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Japanese Box Office, January 2-3 (Updated)
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launched in December.
One Piece pirate manga, fell to #4, after being at #3 last week. It added US$2,611,102 on 194 screens to its total of US$39,439,879.
Toshiyuki Nishida plays his boss. The two have starred in these films almost every year since 1988.
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider Double & Decade: Movie War 2010 fell from #5 to #6 (#7 on Rentrak Theatrical's chart). It earned US$955,342 on 293 screens to add to its US$13,414,727 total.
reprised their respective roles of Layton and Luke in the movie.
James Cameron's Avatar science-fiction action movie stayed at #1 after debuting last weekend, earning a weekend box office take of US$7,351,042, for a two-week total of US$35,050,720.
Source: Kogyo Tsushinsha
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© Eiichiro Oda/Toei Animation
© 2009 One Piece Production Committee
Update: The Japanese film distributor Toei has announced on January 5 that One Piece Film Strong World was seen 3.01 million times in 24 days. It is the fastest Toei film to sell 3 million tickets since 2000. The previous record-holder, 2008's Aibo, reached the 3-million mark in 32 days. Source: Oricon
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