JAPAN BOX OFFICE | Demon Slayer breaks all time record for OW

[Issac Newton]

Long Ride

• The Innocents - ¥75M
• Worth - ¥50M
• Where'd You Go, Bernadette - ¥45M
• The Blue Caftan - ¥35M
• On The Adamant - ¥28M
• Dark Glasses - ¥20M
• Hoyaman - ¥20M

[Issac Newton]

Happinet

• Orphan Kills - ¥250M
• Small, Slow But Steady - ¥150M
• And So I'm at a Loss - ¥150M
• Decision To Leave - ¥130M
• Akiha Nakamori 4K - ¥130M
• My Brother, the Alien - ¥100M
• Aftersun - ¥100M
• The Water Flows to the Sea - ¥100M
• Pearl - ¥80M
• Sisu - ¥80M
• Side By Side - ¥60M
• Tsugaru Lacquer Girl - ¥50M

[Issac Newton]

Post- CoVid-19 Imported Animation

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie - ¥14.02B
• Minions: The Rise Of Gnu - ¥4.442B
• Wish - ¥3.60B
• Sing 2 - ¥3.311B
• Elemental - ¥2.70B
• Light Year - ¥1.223B
• Spider-Man: Across The Spidey-Verse - ¥1.11B
• The Boss Baby: Family Business - ¥1.000B
• PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie - ¥930M
• Onwards - ¥870M
• Tom and Jerry - ¥792M
• Encanto - ¥702.39M
• The Bad Guys - ¥360M
• Raya and the Last Dragon - ¥359.85M
• Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway - ¥320M
• White Snake - ¥300M
• PAW Patrol: The Movie - ¥298M
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - ¥243M
• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile - ¥220M
• Sonic: The Hedgehog 2 - ¥183M
• Sonic: The Hedgehog - ¥171M
• Trolls World Tour - ¥171M
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - ¥131M
• The Strange World - ¥130M
• Ron's Gone Wrong - ¥113.09M
• Migration - ¥93M*
• Space Jam: A New Legacy - ¥73M
• DC: League of Super-Pets - ¥57M
• I Am What I Am - ¥40M
• Clifford the Big Red Dog - ¥25M
• Turning Red - ¥13M*

*Currently playing

Edited March 19 by Issac Newton

[MG10]

On 3/19/2024 at 1:19 PM, Issac Newton said:

Post- CoVid-19 Imported Animation

• The Super Mario Bros. Movie - ¥14.02B
• Minions: The Rise Of Gnu - ¥4.442B
• Wish - ¥3.60B
• Sing 2 - ¥3.311B
• Elemental - ¥2.70B
• Light Year - ¥1.223B
• Spider-Man: Across The Spidey-Verse - ¥1.11B
• The Boss Baby: Family Business - ¥1.000B
• PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie - ¥930M
• Onwards - ¥870M
• Tom and Jerry - ¥792M
• Encanto - ¥702.39M
• The Bad Guys - ¥360M
• Raya and the Last Dragon - ¥359.85M
• Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway - ¥320M
• White Snake - ¥300M
• PAW Patrol: The Movie - ¥298M
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish - ¥243M
• Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile - ¥220M
• Sonic: The Hedgehog 2 - ¥183M
• Sonic: The Hedgehog - ¥171M
• Trolls World Tour - ¥171M
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - ¥131M
• The Strange World - ¥130M
• Ron's Gone Wrong - ¥113.09M
• Migration - ¥93M*
• Space Jam: A New Legacy - ¥73M
• DC: League of Super-Pets - ¥57M
• I Am What I Am - ¥40M
• Clifford the Big Red Dog - ¥25M
• Turning Red - ¥13M*

*Currently playing

 

I didn't even remember there was a new Baby Boss movie, at least this time it wasn't candidated for the Oscars 😅

Edited March 20 by MG10

[Issac Newton]

Longest Screening Work

1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train - 1,352 Days
2. In This Corner of the World (Ext. Ver.) - 1,133 Days (counting both ver. - 1,837 Days)
3. In This Corner of the World - 693 Days
4. Top Gun: Maverick - 624 Days
5. RRR - 517 Days
6. West Side Story - 511 Days

Points to be noted!

• List is for works playing for Consecutive Days (Excl. the closure of theatre due to Emergency)
• "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train" is currently playing at Ufotable Cinema
• "RRR" is currently playing at Tsukaguchi SUN SUN Theater
• "Top Gun: Maverick" was playing at Toho Cinema Hibiya continuously until 02/10 when staff decided to remove Weekend Screenings (TGM continue to play at Weekdays)
• For sure, "Sakura no Ondo" is the longest screening work with over 4,400 Days of Screenings (and still playing at Ufotable Cinema) but runtime is of an Episode so I didn't Incl. in the list above.
• "West Side Story" mobilized the most at Marunouchi Piccadilly with 1,525,849 admits (¥449,681,514) back in 1961 - a record that never gonna be defeated!

[titanic2187]

Feel like Oscar win really bump Godzilla-1 late legs to an unexpected level. 7bn is no longer out of reach. Not really the same for how do you live? 

Edited March 20 by titanic2187

[Cookson]

12 minutes ago, titanic2187 said:

Feel like Oscar win really bump Godzilla-1 late legs to an unexpected level. 7bn is no longer out of reach. Not really the same for how do you live? 

Yeah this bump it’s getting is crazy. It pulled in roughly 665k on Wednesday it looks like. I’m assuming a holiday has started in Japan? If so 7b yen is definitely happening. Kinda crazy it’ll end up within 1b yen of Shin Godzilla when/if it hits 7b. 

[Issac Newton]

Strange House

 

月　*****　44388

火　*****　47507

水　*****　85820

木　*****    46780

金　47292

土　59882

日　67084

 

3.4 MW / 3.1 Filmarks / 2.9 Y! 映画 / 2.5 映画.com

 

11.9 pts (59.5% RT)

 

Excellent Weekdays! But, WOM doesn't seem very specific, I wonder where 2nd WKend goes..

[BOfficeStats]

On 3/19/2024 at 11:16 PM, Issac Newton said:

"West Side Story" mobilized the most at Marunouchi Piccadilly with 1,525,849 admits (¥449,681,514) back in 1961 - a record that never gonna be defeated!

Do you have a source for this? I would like to read more.

Edited March 22 by BOfficeStats

[Issac Newton]

In 1950s &1960s, Imported Films were usually screened in Metropolitan Areas such as Tokyo and Osaka for a period of time, and then gradually transferred copies to other parts of the country. This was mainly due to the fact that it was difficult to distribute film at that time, and New Films could still be released in two or three years after they were released Overseas. Tram was developed, and people in non-metropolitan areas, especially students, have the habit of going to Tokyo for leisure and entertainment every few months, which can provide stable passenger flow support; In addition, the first round of cinema ticket prices is very high, more than 4x ATP in Japan, and the Share Ratio is also between 60% and 70%, which is quite a lucrative business for Film Distributors.

 

The most famous of these is the epic blockbuster "Ben-Hur", which was screened at the Tokyo Peking Opera Center in Ginza on April 1, 1960, and ran for 469 consecutive days until its release on July 13, 1961, with a box office of ¥316,733,201 / 954,318 visitors (Official Data - ¥314,543,757 / 950,714 admits), setting a record for the Highest Recorded Gross in a Single Movie Theater at that time. This record was later broken by "West Side Story", which was screened in Marunouchi Piccadilly for 511 consecutive days, from December 23, 1961 to May 17, 1963, with a total of ¥449,681,514 / 1,525,849 admits (Official Data - ¥449,473,123 / 1,525,150 admits).

 

With the popularization of TV in 1970s, the commercial film single-theater screening model came to an end. In 1975, the record-breaking movie "Jaws" was released in 83 cities and 126 theaters on the same day, no longer giving the first round of theaters in big cities an exclusive advantage, with a cumulative box office of ¥7,864,506,210 / 6,824,097 admits in 7 months, and the highest single theater Shinjuku Tokyu Milano (closed in 2014) earned ¥371,348,074 / 298,377 admits in 140 days. In 1982, "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", which broke the record in film history at that time, was released in Japan in the first week of its release in 35 theaters in 9 Metropolitan Areas, and after a limited release of one week, it expanded to 164 theaters in Japan the next week, and after its release 182 days later, it had ¥13.483B and 10.693 million admits on 264 screens in Japan, of which Shinjuku Tokyu Milano, had the best single theater performance, earned ¥722.2M / 526,588 admits. Although the ticket price has set a record with the increase in ticket prices, the release time of the top blockbuster single theater has also dropped to less than half a year, and it has become a legend to exceed 1 million people. @BOfficeStats

 

Box Office Ranking of Single Theaters in Japan (1945-till date)

 

R.	Title	Theater Name	Gross	Admits	Year
1.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	Shinjuku Tokyu Milano	¥722,200,000	526,588	1982
2.	Jurassic Park	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥647,658,500	348,706	1993
3.	Titanic	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥627,553,800	339,759	1997
4.	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menance	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥569,511,800	302,759	1999
5.	Princess Mononoke	Toho Cinemas Nichigeki	¥551,341,600	342,519	1998
6.	Armageddon	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥544,892,300	313,037	1998
7.	Independence Day	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥529,542,300	291,832	1996
8.	West Side Story	Marunouchi Piccadilly	¥449,681,514	1,525,849	1961
9.	Antarctica	Hibiyaeiga	¥447,395,100	357,396	1983
10.	The Godfather	Theater Tokyo	¥396,499,588	581,159	1972

[SchumacherFTW]

Any idea what the last movie to break even 500k admissions at a single location? 

[Issac Newton]

7 minutes ago, SchumacherFTW said:

Any idea what the last movie to break even 500k admissions at a single location? 

Well, that depends on the meaning of single location

 

It's ET if its 1 Theatre, 1 Screen

 

It's Demon Slayer: Mugen Train if its 1 Theatre 12 Screens - Toho Cinema Shinjuku

[Issac Newton]

Grand Cinema Sunshine Ikebukuro

 

Top Gun: Maverick - ¥465,456,170 / 189,905 Admits in 455 Days!

THE FIRST SLAM DUNK - ¥183,105,600 / 97,871 Admits in 272-Days!

 

Two Recent Title legggy run in GDCS

[SchumacherFTW]

1 hour ago, Issac Newton said:

Well, that depends on the meaning of single location

 

It's ET if its 1 Theatre, 1 Screen

 

It's Demon Slayer: Mugen Train if its 1 Theatre 12 Screens - Toho Cinema Shinjuku

I'm happy to take Mugen Train on that one 😁

[enenpoi]

変な家 >¥3b?

[Issac Newton]

5 minutes ago, enenpoi said:

変な家 >¥3b?

Same in line with my Projection 

[BOfficeStats]

On 3/22/2024 at 8:40 AM, Issac Newton said:

In 1950s &1960s, Imported Films were usually screened in Metropolitan Areas such as Tokyo and Osaka for a period of time, and then gradually transferred copies to other parts of the country. This was mainly due to the fact that it was difficult to distribute film at that time, and New Films could still be released in two or three years after they were released Overseas. Tram was developed, and people in non-metropolitan areas, especially students, have the habit of going to Tokyo for leisure and entertainment every few months, which can provide stable passenger flow support; In addition, the first round of cinema ticket prices is very high, more than 4x ATP in Japan, and the Share Ratio is also between 60% and 70%, which is quite a lucrative business for Film Distributors.

 

The most famous of these is the epic blockbuster "Ben-Hur", which was screened at the Tokyo Peking Opera Center in Ginza on April 1, 1960, and ran for 469 consecutive days until its release on July 13, 1961, with a box office of ¥316,733,201 / 954,318 visitors (Official Data - ¥314,543,757 / 950,714 admits), setting a record for the Highest Recorded Gross in a Single Movie Theater at that time. This record was later broken by "West Side Story", which was screened in Marunouchi Piccadilly for 511 consecutive days, from December 23, 1961 to May 17, 1963, with a total of ¥449,681,514 / 1,525,849 admits (Official Data - ¥449,473,123 / 1,525,150 admits).

 

With the popularization of TV in 1970s, the commercial film single-theater screening model came to an end. In 1975, the record-breaking movie "Jaws" was released in 83 cities and 126 theaters on the same day, no longer giving the first round of theaters in big cities an exclusive advantage, with a cumulative box office of ¥7,864,506,210 / 6,824,097 admits in 7 months, and the highest single theater Shinjuku Tokyu Milano (closed in 2014) earned ¥371,348,074 / 298,377 admits in 140 days. In 1982, "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial", which broke the record in film history at that time, was released in Japan in the first week of its release in 35 theaters in 9 Metropolitan Areas, and after a limited release of one week, it expanded to 164 theaters in Japan the next week, and after its release 182 days later, it had ¥13.483B and 10.693 million admits on 264 screens in Japan, of which Shinjuku Tokyu Milano, had the best single theater performance, earned ¥722.2M / 526,588 admits. Although the ticket price has set a record with the increase in ticket prices, the release time of the top blockbuster single theater has also dropped to less than half a year, and it has become a legend to exceed 1 million people. @BOfficeStats

 

Box Office Ranking of Single Theaters in Japan (1945-till date)

 

R.	Title	Theater Name	Gross	Admits	Year
1.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	Shinjuku Tokyu Milano	¥722,200,000	526,588	1982
2.	Jurassic Park	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥647,658,500	348,706	1993
3.	Titanic	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥627,553,800	339,759	1997
4.	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menance	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥569,511,800	302,759	1999
5.	Princess Mononoke	Toho Cinemas Nichigeki	¥551,341,600	342,519	1998
6.	Armageddon	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥544,892,300	313,037	1998
7.	Independence Day	Sapporo Nihon Gekijo	¥529,542,300	291,832	1996
8.	West Side Story	Marunouchi Piccadilly	¥449,681,514	1,525,849	1961
9.	Antarctica	Hibiyaeiga	¥447,395,100	357,396	1983
10.	The Godfather	Theater Tokyo	¥396,499,588	581,159	1972

Thank you for such a detailed post.  The USA/Canada market also used to have exclusive runs for big theaters but Japan looks like it was on an entirely different level.

Edited March 24 by BOfficeStats

[Issac Newton]

4.7│変な家 (317)

 

(Horror Films）

1.1│*2.9│*3.9│*4.5│*4.8│最終5.1 Sana (223)

1.1│*2.2│*2.9│*3.3│**.*│*3.6│*3.6│最終3.6 The Forbidden Play (343)

1.6│*3.1│*4.1│*4.5│*4.7│*4.8│最終4.9 Sore ga Iru Mori (354)

4.7│10.4│14.6│17.4│20.4│21.6│22.4│22.9│最終23.4 Stigmatized Properties (335)

2.0│*5.8│*8.1│10.0│11.3│12.2│12.9│最終14.1 Howling Village (211)

1.5│*3.3│*4.4│*6.0│最終6.8 Suicide Forest Village (421)　

1.2│**.*│**.*│**.*│*5.0│最終5.6 Ox-Head Village (321)　

2,1│*4.3│*5.6│*6.5│最終7.2 Sadako (417)

2.0│*5.0│*6.9│*8.1│*8.8│最終10.0 Sadako vs. Kayako (352)

2.0│*4.1│*5.3│*6.4│*6.9│最終7.2 Sadako 3D2 (232)

2.5│6.2│8.8│10.7│12.0│12.8│13.2│最終13.5  Sadako 3D (214)

1.1│*2.6│*3.8│*4.4│*4.9│最終5.2 The Inerasable (221)

1.5│*4.2│*6.2│*7.7│*8.7│*9.3│*9.7│**.*│10.0│最終10.2 The Complex (162)

0.9│*2.2│*3.2│*4.0│*4.6│*5.1│最終5.7 Ju-on: The Beginning of the End (122)

0.8│最終5.0 Ju-on: The Final (144)

 

Trends are extremely strong. Already ¥1.5B+

Edited March 24 by Issac Newton

[Cookson]

What’s -1 at in yen? 7b reached? 

[Issac Newton]

 

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom

 

¥4,107,911,810 / 2,435,677 admits in 59-Days!