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The Rebirth of the Japanese Movie Industry.
(From Journal of Japanese Trade & Industry (JJTI))
Byline: Kurosawa Tsuneo
Japan's movie industry is making a strong comeback after a long slump. The number of moviegoers is on the rise after years of decline, while various Japanese movies are being remade in Hollywood.
Box office receipts from Japanese and foreign movies totaled some \210.9 billion in 2004, up about \7.7 billion from the previous year. The contributing factor is Japanese movies, rather than foreign movies. While receipts from foreign movies declined by \4.3 billion, Japanese movies marked an 18% rise to \12 billion. The number of moviegoers surged to 170 million in 2004 from an all-time low of 120 million in 1996, which came as a relief to the Japanese movie makers. The number of movies released in 2004 topped 300 for the first time in 20 years.
The popularity of Japanese movies last year is attributed to animated films such as Howl's Moving Castle by the world-famous anime director Miyazaki Hayao, as well as love stories such as Sekai no Chushin de Ai wo Sakebu (Crying Love at the Center of the World). This year, various types of movies hit the box office. Among them are Densha Otoko (The Train Man), which tells the story of a hapless geek who wins the heart of a beautiful woman with the help of his Internet buddies, and Negotiator Mashita Masayoshi, featuring a policeman's fight against crime against the backdrop of the Tokyo subway system.
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