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Kaiji Final Game Film Opens at #2, My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising Drops to #7

Kaiji 2 - Jinsei Dakkai Game. While the film sold less tickets than Frozen II (on its eighth weekend in Japan), it earned more yen than Frozen 2 during the weekend.

Kaiji Final Game opened in Japan on January 10 on 333 screens. The film is billed as the "last chapter" of the series, with a completely original story by Fukumoto.

Tatsuya Fujiwara also returned to reprise his role as the titular character.

franchise, dropped from #4 to #7 in its fourth weekend. It earned 72,909,950 yen ($663,000) towards a cumulative total of 1,323,255,050 yen ($12.03 million). The film opened on December 20 on 313 screens, and sold 224,000 tickets on December 21-22 and earned 283 million yen ($2.59 million) on those two days.

As with the previous sumika performed the theme song "Higher Ground."

Kamen Rider Reiwa: The First Generation dropped from #5 to #8 in its fourth weekend. It earned 46,643,710 yen (US$424,200) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 824,085,910 yen ($7.49 million). The film opened on December 21 and earned 248,578,270 yen ($2.27 million) on December 21-22.

The live-action Kiss Me at the Stroke of Midnight (Gozen 0-ji, Kiss Shi ni Kite yo) manga fell from #8 to #9 in its sixth weekend. The film earned 36,011,600 yen ($327,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned cumulative total of 1,075,222,800 yen ($9.78 million).

The film opened in Japan on December 6 on 255 screens. Kanna Hashimoto stars as Hinana Hanazawa.

publishes the manga in English.

Eiga sixth film in the Yo-kai Watch franchise, dropped from #6 to #10 in its fifth weekend. It earned 35,730,600 yen ($324,900) from Friday to Sunday for a cumulative total of 673,653,150 yen ($6.12 million) total.

The new film's story is set in Y-Academy, an elite school that only allows students with top class abilities to enter. The protagonist Jinpei Jiba and his unique friends take on the mysteries of the school as transforming heroes.

series, continues the film's story in the same academy setting. The series premiered on December 27.

The sold 26,000 tickets and earned 45 million yen ($408,800) in its first four days. The film opened in Japan on Friday, January 10 in 31 theaters.

Hiroyuki Ohashi's "ON-GAKU" manga, ranked at #3 in the mini-theater ranking in its opening weekend. The film opened in Japan on January 11.

The film competed in the sixth annual New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival in the Featured Animation Competition category in November.

The theatrical film edition of the OVA on the same day.

Sources: Eiga.com, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC