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Gundam SEED FREEDOM Opens at #1 in Japan, Live-Action Golden Kamuy Drops to #2
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The previous record holder, earned a total of 2.23 billion yen ($15.1 million by current conversion).
The 1982 Mobile Suit Gundam III: Encounters in Space anime film holds the record for highest Japanese box office revenue in the Gundam franchise with a total of about 2.3 billion yen (US$15.5 million by current conversion).
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed FREEDOM opened in Japan on Friday. The film is planned to screen in 56 countries and territories.
Hisashi Hirai (Mobile Suit Gundam Seed) designed the characters.
perform the ending song "Sarigiwa no Romantics" (Romantics Upon Parting), the first new music from the duo in two decades.
The film topped the Japanese box office in its opening weekend of January 19-21. The film sold 356,000 tickets and earned 533,848,690 yen ($3.62 million) in its first three days.
The film opened in Japan on January 19.
ACIDMAN performed the theme song "Kagayakerumono" (Those Who Shine).
Satoru Noda launched the manga in green-lit.
The film opened in Japan on December 22. The film is an all-new work with an original story. The film sold 866,000 tickets and earned 1.224 billion yen ($8.61 million) in its first three days.
screen the film in North America in 2024.
Original manga creator CloverWorks again animated the film.
New cast for the film include Shunsuke Takeuchi as Type F.
The film opened in Japan on November 17 and sold 111,500 tickets and earned 160,106,620 yen ($1.07 million) in its first three days.
Hidenobu Kikuchi as Mizuki, a salaryman who heads to a cursed village under secret orders.
Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 ("Godzilla Day"), which was the anniversary of the first Godzilla film's November 3, 1954 release. The new film screened at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing film of this year's event on November 1.
The film sold 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen ($6.93 million) in its first three days in the Japanese box office. The film sold 14.7% more tickets and earned 22.8% more in its first three days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla film, Shin Godzilla
, did in its first three days in 2016.The Fukuyama Masaharu Fukuyama's Nippon Budokan 2023 concert, earned 47,760,250 yen ($324,100) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 229,593,480 yen ($1.55 million).
The live-action Let's Go Karaoke!
(Karaoke Iko!) manga dropped off the top 10 in its third weekend, but it still earned 64,000,580 yen ($434,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 339,941,490 yen ($2.30 million).Detective Conan franchise, dropped off the top 10 in its fourth weekend.
Given manga, ranked at #1 in the mini-theater rankings in its opening weekend.
The Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children Complete 4K Remaster film dropped from #1 to #2 in the mini-theater ranking in its second weekend.
Colorful na Majō ~ Kadono Eiko no Monogatari ga Umareru Kurashi ~ (Colorful Witch: Kiki's Delivery Service
author Eiko Kadono, opened at #3 in the mini-theater rankings.Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3), comScore via KOFIC
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