Motion Picture Day in Japan
Motion Picture Day in Japan is held on December 1. This event in the first decade of the month December is annual. 
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The cinema of Japan has a history that spans more than 100 years. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived.
In Japan, Motion Picture Day is traditionally celebrated on December 1, with the support of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan.
Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadokawa, which are the only members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ). The annual Japan Academy Film Prize hosted by the Nippon Academy-shō Association is considered to be the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards.
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Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day in Sengaku-ji, Tokyo on December 14
Commemoration Day of 47 rōnin in Japan on December 14
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