Japanese Bid For Film Markets
AJOT many people realize that Japan is the second biggest film-produc-ing centre in the world, states the “London Film Weekly.” The latest edition of an annual published for the film trade in Japan shows that 524 films were produced there last year, and that 365 of these were equipped for sound.
Japan has 2097 cinemas, and the number is increasing rapidly every year. The number of films imported is decreasing, and nearly all these are brought from Hollywood. There has been evidence for some time that Japan is considering an attempt to get her films shown not only in the Far East, but all over the world. Stars of both sexes are chosen with faces rather more Western in type than the average Japanese, and a general note of European and American ideas is becoming very marked. Well-equipped organizations exist in Hie suburbs of Tokio busily dubbing Japanese films into Chinese and several European languages.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 93, 13 January 1939, Page 14
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