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Top 75 Film festivals in Japan

This curated ranking covers the 75 largest film festivals in Japan, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Busan International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 378k people. Across all 75 entries the average audience size is 9.2k, and the largest, Busan International Film Festival, reaches around 168k people in Japan. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with each film festival, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across Japan and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 75, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in Japan who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in Japan. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in Japan, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in Japan. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
1 Busan International Film Festival 168k 43.1 70.9% Film festival
2 Tokyo International Film Festival 142k 42.8 57.3% Film festival
3 Cannes Film Festival 68k 36.7 57.5% Film festival
4 Venice Film Festival 41k 34.2 60.1% Film festival
5 Berlin International Film Festival 40k 36.4 59.5% Film festival
6 Sundance Film Festival 39k 34.3 56.5% Film festival
7 Toronto International Film Festival 31k 36.6 58.1% Film festival
8 Tribeca Film Festival 25k 32.6 57.2% Film festival
9 San Francisco International Film Festival 19k 41.5 0.0% Film festival
10 Sydney Film Festival 11k 31.0 60.7% Film festival
11 Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards 11k 24.5 72.6% Film festival
12 Venice Biennale 10k 33.3 55.6% Film festival
13 Rome Film Festival 8k 36.0 52.7% Film festival
14 Camden International Film Festival 7.6k 52.1 0.0% Film festival
15 Chicago International Film Festival 6.7k 28.0 70.6% Film festival
16 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 6k 33.3 46.3% Film festival
17 Art Film Fest 4.9k 47.2 46.4% Film festival
18 Indonesian Film Festival 3.6k 24.6 63.1% Film festival
19 Overland Expo 2.9k 36.2 35.3% Film festival
20 Directors' Fortnight 2.4k 29.9 53.4% Film festival
21 Metro Manila Film Festival 2.1k 35.1 90.0% Film festival
22 Los Angeles Film Festival 1.9k 35.7 63.4% Film festival
23 San Sebastián International Film Festival 1.9k 42.6 42.9% Film festival
24 International Film Festival Rotterdam 1.8k 28.7 49.3% Film festival
25 Palm Springs International Film Festival 1.6k 42.3 52.1% Film festival

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 75 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across Japan and ranks each film festival by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest film festival in Japan?

Busan International Film Festival currently leads with an estimated audience of 168k people in Japan.

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