Stay-Motion Do not Name It Thriller Movie Stays at #1 for 2nd Straight Weekend

The live-action movie of Yumi Tamura‘s Do not Name It Thriller (Thriller to Iu Nakare or Don’t say thriller) manga stayed at #1 in its second week. The movie bought 372,000 tickets and earned 521,053,770 yen (about US$3.49 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has bought a complete of 1.49 million tickets to earn a cumulative whole of two,042,091,740 yen (about US$13.71 million).

The movie facilities on the manga’s “Hiroshima Arc,” which seems within the manga’s second to fourth volumes. The “Hiroshima Arc” begins when Kunō travels to Hiroshima, and will get concerned in a combat for the Kariatsumari household’s inheritance.

The movie opened on September 15, and bought 609,600 tickets to earn 850,483,760 yen (about US$5.71 million) in its first three days. Masaki Suda reprised his function as protagonist Totonō Kunō from the manga’s live-action sequence.

Hiroaki Matsuyama, Tomoko Aizawa, and Ken Arai all return from the sequence as director, scriptwriter, and music composer, respectively.

The manga follows mystery-solving school pupil Totonō Kunō. Initially of the story, the police convey him in for questioning on suspicion of the homicide of his classmate.

Eiga Precure All Stars F, the twentieth anniversary movie within the Precure All Stars crossover anime movie sequence, dropped from #2 to #3 in its second week. The movie bought 159,000 tickets and earned 198,720,170 yen (about US$1.33 million) from Friday to Sunday, The movie has bought a complete of 693,000 tickets to earn a cumulative whole of 846,807,950 yen (about US$5.68 million).

Eiga Precure All Stars F opened on September 15, and options all 77 Precure magical ladies, from the franchise‘s first installment in Futari wa Fairly Treatment, to the newest ongoing installment Hovering Sky! Precure (Hirogaru Sky! Precure).

The movie bought about 357,000 tickets to earn 437,456,060 yen (about US$2.93 million) on the Japanese field workplace in its opening three-day weekend. That is the very best opening weekend field workplace for the Precure franchise.

Maaya Sakamoto and Atsumi Tanezaki play characters that had been newly created for the movie. Sakamoto performs Treatment Supreme/Prim, whereas Tanezaki performs Pūka.

The final time that the movie sequence gathered characters from the whole franchise‘s historical past was 2018’s Hugtto! Precure Futari wa Precure All Stars Recollections.

A brand new Precure movie will open in 2024.

Gekijо̄ban IDOLiSH7 LIVE 4bit BEYOND THE PERiOD, the theatrical anime live performance for the IDOLiSH7 multimedia franchise, jumped again onto #5 in its nineteenth weekend. The movie earned 104,618,490 yen (about US$702,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of two,726,622,131 yen (about US$18.31 million).

The live performance opened in Japan on Might 20 and earned 220 million yen (about US$1.58 million) in its opening weekend. The 16 forged members of the IDOLiSH7, TRIGGER, Re: vale, and ŹOOĻ models reprised their roles from the anime sequence and video games.

Hiroshi Nishikiori (Argonavis from BanG Dream!) and Kensuke Yamamoto (Trigun Stampede VFX artwork director) directed the anime at Orange. IDOLiSH7 creator Bunta Tsushimi wrote the screenplay. Arina Tanemura (IDOLiSH7, Full Moon o Sagashite) is credited for the unique character design. Hitomi Miyazaki designed the characters. Eiji Inomoto (Trigun Stampede) was the CG chief director.

The live-action Gran Turismo movie, tailored from the PlayStation online game sequence, dropped from #4 to $6 in its second weekend. The movie earned 95,308,180 yen (about US$640,000) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 405,202,800 yen (about US$2.72 million). The movie earned 174,899,710 yen (about US$1.17 million) in its first three days in Japan.

Columbia Footage developed the movie. Jason Corridor (American Sniper) penned the script. Asad Qizilbash and Carter Swan from PlayStation Productions are producers alongside Doug Belgrad and Dana Brunetti. The movie stars David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, Archie Madekwe, Darren Barnet, Geri Halliwell Horner, and Djimon Hounsou.

The Metropolis Hunter franchise‘s new anime movie Metropolis Hunter The Film: Angel Mud (Gekijо̄ban Metropolis Hunter: Tenshi no Namida) dropped from #5 to #7 in its third weekend. The movie earned 77,505,170 yen (about US$520,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative whole of 790,952,656 yen (about US$5.31 million).

The movie ranked at #1 in its opening weekend. The movie bought 210,000 tickets for 324,949,388 yen (about US$2.21 million) in its first three days. The movie open in Japan on September 8.

Returning voice actors embrace Akira Kamiya as Ryo Saeba, Kazue Ikura as Kaori Makimura, Harumi Ichiryūsai as Saeko Nogami, Tesshō Genda as Umibōzu, and Mami Koyama as Miki. Additionally returning within the movie are the three Kisugi thief sisters from the Cat’s Eye anime. Keiko Toda and Chika Sakamoto are coming back from the unique Cat’s Eye tv anime as Hitomi and Ai. Rica Fukami performs Rui. (Toshiko Fujita, who performed Rui within the authentic Cat’s Eye anime, handed away in December 2018.)

Metropolis Hunter franchise director Kenji Kodama directied the brand new movie at Dawn and The Reply Studio Co., Ltd. Yasuyuki Mutō (Deadman Wonderland) wrote the screenplay. Aniplex is distributing the movie.

The movie revolves across the previous of Ryo Saeba and the demise of his outdated accomplice Hideyuki Makimura. It is going to additionally revolve round Angel Mud, which was additionally essential within the authentic sequence.

