[KineJapan] Japanese BO figures for 2017

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Tue Jan 30 03:15:18 EST 2018


Eiren has released their statistics for the Japanese box office for 2017. 

http://eiren.org/toukei/index.html

Some of our colleagues have already published some write-ups on the data:

http://variety.com/2018/film/asia/japan-box-office-slides-in-2017-hollywood-gains-1202676519/
http://blog.alltheanime.com/japanese-box-office-in-2017/

The general impression is that this was a mediocre year. Total box office was down 3% and BO for Japanese films was down 16%, though domestic productions still have the majority market share (55 to 45). There was no huge hit like Your Name to buoy the market. The top film overall was Beauty and the Beast, with Detective Conan being the top Japanese film. Six of the top 10 Japanese films were anime, only one of which was not part of some series. 

Always of concern is that Toho distributed 15 of the top 20 Japanese films. Only Warner Bros. had more than one film in the top 20. Of the old-time majors, Toei only had one film in the top 20 and Shochiku’s top grosser was at number 27. 

For famous filmmakers, KItano came in at 18 and Koreeda at 22. 

The number of films and the number of screens both increased slightly. The average ticket price rose 3 yen to 1310 yen. 


Aaron Gerow
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