Provider Toho announced yesterday that the first feature film of the
mega-hit franchise Yo-Kai Watch: Tanjyo no HimitsudaNyan! Last year's
top-grossing film Frozen spent 17 days. As of January 4, the film's
present gross is 5,544,234,000 yen on 4,813,685 entries, which has
already surpassed the two Rurouni Kenshin live-action movies and Studio
Ghibli film When Marnie Was There released last year.
The time travel-themed film opened on 415 screens across Japan on December 20, rekindling Japanese film's opening weekend record since 2001 when the computation approach was changed to box-office gains from revenue. Toho's first expectation for the movie's entire gross was around 6 billion yen, but it appears Jibanyan can do much more.
Meanwhile, Disney animation's latest 3D animation film Big Hero 6, titled Baymax in Japan, topped the
It's earned 4.1 billion yen on 3.26 million ticket
sales in total.
The time travel-themed film opened on 415 screens across Japan on December 20, rekindling Japanese film's opening weekend record since 2001 when the computation approach was changed to box-office gains from revenue. Toho's first expectation for the movie's entire gross was around 6 billion yen, but it appears Jibanyan can do much more.
Meanwhile, Disney animation's latest 3D animation film Big Hero 6, titled Baymax in Japan, topped the
It's earned 4.1 billion yen on 3.26 million ticket
sales in total.
