Shinkai's 'your name.'

古蘭特

Makoto Shinkai's your name. anime film stayed at #1 during its 13th weekend at the Japanese box office. It sold 191,000 more tickets for 254 million yen (about US$2.29 million) for a new grand total of 18.9 billion yen (about US$170 million) — just a little over 400 million yen (about US$ 4 million) behind Princess Mononoke's lifetime box office.

古蘭特

克勞德

Shinkai's latest film had topped the Japanese charts for nine straight weekends since it opened on August 26, and in its 10th weekend dropped to #2 to Death Note Light up the NEW world, before regaining the top spot in its 11th weekend. The film had earned 18.5 billion yen (about US$166 million) as of November 16.

克勞德

The film is the seventh highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the fourth highest-grossing Japanese film in Japan, and the fourth highest-grossing anime film in Japan. The three highest-grossing Japanese films in Japan include Spirited Away (30.8 billion yen), Howl's Moving Castle (19.6 billion yen) and Princess Mononoke (19.3 billion yen). Shinkai's your name. is projected to possibly approach 20 billion yen (US$200 million).

克勞德

The live-action Museum film stayed at #2 for its second weekend. The film adapts Ryōsuke Tomoe's Museum (Museum - The Serial Killer is Laughing in the Rain) suspense horror manga, which centers on a series of bizarre murders by a man wearing a frog mask. The man calls himself a vigilante and performs the murders based on themes such as "dogfood punishment," or "punishment of knowing a mother's pain." Detective Sawamura is leading the investigation, but becomes aware that his wife is one of the killer's targets.

克勞德

克勞德

Additionally, the Death Note Light up the NEW world live-action stayed at #4 in its fourth weekend. The live-action Oboreru Knife film fell from #6 to #7 during its third weekend. The Eiga Mahō Tsukai Precure! Kiseki no Henshin! Cure Mofurun! anime film dropped from #7 to #8 in its fourth weekend.

呀橙

Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV: Unmei no Zenya (Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin IV Eve of Destiny), the fourth episode of the Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin anime, debuted at #9. The film screened at 15 Japanese theaters on Saturday.

呀橙

呀橙

The current Char/Sayla arc of the anime ends with the fourth episode. The episode features Char's "fateful encounter" with the girl Lalah Sune, the first Gundam anime's protagonist Amuro Ray, and "the legendary Dr. Minovsky" (whose physics breakthroughs eventually led to mobile suit warfare). The episode also covers the development of the MS-04 and the RX-78 Gundam mobile suits, as well as the first ever mobile suit battle in history.