Japanese Cinema review

Before we were taught about Japanese cinema i had never paid any attention to any other countries film cinema, i was reasonably ignorant to it. The only ideas i had before i watched any, was that i thought it was not going to appeal to me at all and i would not choose to watch it. Whereas since we started watching it i have a completely different opinion of it. Japanese women are more out spoken than i thought they were, i thought that they were told what to do rather than being able to give their own opinion.
My neighbour detoro was an ideal example of this, because the mother was in hospital throughout the film but she was being treated like a human being. Whereas before then i thought that women were a lot more looked down upon than men and they were beaten up quite a lot to get them to do things.
I previously thought i would really dislike having to read through the subtitles whereas i didn't find it as bad as i thought. I was able to keep up with the film whilst watching it and following the story.
In the future if a Japanese film was on i think i wouldn't necessarily be as quick to change it over, i would give it a chance and probably end up enjoying it. I am going into Japanese magazine and television with a much more open mind, which i should have done with cinema as well.