The cinema of Japan (æ—¥æœ¬æ˜ ç"», Nihon eiga, also known domestically
as 邦ç"» hÅ ga, "domestic cinema") has a history that spans more than
100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in
the world; as of 2010, it was the fourth largest by number of feature
films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned
54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been
produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen
arrived.In a Sight & Sound list of the best films produced in Asia,
Japanese works made up eight of the top 12, with Tokyo Story (1953)
ranked number one. Tokyo Story also topped the 2012 Sight & Sound
directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning
Citizen Kane, while Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) was voted
the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of
209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the
Best Foreign Language Film four times,[nb 1] more than any other Asian
country.Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and
Kadokawa, which are the members of the Motion Picture Producers
Association of Japan (MPPAJ). The annual Japan Academy Film Prize
hosted by the Nippon Academy-shÅ Association is considered to be the
Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards.
as 邦ç"» hÅ ga, "domestic cinema") has a history that spans more than
100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in
the world; as of 2010, it was the fourth largest by number of feature
films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned
54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been
produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen
arrived.In a Sight & Sound list of the best films produced in Asia,
Japanese works made up eight of the top 12, with Tokyo Story (1953)
ranked number one. Tokyo Story also topped the 2012 Sight & Sound
directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning
Citizen Kane, while Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) was voted
the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of
209 critics in 43 countries. Japan has won the Academy Award for the
Best Foreign Language Film four times,[nb 1] more than any other Asian
country.Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and
Kadokawa, which are the members of the Motion Picture Producers
Association of Japan (MPPAJ). The annual Japan Academy Film Prize
hosted by the Nippon Academy-shÅ Association is considered to be the
Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards.
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