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2nd Sumikko Gurashi Film Falls to #8 as Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations Opens at #4

dropped from #5 to #8 in its seventh weekend. The film earned 35,798,320 yen ($314,800) from Friday to Sunday), and has earned a cumulative total of 1,075,601,020 yen ($9.45 million)

The film opened in Japan on November 5, and sold about 200,000 tickets to earn about 250 million yen ($2.22 million) in its first three days.

ASMIK Ace is distributing.

In the film's story, the main characters go on a camping trip one day in the fall, and that night they recall a legend: that once every five years, on the night of a large and blue full moon, magical creatures will visit the town. The characters look up, only to see a large and blue moon overhead.

Sumikko Gurashi debuted in 2012 as slightly negative characters who like to stay in the corner of a room. The characters include "Shirokuma," a polar bear who is sensitive to cold; "Penguin?" (with a question mark in its name), a penguin who is unsure if it is actually a penguin; "Tonkatsu," a piece of pork cutlet that was left uneaten; "Neko," a shy cat; and "Tokage," who hides his nature as one of the last dinosaurs.

The live-action film Kamen Rider: Beyond Generations opened at #4 in 343 theaters and earned 164,494,320 yen ($1.44 million) in its first three days.

The film dropped off the top 10 in its eighth weekend.

The live action film What Did You Eat Yesterday? (Kinō Nani Tabeta?) manga dropped off the top 10 in its seventh weekend.

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