The kinetoscope, first shown commercially by Thomas Edison in the United States in 1894, was first shown in Japan in November 1896. The annual Japan Academy Film Prize hosted by the Nippon Academy-shō Association is considered to be the Japanese equivalent of the Academy Awards. Japan's Big Four film studios are Toho, Toei, Shochiku and Kadokawa, which are the only members of the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan (MPPAJ). Japan has won the Academy Award for the Best International Feature Film four times, more than any other Asian country. Tokyo Story also topped the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll of The Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time, dethroning Citizen Kane, while Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954) was voted the greatest foreign-language film of all time in BBC's 2018 poll of 209 critics in 43 countries. Tokyo Story (1953) ranked number three in Sight & Sound critics' list of the 100 greatest films of all time. Films have been produced in Japan since 1897, when the first foreign cameramen arrived. In 2011 Japan produced 411 feature films that earned 54.9% of a box office total of US$2.338 billion. Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world as of 2021, it was the fourth largest by number of feature films produced. The cinema of Japan ( 日本映画, Nihon eiga, also known domestically as 邦画 hōga, "domestic cinema") has a history that spans more than 100 years.
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