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The film is now the 51st highest-earning film of all time in Japan.
The film sold 847,000 tickets and earned 1,295,808,780 yen ($9.50 million) over its opening weekend.
The film opened in Japan on December 3. The movie has IMAX screenings in 40 cinemas all over Japan, and Dolby Atmos screenings in 34 cinemas. The movie added Dolby Cinema screenings on December 10.
Inoue personally directed the film at Precure Super Stars!).

The film has sured Howl's Moving Castle as the #5 highest-earning anime film in Japan. Moreover, the film has earned the equivalent of 31.9 billion yen ($246.5 million) worldwide, thus suring Howl's Moving Castle as the #4 highest-earning anime film globally.
The film is also the #8 highest-earning film of all time in Japan and topped Japan's box office for 2022 in of yen earned and tickets sold.
One Piece Film Red opened in Japan on August 6. The movie has become the franchise's highest-selling and highest-earning film installment, in of both the number of tickets sold and yen earned at the box office.
The film centers on a new character named Uta, Shanks' daughter. Eiichiro Oda himself served as executive producer.

The film has become the #23 highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, and the #10 highest-grossing anime film of all time in Japan.
The film sold 1.33 million tickets to earn 1.88 billion yen ($13.49 million) in its first three days.
The film sold 38.7% more tickets and earned 47.4% more than Shinkai's acclaimed Weathering With You, marking the strongest opening three days of Shinkai's films.
Actress made his voice acting debut in the film as Sōta Munakata, a young man who embarks on a journey with Suzume as the "Door-Closing Master."
Shinkai (your name., Weathering With You) directed the film and wrote the screenplay. He is also credited with the original story. Toaka performed one of the film's theme songs "Suzume."

The "Animation Is Film Festival" screened the film's world premiere on October 21 in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
The anime film Minami Hamabe
as Sara.Warner Bros. Japan is distributing.
The manga is set in two rival kingdoms that have been in poor relations for a long time. The story centers on Sara and Naranbayar, a princess and young man from either country who meet by chance, and find that they must act as a couple to maintain peace in their realms. Even so, they find that they slowly fall for each other.

The film opened in Japan on December 23.
Shochiku is distributing the film.
The live-action film dropped off the top 10 in its fourth weekend, but still earned 49,381,990 yen ($379,100) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 601,650,030 yen ($4.61 million).
The spinoff anime stayed at #1 in the mini-theater ranking in its second weekend.
The film fell from #2 to #4 in the mini-theater ranking in its second weekend.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC