Illustration: In a small Japanese neighborhood cinema, viewers sit facing a projected live-action detective film. On the screen, a detective in a wool overcoat pursues a suspect past a London double-decker bus and rows of British terraced houses.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

洋よう画が

youga

foreign film

Example sentences

  1. 洋画ようがロードショー劇場げきじょうとして再さいオープン。

    It reopened as a road show movie theater for foreign films.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  2. 常つねに洋画ようがと、ヒット予想よそうの高たかい邦画ほうがを上映じょうえい。

    It specialized in foreign films as well as Japanese films, which sold well.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 本業ほんぎょうの映像部門えいぞうぶもんでも、香港映画限定ほんこんえいがげんていながら洋画ようが配給部門はいきゅうぶもんを新設しんせつし邦画部門ほうがぶもんの不振ふしんを補おぎなった。

    In the main video-content business, to make up for the slowdown in Japanese films Toei created a distribution section for foreign films, though it was in fact limited to films from Hong Kong.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 洋画

  • 洋ocean; seaOnヨウ
  • 画picture; strokeOnガ・カク・エKunえがく・かくする・かぎる

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