Cinema admissions and box-office revenue in Japan took a historic dive in 2020, due to delays in major releases and people staying home because of the coronavirus outbreak, a film industry body said Wednesday.An animated movie based on the blockbuster "Demon Slayer" manga series, however, provided a silver lining for the country's movie industry, earning about 22 percent of total revenue, according to the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan.In the reporting year, annual theatergoer numbers totaled 106.14 million, plummeting to the lowest since 1955, when the association was launch…READ FULL ARTICLE
