Mizuho Securities hopes to cash in on Japan¡¯s low-budget animation films becoming popular worldwide by boosting financing for the sector.
The Tokyo-based brokerage is starting an investment fund for films by the end of this year.
It will initially have around ?1.5 billion ($9.5 million) to ?2.5 billion to deploy in financing, and it plans to invest about ?800 million per movie.
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