noun
Japanese film; Japanese movie
Refers to films made in Japan or Japanese-language/Japanese-produced cinema, often contrasted with 洋画 for foreign or Western films.
See also: 洋画
週末は家で邦画を三本見た。
Over the weekend I watched three Japanese films at home.
この映画館は邦画の上映が多い。
This movie theater shows a lot of Japanese films.
noun
Japanese painting
Art-context use for Japanese painting, especially as a counterpart to 洋画. In everyday modern Japanese, 日本画 is often the clearer term for Japanese-style painting.
美術の文脈では、邦画が日本の絵画を指すことがある。
In an art context, hōga can refer to Japanese painting.
The clearer and more common term for Japanese-style painting; 邦画 in the painting sense is more context-dependent.
A Sino-Japanese compound: 邦 means one's country or Japan in contrastive compounds, and 画 means picture, painting, or film depending on context.