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Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc Opens Theatrically at #1, The First Slam Dunk Drops to #3
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The screenings opened last Friday, February 3, in 418 theaters in Japan. The screenings include episodes 10 and 11 of screen in Malaysia on February 18-19.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc will premiere on television in April with a one-hour special.
Director ufotable, and the main cast are all returning for the new arc.
The film is now the 43rd 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 is now the #22 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 film opened on January 27 in Japan and earned 85,896,750 yen ($659,000) in its first three days from Friday to Sunday.
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 anime Lonely Castle in the Mirror
(Kagami no Kojō) novel fell of the top 10 in its seventh weekend.The spinoff anime dropped from #1 to #2 in the mini-theater ranking in its third weekend.
The film did not rank last weekend on the mini-theater ranking, as it screened for only two weeks.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
