If you think of the words “amateur” or “amateurish”, it is not only a derogatory term, but it also defines a border between what is considered to be high art or successful versus what cannot attract audiences or does not meet popular tastes. The fact these tastes are, at least nowadays, defined by marketing people diagnosing what makes money now rather than what audiences might want or whether there is a niche somewhere no one has discovered yet. Within the Japanese film industry, not being associated with the studio system meant a stigma for many artists as they were labeled outsiders such as Seijun Suzuki, who was famously fired after “Branded to Kill”, now considered an avantgarde masterpiece, did not meet the expectations of the production company. Others like Nobuhiko Obayashi never really worked within the studio system and were seen as “amateurs”, a label the director never saw as an insult or a stigma,...
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