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.
Japan Producer Organization Calls for End to Cinema Closures
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The Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (Eiren) has called on the national government to allow the reopening of cinemas that have been closed under a state of emergency declaration.
In a statement, signed by executives of companies including Toho, Shochiku, Toei and Kadokawa, Eiren argues that the closure was ordered despite a lack of evidence that theaters are the sites of coronavirus clusters.
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Without the ability to release films in major cities such as Tokyo and Osaka, which account for 35% of theatrical revenues, distributors are finding it hard to turn a profit. Some have delayed releases and written off marketing costs for the postponed films.