I know that comparisons are usually weak, but I can only feel healthy envy of Japanese Cinema (and its audience) when I see that in Spain Spanish Cinema shares only 14 % and the rest is for foreign cinema (predominantly<b> </b>from USA).<br>
<br>May be in some other life..., japanese reborn.<br><br>Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano<br>Profesor titular<br>Universidad Rey Juan Carlos<br>Ciencias de la Comunicación<br>Madrid, España.<br><a href="http://www.urjc.es">www.urjc.es</a><br>
<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/31, Aaron Gerow <<a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Just a quick note, but the Motion Picture Producers Association of<br>Japan released their statistics for the film industry for 2007.<br><br><a href="http://www.eiren.org/toukei/index.html">http://www.eiren.org/toukei/index.html</a><br>
<br>The results are not great, but not bad either. Total box office went<br>down 2.2% to 198 billion yen, with attendance declining 0.8% to 163<br>million. Japanese films failed to beat out foreign films at the box<br>office, unlike last year (which was the first time that had been done<br>
since 1985). The share was 47.7% for Japanese and 52.3% for foreign<br>films. The box office for Japanese films fell 12.3% from 2006. The<br>number of films slightly declined, as did the average ticket price,<br>while the number of screens continues to increase.<br>
<br>15 Japanese films earned more than 2 billion yen at the BO, the same<br>number as 2006. Of the top 11 films, 10 were distributed by Toho,<br>with Hero, Pocket Monsters, Always II, Saiyuki, and Bushi no ichibun<br>being the 5 to top 4 billion. The fact that business as a whole is<br>
not consistently growing, that the average BO per screen continues to<br>decline, and that Toho retains its almost monopolistic dominance, are<br>all signs for concern.<br><br>But then again, Japanese cinema's take of 94 billion yen is the<br>
second best this decade, indicating that 2006 was not a total fluke.<br>It is also a respectable number going against Pirates of the<br>Caribbean, Harry Potter, and Spiderman. 47.7% was also the second<br>best figure since 1988.<br>
<br>Other comments?<br><br><br>Aaron Gerow<br>Director of Undergraduate Studies, Film Studies Program<br>Assistant Professor<br>Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures<br>Yale University<br>53 Wall Street, Room 316<br>
PO Box 208363<br>New Haven, CT 06520-8363<br>USA<br>Phone: 1-203-432-7082<br>Fax: 1-203-432-6764<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:aaron.gerow@yale.edu">aaron.gerow@yale.edu</a><br><br><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Lorenzo J. Torres Hortelano