Tsutaya: Cinema Handbook 2007
Tsutaya hands out an annual handbook with descriptions, rankings, and pictures of their rental DVD. It's nice. There is a chapter for every genre (Drama, Love Story, Comedy, Musical, Classic, Literary, Documentary, Mystery, Action, SF, Horror, Asia, TV drama), each with an Editor's choice, several top tens, and a long ranking compiled from customer's recommendations. For every title, there is a picture of the DVD cover, a plot summary, topical icons, a checkbox for you to tick off, information about cast, crew, runtime, languages, picture and audio formats and so on.
Here are my coverage ratios for the top tens:
- Drama: 20%
- Love Story: 80%
- Comedy: 60%
- Musical: 40%
- Classic: 40%
- Literary: 70%
- Documentary: 20%
- Mystery: 20%
- Action: 60%
- SF: 90%
- Horror: 10%
- Asia: 0%
- TV drama: 20%
- Social: 20%
There is also
a funny little mix-up with the original movie titles. The following
films are all listed as Clear and Present Danger
:
- For Love of the Game
- Seven Chances
- Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
- Runaway Jury
- Air Force One
- Miller's Crossing
- The Island



