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TOKYO — It may have made him rich and a name in the industry outside his native Japan at the relatively tender age of 33, but director Takashi Shimizu believes that Hollywood’s current fondness for remakes may come back to haunt it.
"Hollywood is short of good ideas — across all the genres — and also reluctant to take a chance on a film because if it’s a flop, then they lose a lot of money and are hit hard by the critics," says Shimizu, who made his U.S. debut with "Grudge" in 2004, a (...)