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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
26 Sitges Film Festival 1.5k 27.9 59.0% Film festival
27 Raindance Film Festival 1.4k 46.2 38.5% Film festival
28 Hong Kong International Film Festival 1.4k 26.3 23.9% Film festival
29 BFI London Film Festival 1.3k 35.2 59.8% Film festival
30 New Horizons Film Festival 1.2k 37.4 0.0% Film festival
31 Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival 959 24.3 47.8% Film festival
32 Telluride Film Festival 950 30.7 54.3% Film festival
33 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 917 26.4 70.6% Film festival
34 Banff Mountain Film Festival 789 32.4 50.0% Film festival
35 New York Film Festival 731 30.8 54.2% Film festival
36 Austin Film Festival 682 49.3 68.3% Film festival
37 Vancouver International Film Festival 663 46.9 62.9% Film festival
38 Fantastic Fest 624 23.4 49.5% Film festival
39 Melbourne International Film Festival 599 28.7 52.1% Film festival
40 Edinburgh International Film Festival 481 29.8 32.1% Film festival
41 Kraków Film Festival 481 36.7 58.0% Film festival
42 Taipei Film Festival 460 33.9 61.4% Film festival
43 Atlanta Film Festival 420 50.3 50.7% Film festival
44 American Film Festival 414 44.4 59.9% Film festival
45 Warsaw International Film Festival 414 38.1 16.4% Film festival
46 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 389 45.5 37.7% Film festival
47 Adelaide Film Festival 376 43.8 67.5% Film festival
48 Stockholm International Film Festival 374 37.3 63.6% Film festival
49 Denver Film Festival 367 42.2 60.5% Film festival
50 Festival du nouveau cinéma 360 33.2 62.5% 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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