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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
51 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films 353 39.3 47.3% Film festival
52 Nashville Film Festival 352 45.1 58.2% Film festival
53 São Paulo International Film Festival 339 37.0 58.9% Film festival
54 Giffoni Film Festival 339 35.7 67.0% Film festival
55 Filmfest Hamburg 336 33.6 100.0% Film festival
56 Netherlands Film Festival 335 35.2 69.7% Film festival
57 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival 331 34.8 52.7% Film festival
58 CPH:PIX 326 34.2 58.6% Film festival
59 Mill Valley Film Festival 326 23.5 44.3% Film festival
60 Festival Lumiere 321 33.0 61.9% Film festival
61 Festival de Gramado 312 36.7 72.4% Film festival
62 New Orleans Film Festival 276 28.6 66.9% Film festival
63 ReelAbilities 263 33.0 41.3% Film festival
64 Dallas International Film Festival 252 44.0 42.2% Film festival
65 Cinelatino 214 40.8 40.8% Film festival
66 Orlando Film Festival 197 46.3 42.6% Film festival
67 Indiana Comic Con 184 22.9 76.6% Film festival
68 Sci-Fi-London 167 25.0 84.2% Film festival
69 Maryland Film Festival 131 46.0 41.7% Film festival
70 International Istanbul Film Festival 108 Film festival
71 Houston Cinema Arts Festival 83 35.3 63.2% Film festival
72 Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 54 Film festival
73 Miami Short Film Festival 31 43.8 37.5% Film festival
74 Berlin & Beyond Film Festival 11 Film festival
75 Gulf Coast Film Festival 0 34.9 52.7% 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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