Japan's post-war creative peak: Kurosawa's humanism, Ozu's stillness, Mizoguchi's formal perfection. Films made under occupation and reconstruction that became the foundation of world cinema's understanding of Japanese culture.
The cinema of Japan , also known domestically as hōga , began in the late 1890s. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world; as of 2022, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced (634) and the third largest in terms of box office revenue and {{Lavaisa}}.