A total of 61 Japanese and foreign films earned over 1 billion yen in the world’s fourth largest film market (in 2015).
The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ) held a press conference in Tokyo yesterday to report industrial statistics of Japanese film industry for the year 2016.
610 Japanese and 539 foreign films were released in Japan last year, and its total box office sales was 235.58 billion yen, which was 8.5% up from the previous year and the highest in 17 years since 2000.