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...grams, produced in Hokkaido, the center of Japan's milk industry. Instead, they are confronted with an abundance of French butter, costing upwards of 2,000 yen ($20) for 200 grams. "Even if we order 100 or 200 packages of domestic butter," says Nissin's dairy buyer Katsuhiro Maruyama, "only about six or so actually get delivered - if any at all." Some stores with a limited supply have already started rationing one domestic butter product per customer, because shipments are erratic at best. Needless to say, margarine sales have gone up and stores without domestically produced butter have posted signs...
...late 1700s and whose portrait is among the shown works. He commissioned not just Jakuchu's flowers but also the fine mid-Edo-style door screens in the building's more public areas, where the priest would receive guests. Painted in the late 18th century by Okyo Maruyama, each screen has a different theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward a more lifelike presentation. His simple brushwork and relatively muted color palate harken back to previous eras, but these screens, especially the one depicting...
...refusal to accept the conventional boundaries of his field that encouraged Masao Maruyama, founder and president of Mad House animation studio, to choose him to direct Perfect Blue, a paranoid psycho-thriller about a teen idol dragged through the sleazier realms of Japanese pop culture. The film turned out to be Kon's breakthrough. Until then, he had been making slow but steady progress through the industry, working his way up from being an assistant manga artist to drawing his own manga to directing occasional episodes of animated TV shows. One of these episodes caught Maruyama's eye. "I needed...
...growing virtuosity inevitably raises his second least favorite question: Can he become the next Hayao Miyazaki, whose Spirited Away was a global hit last year and which picked up an Oscar for Best Animated Film? Dream-Works' Daly believes he can; so does Maruyama. But ask Kon if he wants to follow in the footsteps of the reigning emperor of anim?, and after a moment of offended silence he starts to wave his hand violently in front of him as if warding off a curse. "I've never even thought about it," he insists, a little unconvincingly...
...Twin Peaks for Japanese animation, bringing Kon's work to a wider audience and raising the standards of prime-time TV in the process. "We're going to let him keep doing what he wants, and I think the audiences will eventually come to him," says Mad House president Maruyama. That may finally be about to happen. Millennium Actress and Tokyo Godfathers made the release-date cutoff for this season's Oscars, and industry insiders are whispering that both films might be top contenders. That would bring Kon much deserved recognition and show that his brand of animation...