Walt Disney movies in Japan?

Question:

Are those movies popular?

Here in The Netherlands people of my age think it's childish to watch such movies (anything that's animation is childish in their eyes) I don't really care about their opinion I watch them anyway..

But in Japan animation is very popular right? But they have so much anime, so do they also watch Walt Disney movies? Here everyone knows the old movies like Bambi and The Little Mermaid.
Do they also know them? If you compare anime and Disney to another, which is more popular?
I know they have a Disney theme park.. so that means that Japanese people at last know of Walt Disney movies right?

BTW another question: how popular is Manga/Anime. Here in the Netherlands there is a small amount of people who know about it. In the US it's pretty popular and in Japan itself? I don't really know. Does everyone read it and is it seen as normal? Or do some people also see it as childish like in my country?

Oh and they have Drama too right? I've watched a couple of those. I think they're better than the drama's we have in our country. How popular are those in Japan if you compare them to anime and manga?

What do you see in the cinema's? Anime or movies with real people? Can you also see Disney Movies or other animation movies like Despicable Me? Only Japanese movies or also those from America and such?

Thanks

PS: yeah I know.. a lot of questions!

Answer:

Disney movies are indeed popular in Japan.

In fact Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea are THE ONLY two theme parks NOT OWNED by Disney. A Japanese company owns both parks and licenses out disney characters. Most Japanese know of the famous Disney characters.

Manga and anime are two different things, manga might be more popular then anime, however NOT everyone watches or likes anime. I know many many Japanese people who do not watch it all the time.

Dramas are much much much much more popular then Anime, because Dramas reach and connect with a wider audience, just like dramas in many other places.

Again like dramas "movies with real people" are more mainstream and popular. You can see all types of movies in a Japanese cinema, anime, hollywood movies, Japanese movies, foreign movies, disney whatever is popular at the time.