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Mobile SuitGundam Seed anime FREEDOM rose back to No. 1 from No. 2 in its third weekend. The film sold 247,000 tickets for 449,185,600 yen ($2.98 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1.63 million tickets with a cumulative total of 2.68 billion yen (about US$17.94 million) as of Monday.
The film is currently the highest-grossing film in the Gundam series at the Japanese box office. surpassing the 2.3 billion yen gross of the 1982 animated film Mobile Suit Sword III: Encounters in Space (US$15.5 million in current conversion).
The film is playing in 353 theaters in Japan and has 4DX, MX4D and Dolby added. Screenings begin on Friday.
The film opened at No. 1 at the Japanese box office, selling 634,182 tickets for 1,065,983,130 yen (about US$7.20 million) in its first three days of release, marking a three-week box office gross. the highest opening day for the Gunma franchise, and the biggest opening weekend for a film this year in Japan. Mobile Suit Gun Seed FREEDOM opened in Japan on January 26. The film is expected to screen in 56 countries and territories.
Mobile Suit Gundunda director Mitsuo Fukuda directed the film at Bandai Namco Filmworks. Fukuda also co-wrote the script with his late wife Chiaki Morosawa and Liu Goto. Hisashi Hirai (Mobile Suit Gun Seed) designed the characters.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba-To the Hashira Training-, a theatrical screening of the first hour-long episode of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Anime TV Arc, dropped from #1 to #2 in its second weekend . The film sold 204,000 tickets for 294,099,090 yen (about US$1.95 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has sold a total of 874,000 tickets for a cumulative total of about 1.25 billion yen ( about $8.35 million) as of Monday.
Shows opened at No. 1 at the Japanese box office on its opening weekend in Tokyo on February 2, as part of the World Tour. The screenings sold 443,700 tickets for 646,790,467 yen (about US$4.35 million) in the first three days.
Following the World Tour, theatrical screenings will open in North American theaters on February 23. The anime will also play in IMAX and premium large format.
The Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Hashira Training Arc anime will premiere on television this spring.
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The live-action film adapted from Satoru Noda’s Golden Kamuy manga held third place in its fourth week of release. The film sold 158,000 tickets for 240,535,930 yen (about $1.59 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1,422,000 tickets for a cumulative total of 2.085 billion yen (about US$13.84 million) as of Monday.
The film opened in Japan on January 19 and topped the Japanese box office in its first week of release. The film sold 356,000 tickets for 533,848,690 yen (about US$3.62 million) in its first three days of release.
Shigeaki Kubo directed the film at production company CREDEUS. Tsutomu Kuroiwa wrote the script. Yutaka Yamada composes the music. Hiroshi Nakagawa and Debo Akibe were assigned to monitor the Ainu. Japanese rock group ACIDMAN performs the theme song “Kagayakerumono”(Those Who Shine).
Satoru Noda launched the manga in Shueisha’s Young Jump magazine in 2014 and ended it in April 2022. The manga inspired four anime seasons, and production on the final anime season was greenlit.
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The SPY×FAMILY Code: White anime film falls from #4 to #6 in its eighth weekend. The film earned 112,131,520 yen (about US$744,300) from Friday to Sunday and has earned a cumulative total of 5,854,643,050 yen (about US$38.86 million).
The film opened in Japan on December 22. The film is a completely new film working with an original story. The film sold 866,000 tickets for 1.224 billion yen (about US$8.61 million) in its first three days of release.
Crunchyroll will stream the series in North America in 2024.
Original manga creator Tatsuya Endō is credited as the film’s original creator and character designer, 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.
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The Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no The anime film Nazo (Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) returned to the top 10 for its 13th weekend at number 8. The film earned 92,075,030 yen (about $611,600 USD) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 1,855,000 million tickets with a cumulative total of 2.654 billion yen (about US$17.62 million) as of Monday.
The film opened in Japan on November 17 and sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen (about US). 1.07 million USD) in 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, 2018’s 13-episode GeGeGe no Kitarō) wrote the script. Touko Yatabe (GeGeGe no Kitarō 2018 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, dropped from 8th to 10th in its 15th weekend of release. The film earned 57,501,330 yen (about $381,900) from Friday to Sunday. The film sold a total of x tickets for a cumulative total of 5,832,905,120 yen (about 38.74 million USD).
Godzilla Minus One opens in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which is the anniversary of the release of the first Godzilla film on November 3, 1954. The new film is screening at the Festival 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. (The two also lead the cast of NHK’s weekday morning series Ranman.) Other cast members include Yuki Yamada, Munetaka Aoki, Hidetaka Yoshioka, Sakura Andō, and Kuranosuke Sasaki.
The Kamen Rider 555 20th: Paradise Regained film was outside the top 10 in its second weekend but still earned 39,935,660 yen (about $265,200) from Friday to Sunday. The film earned a cumulative total of 178,766,510 yen (about US$1.18 million).
Eiga Given: Hiiragi mix, the first film in a two-part anime sequel project based on Natsuki Kizu’s Given manga, remained at No. 1 in the small theater rankings for its third weekend . The film ranked No. 1 in the mini cinema rankings in its first week of release.
Source: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC