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The SPY×FAMILY Code: White anime film holds the No. 1 spot in its fourth weekend at the Japanese box office. The film sold 227,000 tickets for 317,050,130 yen (about $2.17 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold 3.61 million tickets for a cumulative total of 4,859,398,450 yen (about US$33.31 million).
The film opens in Japan on December 22. The film is a completely new work with an original story. The film sold 866,000 tickets and grossed 1.224 billion yen (about US$8.61 million) in its first three days of release.
Crunchyroll will stream the film in North America in 2024.
Original manga creator Tatsuya Endō is credited as the author of the original artwork and original character designs for the film, and he also supervised the film. WIT STUDIO and CloverWorks animated the film again.
The film’s new cast includes Tomoya Nakamura as Dmitri, Kento Kaku as Luka, Banjō Ginga as Snijder and Shunsuke Takeuchi as Type F.
Image via Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo anime website
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Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kitarō) Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) rose from 9th to 6th in its ninth weekend. The film earned 138,941,320 yen (about $952,600) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 1,569,000 tickets and grossed a total of 2,237,386,180 yen (about US$15.34 million).
The film opened in Japan on November 17 and sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen (about US$1.07 million). ) during the first three days.
Gō Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!!, One Piece Episode of Sabo) directed the series at Toei Animation and Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier, World Trigger, 13 episodes of 2018’s 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.
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Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki’s new film in TOHO’s Godzilla franchise, ranked No. 7 in its 11th weekend. The film earned 113,843,850 yen (about $780,500) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of 3.464 million tickets and grossed a total of 5,325,455,830 yen (about 36.51 million USD). As of last Friday, the film began streaming on MX4D and 4DX in Japan.
Godzilla Minus One opens in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which is the anniversary of the liberation of the first Godzilla movie on November 3, 1954. The new film screened 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 female lead 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.
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Yama Wayama’s live-action Let’s Go Karaoke! (Karaoke Iko!) Manga ranked 8th in its opening weekend. The film earned 83,089,290 yen (about US$569,700) in its first three days of release.
The film had its world premiere at the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival in Taiwan on November 15. Director Nobuhiro Yamashita also attended.
The film was previously scheduled to open last year, but was postponed to January 2024.
Yamashita (Linda Linda Linda, live-action Cream Lemon) directed the film, with a script by Akiko Nogi (INU-OH, Library Wars, live-action I am a Hero).
Wayama released the manga as a dōjin publication in 2019 and Kadokawa published it in September 2020. The manga came in third place in the 14th Manga Taisho awards in 2021. The manga has 500,000 copies circulated.
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Detective Conan vs. Kid the Phantom Thief, the compilation film of the Detective Conan series, dropped from #4 to #9. The film earned 81,662,600 yen (about US$559,800) from Friday to Sunday and has earned a total of 371,514,200 yen (about US$2.54 million).
The film opened in Japan on January 5, ahead of the release of the upcoming Detective Conan: Hyakuman Doru no Michishirube on April 12. The film grossed 189,438,900 yen (about 1.30 million US dollars) in the first three days of release.
The collection combines and re-edits the television episodes including the debut of Kid the Phantom Thief, and adds a new scene to the story in episode 76, when Conan and Kid have their first confrontation. The special episode also features exclusive new footage of the “valuable interaction” between the two characters.
The live-action sequel Tonde Saitama ~Biwako Yori Ai o Komete~ (Fly Me to Saitama: From Lake Biwa With Love) fell out of the top 10 in its seventh weekend but still earned 63,404,530 yen (about $437,600 US dollars) from Friday to Sunday and earned a total of 2,184,948,550 yen (about US$15.08 million).
Shinei Animation’s anime film Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Madoigwa no Totto-chan) remained outside the top 10 in its fifth weekend, but earned 50,935,040 yen (about $351,600) from Friday through Sunday and had earned a total of 762,516,630 yen (about US$5.26 million).
Source: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC