Japanese cinemas rang up a healthy rise in ticket sales in 2014 as blockbuster animation film “Frozen” eclipsed an otherwise lackluster show by Hollywood, industry data showed on Tuesday.
The box office rose 6.6 percent last year to $1.75 billion, the highest since the 2010 record of 220 billion yen, the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan said.
Walt Disney’s “Frozen” – known in Japan as “Anna and the Snow Queen” – took in $216 million alone, becoming the third-biggest movie of all time in Japan and accounting for more than 10 percent of the overall box office.
