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"Our Daily Bread" sets house record |
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Written by Mark Schilling
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
TOKYO -- Nikolas Geyrhalter's "Our Daily Bread" has set a new house record at the Theater Image Forum
in Tokyo, theater officials have reported. Since opening on November
10, the 2005 German docu about food production in Europe racked up
25,000 admission in its first 14 weeks on release, for a total BO of
Y40 million ($388,350). The admissions and BO figures are both tops for
the eight-year-old venue. "Concerns about the Japanese food supply have
made this a very timely film," an Image Forum spokesman commented.
Headlines
about Chinese dumplings poisoned with pesticide, which sickened ten
Japanese last January and caused a diplomatic flap between Japan and
China over the safety of Chinese food products, have fueled interest in
the pic.
"Our Daily Bread" will play at Theater Image Forum
until the end of the month. It is on release on a total of 30 screens
around the country.
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