Shinichiro Watanabe - After I began in elementary school, I was abl

After I began in elementary school, I was able to go to the movies, and that was how I would spend my weekends, watching several movies one after another and almost all of them American movies. This is how I fell in love, at so young an age, with American movies and culture.

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Watanabe, Shinichiro. Keynote Address. Otakon, 9 Aug. 2013, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD.

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