The movie went over big in Japan in 2004. We thought it would be big in America in 2005. And it wasn't," she says. "But it wasn't big in Japan in 2005. We thought it would be big in America in 2005. And it wasn't."

They thought it would be big in Japan in 2005. And it wasn't.

That isn't to say no one was confused by the difference in mood in Japan and America. There were big budget movies in Japan