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Originally Posted by Jigster715
To be honest, Japanese AV companies are not very interested in licensing their content to foreigners. Some will, but they are not Japanese. Most likely Chinese or Korean. Probably 50% of the Japanese AV business is comprised of non-Japanese. In Japan, having a Japanese name does not make you Japanese.
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My experience is different, for me it went quite easy. When I was looking for Japanese content I contacted a Japanese affiliate that we had in our affiliate database and told him that we are interested in buying Japanese content and asked him if he could contact some studios for us. His English was not very good but good enough to get things going. He contacted several studios that were carrying the niche I was looking for (I was looking for a very specific niche) and a few of them were interested, and one of them was even willing to sell it uncensored. The affiliate set up various meetings for me and I flew to Tokyo where I stayed a couple of days and met with various studios and producers, from small to big and set up some deals. They took me to nice restaurants and clubs and showed me their offices etc. It was a very interesting experience, I was only like 25 at that time and many of the guys I met were like twice my age. On my first trip I already left with my first DV tapes with content I licenced (which was even including DVD rights outside Japan). In the beginning the affiliate always acted as my translator, but later when the Japanese guys I did deals with came to Europe we hired professional translators.