Hayao Miyazaki‘s newest function movie The Boy and the Heron (Kimi-tachi wa Dō Ikiru ka, or actually How Do You Stay?) stayed at #9 on the Japanese field workplace in eleventh weekend. The movie earned 57,300,300 yen (about US$384,800) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has bought a complete of 5.53 million tickets to earn a cumulative whole of 8,253,644,200 yen (about US$55.42 million).

It’s now the #75 highest-grossing movie in Japan, and the #20 highest-grossing anime movie in Japan. It surpassed Tales from Earthsea, Yo-kai Watch: The Film, and the live-action Hana Yori Dango Remaining movie.

The movie bought 1.003 million tickets and earned about US$13.2 million in its first three days in Japan. The movie bought 1.353 million tickets and earned 2.149 billion yen (about US$15.53 million) in its Friday-Monday lengthy weekend (July 17 was the Marine Day vacation in Japan).

The movie opened concurrently on IMAX with its normal launch in Japan on July 14. The movie earned greater than Miyazaki’s celebrated Academy Award-winning 2001 movie Spirited Away in its first 4 days, and earned 50% greater than his 2013 movie The Wind Rises. The movie exceeded US$1.7 million from 44 IMAX screens, which is a brand new three-day opening report, in keeping with leisure information web site Deadline.

The movie is the primary Studio Ghibli movie to get a simultaneous IMAX launch. The movie can be screening in Dolby Atmos, Dolby Cinema, and DTS:X.

GKIDS licensed the movie, and it’ll launch it in North American theaters later this yr.

Miyazaki is credited with the unique work, along with directing the movie and writing the script. Takeshi Honda (Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea, Rebuild of Evangelion movies) is the animation director. Joe Hisaishi (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro) composed the music. Studio Ghibli co-founder Toshio Suzuki is the producer. Kenshi Yonezu (Chainsaw Man, My Hero Academia, March is available in like a lion) performs the theme tune “Chikyūgi” (Globe).

Kingdom: Unmei no Honō (Flames of Future), the third live-action movie based mostly on Yasuhisa Hara‘s Kingdom manga, stayed at #10 in its ninth weekend. The movie earned 52,306,960 yen (about US$351,200) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has earned a cumulative whole of 5,379,915,980 yen (about US$36,13 million).

The movie opened in Japan on July 28 and bought 703,530 tickets to earn 1,050,708,610 yen (about US$7.39 million) in its first three days. The movie now has the very best opening weekend amongst all three Kingdom movies, and now additionally has the very best opening (when it comes to ticket gross sales) amongst live-action movies in Japan in 2023.

The movie covers the manga’s Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc and the Battle of Bayou — the primary time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood on the battlefield collectively, to fend off the invasion by the mighty Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Anne Watanabe) joined the forged because the pivotal character Shi Ka (Zi Xia). Different new forged members embrace Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Kōji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji), Eri Murakawa as You Li (Yū Ri), and Hinako Sakurai as Dong Mei (Tō Bi).

Kento Yamazaki, Ryō Yoshizawa, Takao Osawa, and Kanna Hashimoto all reprised their respective characters Shin (Xin), Ei Sei (Yin Zheng), Ō Ki (Wang Qi), and Ka Ryō Ten (He Liao Diao), respectively, from the 2 earlier movies. Nana Seino, Hiroshi Tamaki, and Kōichi Satō from the second movie additionally reprised their respective characters Kyо̄ Kai, Sho Hei Kun (Lord Changping), and Ryo Fui (Lu Buwei).

Shinsuke Satō (live-action Gantz, Demise Observe Gentle up the NEW world, Bleach) returned as director. Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Movie Gold, live-action Black Butler, GANTZ:O) returned to put in writing the script.

Mari Okada and MAPPA‘s authentic anime movie Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Kōjō (Alice and Therese’s Illusory Manufacturing unit) opened at #8 within the Japanese field workplace for the September 15-17 weekend, however dropped off the highest 10 within the September 22-24 weekend.

The movie premiere on September 15, and stars Junya Enoki as 14-year-old protagonist Masamune Kikuiri, Reina Ueda as Masamune’s classmate Mutsumi Sagami, and Misaki Kuno because the mysterious lady Itsumi.

The movie facilities on third-year center faculty pupil Masamune, who lives in a city the place time has stopped as a result of a sudden explosion at a steelworks manufacturing unit has sealed off all exits to the city. So as to hopefully in the future return to regular, the residents of the city are forbidden from altering, and so they dwell out their gloomy on a regular basis lives. Masamune’s enigmatic classmate Mutsumi leads him in the future to the fifth blast furnace of the steelworks manufacturing unit, and there they meet a woman who’s wild like a wolf and who can not discuss. The assembly of Masamune and these two ladies upsets the steadiness of the world. The unstoppable “love impulse” of the girls and boys who’re uninterested in their on a regular basis lives begins to destroy the world.

Okada wrote and directed the movie, which MAPPA initially introduced in 2021. Okada can be credited with the unique work. Okada additionally wrote a novel of the movie that Kadokawa Bunko launched on June 13.

Tadashi Hiramatsu served because the assistant director, and Yuriko Ishii (One other, Persona -trinity soul-) designed the characters and served as chief animation director. Kazuki Higashiji (Angel Beats!, Hanasaku Iroha – Blossoms for Tomorrow, The Piano Forest) directed the artwork. All the above animators collaborated on Okada’s Maquia – When the Promised Flower Blooms movie. Masaru Yokoyama (Her Blue Sky, Horimiya) composed the music. Warner Bros. is distributing the movie.

Studio Set off‘s re-screening of Gurren Lagann the Film – The Lights within the Sky Are Stars, the second of two compilation movies of Gainax‘s Gurren Lagann anime, ranked at #1 within the mini-theater rating in its opening weekend.

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2, link 3, link 4), comScore through KOFIC