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The Japanese Film Project (Jfp) released the results of a survey that was conducted to investigate gender disparities and improve the working environment in the Japanese film industry’s production sites on Dec 12, 2023.

This time, the survey expanded its scope to include both anime films and also theatre works. In addition to that, the new survey also examined the gender ratio in “assistant roles” in the anime film industry, instead of just focusing on the decision making positions.

The movies that were considered for the survey included One Piece: Film Red, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Suzume no Tojimari, Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween, Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Scarlet Bond, Sword Art Online the Movie -Progressive- Scherzo of Deep Night, and others which released in 2022 and managed to earn over 1 billion yen in box office revenue.

The results found gender disparities in...

South Korea’s cinema box office slipped to its lowest level since mid-May as local film “6/45” took the top spot with just 3.06 million over the weekend in its second week of release.

Comedy “6/45” was released a week earlier and scored 2.74 million in its opening weekend, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The latest weekend, then, represents an 11 improvement for the title. It increased its share of the market to 45 during the latest weekend and advanced its cumulative total to 8.36 million.

Depressed by a lack of significant new releases, the nationwide box office over the Friday to Sunday period, however, dropped to 6.75 million. This was the lowest scoring weekend since the first half of May.

Monthly data from Kobis shows August grosses were KRW14.9 billion, down from KRW16.3 billion in July, but almost double the figure of KRW7.9 billion in August 2021. Korean...

“Emergency Declaration,” a timely Korean-made action thriller, flew to an opening weekend of 6.5 million. But it was old-fashioned naval actioner “Hansan: Rising Dragon” that stayed afloat at the top of the South Korean box office for a second week.

“Hansan,” a sequel to a 2014 record breaker, earned 9.18 million from over 1,600 screens, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). That was a week on week decrease of 32. Its market share fell from 60 to 45. Still, after 12 days in Korean cinemas, “Hansan” has accumulated 36.0 million and is now the fourth highest grossing film of the year to date.

“Emergency Declaration,” which had a special screening in Cannes last year, and had been rescheduled several times, finally got to fly on Wednesday. It took off strongly for distributor Showbox and topped the daily charts on Wednesday and Thursday. But the film flew into turbulence over the...

A powerful debut for “Hansan: Rising Dragon,” a locally-made historical action film, lifted the South Korean box office to its second highest weekend of the year and helped July to be the best month of 2022.

The film is a prequel to “Roaring Currents” a tale of an heroic 14th century naval admiral that amassed some 17 million admissions in 2014 and is currently the most-watched Korean film of all time.

Data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic), showed that “Hansan” earned 13.4 million from 1.63 million ticket sales between Friday and Sunday, for a market share of 60. Over its first five days in theaters, the film amassed 17.9 million from 2.27 million spectators.

That makes it only the third Korean film so far this year to pass the 2 million ticket sales mark, behind “The Roundup” which has now reached 12.7 million spectators and 100.4 million in revenues and “The Witch: Part 2.