{"id":12809,"date":"2008-06-02T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2008-06-02T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T14:37:09","slug":"tartan-films-usa-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/tartan-films-usa-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tartan Films USA Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.varietyasiaonline.com\/kaijushakedown\/TARTAN-CLOSED\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tartanfilmsusa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tartan Films USA<\/a> has closed and all of the company&#8217;s American assets, including its physical property and its catalog of 101 films, are being sold.  Tartan Films USA was formerly the American distributor of noteable Japanese films including Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s <em>Doppelganger<\/em>, Koji Shiraishi&#8217;s <em>Carved<\/em>, Yoji Yamada&#8217;s <em>The Hidden Blade<\/em>, Takeshi Shimizu&#8217;s <em>Marebito<\/em>, Shinya Tsukamoto&#8217;s <em>Tetsuo<\/em>, <em>Vital<\/em>, and <em>A Snake of June<\/em>, and Park Chan-wook&#8217;s Korean adaptation of the manga <em>Oldboy<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Tartan Film&#8217;s UK branch is still active.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/site\/view\/sad-news-tartan-us-closes-its-doors\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety Magazine has reported that Tartan Films USA has closed and all of the company&#8217;s American assets, including its physical property and its catalog of 101 films, are being sold. Tartan Films USA was formerly the American distributor of noteable Japanese films including Kiyoshi Kurosawa&#8217;s Doppelganger, Koji Shiraishi&#8217;s Carved, Yoji Yamada&#8217;s The Hidden Blade, Takeshi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-topic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}