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Originally Posted by Jigster715
We work with and shoot for companies based in Japan. At this point, we mostly shoot for content destined for the censored, within Japan route. Shooting uncensored and trying to take it outside the country can get you jailed, banned from entering the country or both.
You can find companies who will do licenses for 1-5 years with a yearly sum paid in advance. These days licensing issues come about because Japanese companies are a bit worried about having too many overt connections to the uncensored world.
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From our experiences, only one company was a bit uneasy being shown on a site that also shows uncensored content. They told us that'd be fine if we didn't use their studio name though in the end we backed out since what they did already overlapped with another studio we work with.
I think as more Japanese AV companies look outward, they're becoming more inured to uncensored content--not in a production standpoint since it's illegal for them to do that, but in a "OK, we don't mind showing our content on sites that also have uncensored content" way.
"To be honest, Japanese AV companies are not very interested in licensing their content to foreigners."
I disagree somewhat here. All Japanese AV companies are interested in making money. Be it foreign or local, if the conditions are good, they'll go in. However, as you wrote and I also did earlier, the foreign side of the deal must seriously know Japanese business and the language well too. A foreign company emailing a studio out of the blue and lowballing with a royalty-free offer (since that's what mostly flies in the west it seems) will go nowhere. Many Japanese companies be it AV or mainstream are extremely risk-averse. They fear change and they fear the unknown so even a bit of uneasiness in spite if being offered a potentially good deal would end in a deal gone dead.
BTW, which censored studios do you shoot for?