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Showing much more footage and more dramatic footage, the Japanese shows once again how devoted their film community is to the story elements of their cinema and not just flashy cuts that draw attention, like we’re used to in America.  By no means am I knocking the America trailer creating community, I think some of the greatest film art of the past 10 years have been in trailer form, but this trailer just shows how precise the Japanese care about story elements instead of big explosions and fast cuts.

The trailer above is cut beautifully to expose much more footage than previous trailer incarnations we’ve seen.  We see a story that previous trailers have left out.   This feels more like a chunk of the book we’ve all come to love.

While some trailers are designed well, and others fall short of anything note-worthy, the job of a trailer is to get people in those theater seats.   And as much as I have loved the America trailer sets, this one trumps the deck in my opinion.

What other foreign trailers of American films have you seen?  Good or bad?