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Brad Balfour: Japanese Film Departures--Winner of 2009's Foreign Film Oscar--Illuminates Asian Rituals of Death 
Huffington Post | by Brad Balfour | Wed, Jun 3
Wed, Jun 3
It had a very sizeable Japanese audience before the Academy Award but the box office has more than doubled [to over $60 million] after the Academy Award, yet there's a part of me that wishes it wouldn't take an Academy Award for it to get that big.
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