613 Japanese and 579 foreign films were released in Japan last year, and its total box office sales was 225.51 billion yen, which was 2.7% down from the previous year, but still the third highest record in 19 years since 2000.
A total of 31 Japanese and 23 foreign films earned more than one billion yen.
The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, held an annual press conference in Tokyo yesterday to report industrial statistics of Japanese film industry for the year 2018.