2002 box office

[Jordi Agud i Raquel Vila]

Dear all,

it may be a stupid question but I wonder what is the criteria for
classifying films into Japanese vs. foreign. If it has to do with the
funding capital of the film, I wonder where would (transnational) joint
productions fit in.
And what about Asian films? In my understanding, the kanji in the word
"youga" (the term used for foreign films) means Western rather than foreign
and, I am not so sure about it, but I think that in the videostore close to
my place Chinese films, for example, are classified under the "houga"
category.
I found a list of the films released in 2002 on the "Japanese Movie
Database" (www.jmdb.ne.jp) but the are 4 more than in the figures provided
by Eiren. Is there a way to find their list of 293 Japanese films?

Cheers,
Raquel Vila

----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Gerow" <gerow at ynu.ac.jp>
To: "KineJapan" <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:33 AM
Subject: 2002 box office


> The film industry yesterday released the box office figures for 2002. The
> total box office for the year was 19,678,000,000 yen (98.5% of the 2001
> figures) on admissions of 160,767,000 (98.3%). Miyazaki's Sen to Chihiro
> was a big reason for the good numbers in 2001, but the success of the two
> Harry Potter films helped the industry keep the decline to only a small
> amount. A total or 293 Japanese films were released compared to 347
> foreign films, with Japanese movies taking in only 27.1% of the total box
> office (compared to 39% in 2001). The top Japanese grosser was Studio
> Ghibli's Neko no ongaeshi (6.46 billion yen). The number of screens rose
> to 2635, or 50 more than the previous year.
>
> Aaron Gerow
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