[KineJapan] Content industry export value statistics?

Stephen Cremin stephen at asianfilm.info
Wed May 28 06:59:35 EDT 2014


I was thinking Uniqlo clothing... But karaoke is more believable.—
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On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Eija Niskanen <eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi>
wrote:

> Stephen - you are right in your last remark. "Content" might refer to
> anything, including the sales of karaoke. :D
> Eija
> 2014-05-28 13:11 GMT+03:00 Stephen Cremin <stephen at asianfilm.info>:
>> ¥153. Just joking.
>>
>> I'd love to know the value of movie exports and presumably that was
>> estimated by JETRO, VIPO, etc, when pushing for their budgets. But given
>> how difficult it is to get timely and detailed box office data in Japan, I
>> imagine the numbers you're looking for might not be so forthcoming. (That
>> US$300m Cool Japan fund should license Kogyo Tsushin's historical data for
>> industry use. How can one hope to have a professional film industry in any
>> country without transparent box office?)
>>
>> In South Korea, sales companies give the actual dollar numbers for each
>> film by territory to the Korean Film Council in confidence, who publish
>> aggregated numbers on the annual percentage change in sales, including
>> overages. They can also break it don by territory, to see how sales to
>> Germany, etc, is faring. But looking at last years total export value,
>> which grew 83.7% on 2012, is pretty meaningless without knowing what
>> Weinstein paid for SNOWPIERCER.
>>
>> It would be fascinating to have annual figures in Japan going back several
>> years, if only to see the effectiveness of the subsidies going to sales
>> companies at markets, etc. Surely it's the best indicator of their success. I'd
>> be careful of the word "content" as it's too vague and government
>> departments might define it more broadly than is useful.
>>
>> Stephen Cremin
>>
>>
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>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Eija Niskanen <eija at helsinkicineaasia.fi>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi! Which source do you suggest I find reliable yearly figures in terms
>>> of finding the export value of content industry in all and movie export -
>>> and is there a special figure for remake export value?
>>>
>>> Eija
>>>
>>
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