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Japanese Box Office, April 18-19
posted on by Egan Loo
shōnen manga about a brilliant detective trapped in a child's body, opened at #1 on Kogyo Tsushinsha's Japanese box office chart during the April 18-19 weekend. According to Box Office Mojo, it took in the equivalent of US$6,021,234 on 341 screens.
set eight months after the first schoolyard-brawl film and just before Genji's graduation.
Eiga Yoshito Usui's comedy manga and anime, opened at #4. It garnered US$1,694,368 on 323 screens.
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 #4 to #9 in its seventh weekend, but still added US$401,745 to its total of US$29,668,401 on 303 screens.
remake of a classic 1980-1981 Doraemon manga story that sends the title robot cat to space, dropped from #5 off the chart in its fifth weekend.
Sources: Kogyo Tsushinsha
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