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Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, held the No. 1 spot in its third weekend. The film sold 267,600 tickets for 421,358,110 yen (about $2.84 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 1.84 million tickets with a cumulative total of 2,851,401,280 yen (about 19.27 million USD).
Godzilla Minus One opens in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which is the film’s anniversary. the first Godzilla movie was released on November 3, 1954. The new film premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year’s event on November 1.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three showings. date available at the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last Japanese live-action Godzilla film, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s Shin Godzilla, did. made it in the first three days of 2016.
Ryunosuke Kamiki plays the main character Kōichi Shikishima and Minami Hamabe plays the heroine Noriko Ōishi. (Both also starred in NHK’s weekday morning drama Ranman.) Other cast members include Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
The film will open in US theaters on December 1.
Yamazaki is the director and screenwriter, and is also credited for the visual effects. Yamazaki primarily directed live-action films, including Always: Sunset on Third Street, Returner and Parasyte, but also directed CG films such as Stand By Me Doremon.
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The Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) ranked 2nd in its opening weekend. The film sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen (about US$1.07 million) in its first three days of release.
The film opened in Japan last Friday.
Gou Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!! , One Piece Episode of Sabo) directed the series at Toei Animation and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 2018’s 13-episode GeGeGe no Kitarō) wrote the script. Touko Yatabe (GeGeGe no Kitarō 2018’s third ending director, Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director) designed the characters. The main cast includes Toshihiko Seki as Kitarō’s father, who later becomes Medama Oyaji, and Hidenobu Kikuchi as Mizuki, a salaryman who comes to a cursed village under secret orders.
The film is part of four “major” projects” commemorating the 100th anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki’s birth. Mizuki passed away in 2015, at the age of 93. Another project is the new Akuma Kun anime that premiered on Netflix on November 9.
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Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Tsugihagi Kōjo no Fushigi na Ko (The Mysterious Child of the Temporary Factory), the third anime film of San-X’s Sumikko Gurashi series, rose from #4 to #3 in its third weekend in Japan. Japan. The film earned 94,391,300 yen (about $637,600) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 447,800 tickets and grossed a total of 566,309,020 yen (about US$3.82 million).
The film opened in Japan on November 3 and sold 192,300 tickets for 242,553,320 yen (about US$1.61 million). The first three days are available at the Japanese box office.
Hazumu Sakuta (Neko no Dayan, Uchū Nanchara Kotetsu-kun) directs his third film at Fanworks. Takashi Sumita (Europe Kikaku) returned from the first film to write the script for the third film. Yoshihiko Inohara and Manami Honjō return from the first and second films to narrate the third film.
In the third film’s story, the characters find an ancient building deep in the woods. The building turned out to be a toy factory. They all start making toys in the factory, with Shirakuma using his skills to operate a sewing machine and Penguin? Examine the toy with a magnifying glass. But the factory itself hides something more special.
Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 playing slightly negative characters who like to stay in the corner of the room. Characters include “Shirokuma”, a cold-sensitive polar bear; “Penguin?” (which has a question mark in its name), a penguin who is unsure whether he is actually a penguin or not;”Tonkatsu,” a leftover pork cutlet; “Neko,” a shy cat; and “Tokage”, who hides his nature as one of the last dinosaurs.
The first anime film, titled Sumikkogurashi – Good to be in the Corner, opened in Japan in November 2019. Ultimately, the film sold a total of 1.22 million tickets and grossed 1. 4 billion yen (about US$12.8 million) at the box office in Japan as of February 2020. The film won Best Animation of the Year at the 29th Annual Japan Film Critics Awards in June 2020.
Eiga Sumikko Gurashi: Aoi Tsukiyo no Mahō no Ko (The Miraculous Child of the Blue Moon Night), the second film, opened in Japan in November 2021 and sold about 200,000 tickets to gross about 250 million yen ( approximately 2.22 million US dollars) in the first three days.
The series had its first anime television series airing on October 6, and then all five episodes on November 5.
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The live-action film of Tatsuya Iguchi and Makoto Mizuta’s Out manga ranked at number 6 in its opening weekend. The film opened in Japan last Friday and grossed 50,425,070 yen (about US$337,700) in its first three days of release.
The manga is a spin-off of Tatsuya Iguchi’s novel Drop, revolving around the legendary criminal Tatsuya Iguchi (author Iguchi claims). that the manga is based on his early life). After Iguchi got out of the juvenile detention center, he was determined to start a new, clean life, leaving his hometown of Komae and staying with relatives who ran a yakiniku restaurant in Chiba, always struggling to escape. old violent habits.
Hiroshi Shinagawa directed and wrote the script for the film. Yūki Kura stars in the film as main character Tatsuya Iguchi.
Shinagawa previously directed a live-action film adaptation of Iguchi’s novel Drop in 2009, as well as a live-action film adaptation that premiered on June 2.
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One Piece Film Red’s month-long encore dropped from 6th to 7th place in its fifth and final weekend. The encore screening earned 41,505,090 yen (about US$280,300) from Friday to Sunday. Including the original screening from August 6, 2022 to January 29, the film sold a total of 14.74 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 20,330,251,170 yen (about 137 million USD). . Currently, the film has surpassed Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone to become the 6th highest-grossing film of all time in Japan (unadjusted for inflation) and the 4th highest-grossing animated film in Japan.
The encore screening opened on October 20. The encore screening ranked No. 1 in its first weekend and sold 122,000 tickets to earn 159,197,710 yen (about US$1.06 million) in three the first day.
The film became the highest-grossing film of the best-selling series and the highest-grossing in both number of tickets sold and yen earned at the box office. The film topped the Japanese box office in 2022 in terms of yen earned and tickets sold.
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Yumi Tamura Nakare’s live-action film Don’t Call It Mystery (Mystery to Iu) dropped from 7th to 8th place in its 10th week of release. The film earned 41,152,840 yen (about $278,300) from Friday to Sunday. The film earned a cumulative total of 4,617,625,230 yen (about US$31.24 million).
The manga is about college students solving Totonō Kunō mysteries. At the beginning of the story, the police brought him in for questioning on suspicion of murdering a classmate. The film focuses on the “Hiroshima Arc” of the manga, which appears in the second to fourth volumes of the manga. The “Hiroshima Arc” begins when Kunō travels to Hiroshima and becomes entangled in a family battle for inheritance. Kariatsumari.
The film opened on September 15 and sold 609,600 tickets to earn 850,483,760 yen (about US$5.71). million) in the first three days, ranking No. 1 in its opening weekend. Masaki Suda reprized his role as protagonist Totonō Kunō in the manga’s live-action film series.
Hiroaki Matsuyama, Tomoko Aizawa, and Ken Arai all returned from the series as director, scriptwriter, and composer, respectively.
“Gintama on Theater 2D: Baragaki-hen,” a film compiling the “Baragaki” (Thorny) arc of the Gintama anime, dropped out of the top 10 in its second weekend, but still earned 21,357,600 yen (about $144,500). US dollars) from Friday to Sunday and earned a cumulative total of 78,109,500 yen (about US$528,500).
PA Works’ new anime series project Komada-A Whiskey Family (Komada Jōryūsho e Yōkoso, literally “Welcome to the Komada Distillery) dropped out of the top 10 in its second weekend, but still earned earned 18,439,830 yen (about 124,700 USD) from Friday to Sunday and has earned a total of 78,247,200 yen (about 529,400 USD).
Source: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC