The table below illustrates cinema viewing figures for four film genres in four different countries, measured in millions
Overall, action films accounted for the highest viewing figures across the countries shown, while the horror recorded the lowest total audience. In addition, India had the highest overall number of cinema viewers, whereas Japan had the lowest.
Regarding action and romance films, action was the most popular genre in all four countries, where India regarded the highest figure at 8 million viewers.The corresponding numbers were slightly lower in Ireland, New Zealand and Japan, at 7.6 million, 7.2 million and 7.1 million respectively. As for romance films , India also led the group with 7.5 million viewers, while the Ireland accounted for the lowest figure at 3.8 million. Both New Zealand and Japan recorded the same viewing numbers of 4.5 million.
Turning to comedy and horror films, comedy attracted more viewers than horror in every country except Ireland. India again recorded the highest figure for comedy, at 6.5 million, followed by Ireland at 5.5 million. In contrast, Horror was the least popular genre overall, with Japan having the lowest proportion at 2.2 million. Ireland was the only country where horror films were popular than comedy, with viewing figures 6.4 million and 5.5 million respectively.
