Why are foreign films or foreign music not available in America?

Question

Are all countries like this? Because in countries like Japan and South Korea, they know who many of the most popular American actors/singers are because they get some American movies there. Toy Story 3 and pretty much every other pixar and pretty much all Disney films are distributed in those countries and probably all most all European countries as well. All we have here is Hayao Miyazaki's movies as foreign films from Japan.
I never ever see any cd's by German or Japanese bands in American stores like bestbuy, etc. In Japan Lady Gaga and Britney Spears have tours there, while actors like Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp go there for film premiers. Ask an American to name a Japanese singer or actor and the best they would be able to guess is "Jackie Chan".

My Japanese penpals tell me about really good Japanese movies they see and I would like to watch them too. But of course, they will never be available for purchase except on the internet for really high prices. It's not fair that other countries seem to get imports of movies and cd's from America, but we get no imports of movies and cd's from other countries!

Answer 1

one of the reason why you won't find any japanese cd and dvd in store is one because the demand from costumers is not enough high for the store to start importing them .

second because cds and dvds in japan cost a lot more than US . here we can buy cds for 8$-11$ in japan a brand new cd cost about 36$-45$ , a dvd in us cost 5$-10$ , in japan about 30$ so you can imagine it would be impossible for the us stor to sell them for the same as US price , also they would have to pay for shipping and costums . in the end the cds will cost you 55$-60$ +tax (depending of your state )

the shipping japan to US can be really expensive , especially fast shipping .it can go between 7 $to 15$ for just one cd .

add to that fact that the yens is strong comapre to the us dollars and a store who buy from japan would loose money with the change . that why you will find a lot of american stuff in japan but not a lot of japanese stuff in US .



for asian movie , i got netflix to watch them online , they have a bunch of chinese and japanese movies.

blockbuster have a small selection of only the most famous movies....



the best way to buy japanese cds and dvds is to buy them online . i buy all mines from http://myjpop.com/jpop-myjpop-japanese-music.html ( the cd are a lot cheapper than what you would buy them for in japan and its all authentic ). they ship from US so shipping is not too expensive . i have order from them a couple times and always got my cds within 2 days .



if you are interrested in japanese music they also have a facebook you can joinhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/MY-JPOP-COM/124191400953715 (this is actually how i found out about them)

Answer 2

I personally love Asian and foreign music. I'm sure they're are asian musicians like the ones you are looking for. Sometimes its really not that different then American music, or any other foreign music I listen to. Asia is actually bigger than America, so I'm pretty sure they have tons of different styles of music. To me its not all that bad, and since when I listen to foreign music I don't understand exactly what they say, so I focus on the melody.

Answer 3

not quite true...I have bought nice little collection of asian movies that were on sale at my local blockbuster. Sometimes video stores in a mall may have foreign movies that you can buy.. I have bought a few myself. if you have cable ( and who doesnt really?) sometimes Sundance channel shows foreign movies. I get a free version of Sundance ( there is a paid version also) and just last month they showed a bunch of asian movies...mostly Korean...but a few Japanese and like 1 Cantonese ( Chinese)



as far as music....ur better bet is to get it online. unless you can find a music store that specializes in foreign music.



btw....I know of a pretty decent deal of japanese singers...because I happen to love japanese music :) besides...Jackie Chan is Chinese :P





I'm not sure really what kind of japanese music you like..but if you like Jrock/visual kei a good site to get music is http://jrockvisualkei.com

Answer 4

If we did that, then you'd know half of American films are rip-offs of foreign films. Take the 'new' film "Let Me In" for example, which is a rip-off of the Swedish film "Let the Right One In." .. or "Quarantine" which was a rip-off of the Spanish film "REC." Plenty more where that came from.

Answer 5

Because the American government is stupid. Yes, we're the only country like this.

Answer 6

I find much music and film from world at place name international market. You find France, India,Ethiopia, all nationals. They have all things like suits and food.

Answer 7

Do you even know who runs Hollywood?



This video alone will answer your whole question.