Thoughts on the Netflix Series The Naked Director
Some historic and cultural background on the Netflix series The Naked Director, which is based on a true story of the late 1970s-1980s in Japan. Warning: contains some spoilers.
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The Yoshimoto Kogyo Scandal and the Japanese Entertainment Industry
In a very eventful week, the news that dominated the headlines and on-air news programs even more than the Kyoto Animation studio arson tragedy or the House of Councillors election, was the firing of a comedian/TV show host called Hiroyuki Miyasako by his management agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo. It exposed a host of problematic issues with the Japanese entertainment industry.