Author: N.A.
Source: "The Evening Post", Saturday, Februay 16, 1929, p. 21
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Japan is the second largest investor in the film business to the amount of 120,00,000 yen. Moving pictures were first imported here in 1893, says "Trans-Pacific," published in Tokio. Admission fees ranging from one to three yen a person were charged for exhibition at the Kinkikan Hall, Kanda, Tokio, and, despite tho extortionate charges for those days, the hall drew a full house. One reel measured only a few hundred feet and the same picture was exhibited again and again.
After going through a primitive stage, tho movie business has developed into a well supported state. Homemade films have begun to be received enthusiastically and imported films have declined in popularity since a few years ago.
The average admission fee is 30 sen (15 cents) a person in most Japanese theatres. Adults admitted into all movie halls in Japan last year numbered 117,807,346 and children 40,717,371. Of all movie halls in Japan, numbering 1172 for 1927, 577 exhibited films of pure Japanese production, 39 imported films, and the remaining halls mixed ones.
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