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Most movies make it to Japan, and the Japanese entertainment media is very kind to Western movies that flopped state-side. Indy movies make it to Japan too. The semi-pornographic "Brown Bunny" was a flop at Cannes (I think) and never got an American release, but was a minor hit in Japan. Japanese are pretty cinema-saavy with a long film-making tradition of their own, and movies big and small get releases.