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It took some time for Junichi Yasuda to appreciate that he had a winner on his arms. In August, the filmmaker’s low-budget function “A Samurai in Time” opened at a single theater in Tokyo. A comedy a couple of Nineteenth-century warrior who finds himself transported to present-day Japan, the film had been warmly acquired at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival the earlier month. Local audiences appeared to love it, too.
Yasuda’s cellphone was buzzing with messages, however he didn’t let that go to his head. When a screening offered out, he figured it was as a result of the solid and crew had been making a stage look, or as a result of tickets on the theater — Ikebukuro’s Cinema Rosa — had been discounted that day.
But the momentum saved constructing. In quick order, “A Samurai in Time” expanded to a second cinema, then to greater than 50. Film distributor Gaga stepped in to take cost of the theatrical rollout, and by October the film had damaged into the box-office high 10.
