If 2020 was the year the world went dark, 2021 was the year the lights slowly flickered back on. For the Japanese film industry—a cornerstone of the nation's "soft power" and entertainment culture—this was a year defined not by silence, but by a desperate, creative roar. It was a year where the box office defied gravity, a global streaming giant bowed to local tradition, and a teenage romance became an unexpected cultural phenomenon.
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: Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. This three-hour epic won Best International Feature Film at the Oscars and was the first Japanese film ever nominated for Best Picture . If 2020 was the year the world went
: The top-grossing film of the year ($93.67M), serving as the long-awaited finale to the Rebuild of Evangelion series Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet Following the production delays of 2020, Japanese cinema