The best ten Japanese films
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During the past twenty years, Japan has been recognised as having a motion picture industry of great sophistication and creative energy. The first film to achieve public accolade outside Japan was "Rashomon", in 1950, but films made prior to that period were, in many cases, of equal stature and they have been shown worldwide in recent years. Japan's first film studio was established in Tokyo in 1904, and, after 1920, the Japanese motion picture industry went from strength to strength. There are some 2,600 cinemas in Japan showing films of domestic and foreign origin.
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