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Japan Box Office Recovery Stalls in 2023 as Hollywood Titles Lose Favor
Japan's cinema box office edged ahead only marginally last year and Hollywood's market share tumbled by 15 percentage points.
Japan ’s cinema box office edged slightly forward in 2023 after a strong rebound in 2022, but the business remains at levels below record-breaking 2019, which was the last normal year before the CIVID pandemic. Annual figures were released on Tuesday by the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (EIREN), with the ‘2023’ data idiosyncratically covering the period from the beginning of December 2022 to the end of November. The 2023 gross box office total is 15% below 2019’s JPY261 trillion, which was also a time when the Japanese currency was worth vastly more against the American dollar.
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