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Japanese Box Office, April 11-12
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set eight months after the first schoolyard-brawl film and just before Genji's graduation.
Drop, comedian Be-Bop-Highschool fighting manga to a delinquent gang.
Another of Miike's films, the live-action Yatterman science-fiction comedy anime, dropped from #2 to #4 in its sixth weekend, but still added US$734,236 to its total of US$28,944,896 on 309 screens. The Cinema Today website corroborates these numbers and notes that the movie has been seen by over 2.5 million times and has earned 2,868,282,750 yen ($28.9 million) as of April 14.
remake of a classic 1980-1981 Doraemon manga story that sends the title robot cat to space, dropped to #5. It garnered US$602,239 on 364 screens in its sixth weekend. It now has a gross-to-date of US$23,342,945.
The new #1 film was Romance of the Three Kingdoms that inspired other films and television projects.
Sources: Kogyo Tsushinsha
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