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Japanese Box Office Enjoys Record Year With 235.5 Billion Yen in 2016
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ or Eiren) released the statistics for the Japanese box office for 2016 on Tuesday. The statistics count films that opened from November 2015 to November 2016.
The total gross for the Japanese box office for the year is 235.508 billion yen ($2.07 billion), an 8.5% increase from last year, and a record high for Japan. The total of number of issions for the year is 180,189,000, an 8.1% increase from last year. That equates to an average of 1.42 per person.
Domestic films earned a total of 148.68 billion yen ($1.30 billion), a 23.5% increase from last year. Foreign films earned 86.9 billion ($764 million), a 10.2% decrease from last year. Foreign films contributed 36.9% to the overall box office earnings, compared to 44.6% from last year.
610 domestic films opened in Japan, compared to 581 last year. 42 of these films earned more than 1 billion yen ($8.79 million), an increase from last year's 39. These 42 films earned a total of 116.7 billion yen ($1.02 billion). 11 of these were anime films, a decrease from last year's 13. These anime films earned a total of 55.3 billion ($486 million), 47% of the total of all domestic films. your name. anime film has earned a total of 23.56 billion ($207 million) yen as of Tuesday.
Notable anime films that did not make it into the top 10 highest grossing KING OF PRISM by PrettyRhythm earned 700 million yen ($6.15 million).
539 foreign films opened in Japan, compared to 555 last year. 19 of those films earned more than 1 billion yen. Four of them were animated films. Animated films for 33% of the total earned by these 19 films. The highest earning foreign film was Star Wars: The Force Awakens, followed by Zootopia, Finding Dory, and The Secret Life of Pets.
The total number of movie screens in Japan was 3,472 screens, adding 35 screens from last year. The average ission fee was 1,307 yen ($11) down slightly from 1,303 yen last year.
Source: Animation Business Journal (link 2) (Tadashi Sudo)
Update: Ticket price rate corrected. Thanks, Aezreal
