Japan s film industry has huge gender gap, likely due to harassment, long working hours
July 11, 2021 (Mainichi Japan)
This photo shows the founders of the Japanese Film Project (clockwise from left): Erina Ito, Tatsuhito Utagawa, and Takashi Nishihara. TOKYO Over the past 20 years, only 25 women have directed a hit Japanese film. Japan ranked 120th in the latest Global Gender Gap Report, and a survey has revealed that the country s film industry, overwhelmingly male-dominated, is no exception. The survey was conducted by the Japanese Film Project (JFP), a nonprofit organization founded by filmmaker Tatsuhito Utagawa, director Takashi Nishihara, and journalist Erina Ito to study gender inequality and working conditions in Japanese film production and to make policy recommendations.
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The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPA) announced the 2020 National Film Overview, a summary of Japan s box office from last year, on Wednesday.
The number of movie theater attendees in 2020 was 106.137 million, which is down 45.5% from 2019. Box office revenue was 143.285 billion yen (about US$1.4 billion), which is down 45.1% from 2019. The data reflects the effects of restricted seating and movie theater closures.
The box office revenues for overseas films in Japan was 34.009 billion yen (about US$327 million), a decrease of 71.4% from 2019. Japanese movies revenues decreased by 23.1% from 2019 to 109.276 billion yen (about US$1 billion). The ratio of Japanese movie revenues to the total rose from 54.4% in 2019 to 76.3% in 2020.