Japan box office data

[Stephen Cremin]

Licensees of Kogyo Tsushin who reliably publish the data online in  
English include Screen International (www.screendaily.com) and  
Variety (www.variety.com), both subscription-only.  You can also  
access some historical data on these sites and they have trial  
subscriptions that don't require credit card details.

Stephen



On Aug 14, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Michi Kaifu wrote:

> Wei,
>
> As far as I know, Kogyo Tsushin collects daily box office data, but  
> the only
> thing they make public is the weekend RANKING.  You have to  
> subscribe to
> them for a fee to get the entire data.  Some websites quote this data
> from time to time, and I sometimes pick up those numbers from various
> sites to write articles.  You can go to Kogyo Tsushin website's "About
> Kogyo Tsushin" to subscribe.
>
> Box Office Mojo also has weekly data in their international  
> section, but
> I think that some obvious titles are missing, and it is not so  
> reliable.
>
> For the historical data for the ones that made more than 1 billion  
> yen,
> you can find the list on Motion Picture Producers Associations of  
> Japan
> website.  They have the list all the way back to 1980 in Japanese  
> pages,
> but only 2004/05 lists are available in English.
>
> All of these links are on "Data and Links" page on Hoga Central.
>
> http://www.hogacentral.com/Data.html
>
> Ryuganji usually puts up Kogyo Tsushin's weekend ranking on his blog.
>
> http://ryuganji.net/news/index.php
>
> Hope it helps.
>
>
> Michi Kaifu
> Editor, Hoga Central
> www.hogacentral.com
> mkaifu at hogacentral.com
>
>