, Picasso's The Mirror at $26.4 million. The week before, he had also purchased De Kooning's Interchange at $20.68 million and a Brice Marden drawing at $500,000 at Sotheby's. Kameyama is known to other dealers as "Oddjob," after Goldfinger's hat-flinging chauffeur...
Getting down to organizing themselves, the delegates proved that they had already learned a good deal about the facts of democratic life. They adroitly outmaneuvered the inevitable leftist clique and elected their officers by pressure-proof secret balloting. Chemist Naoto Kameyama of Tokyo University was chosen president. Second vice president is world-famed Physicist Yoshio Nishina, who wept when U.S. soldiers demolished his cyclotron...