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Old 06-01-2009, 04:12 AM
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Seriously though, rousing applause for a movie is very atypical in Japan. Usually, as I've always understood it, outright approval for a movie is characterized by deafening silence.
So what is rousing applause indicative of? A bit of a cultural paradigm shift in Japan, perhaps?
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