The Japanese office of United International Pictures will disband by the end of this year due to departures of major U.S. film studios from the London-based film distributor, UIP officials said Saturday.
United International Pictures Far East, based in Tokyo, has long dominated Japan’s foreign film market and chalked up some ¥40 billion in revenue in 1989.
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