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Kingdom: Taishogun no Kikan (Return of the Common), the fourth live-action Kingdom movie, dropped from #1 to #2 on the Japanese field workplace in its third weekend. The movie bought 364,000 tickets from Friday to Sunday, incomes 561 million yen (roughly US$3.75 million). The movie has earned a cumulative whole of 4.6 billion yen (roughly US$30.83 million) and bought a complete of three.13 million tickets.

The movie opened on July 12. It bought 1,065,000 tickets and earned 1.629 billion yen (roughly $10.28 million) in its first three days. The movie bought 1.46 million tickets in its first 4 days, together with Monday (the Marine Day vacation in Japan), and earned 2.2 billion yen (roughly $13.89 million) in that point.

Shinsuke Satō is as soon as once more directing the brand new movie.

The movie covers the Shi Ka (Zi Xia) arc of the manga and the Battle of Bayou, the primary time Shin (Xin) and Ō Ki (Wang Qi) stood collectively on the battlefield to repel the invasion of the highly effective Chō (Zhao) from the north. Anne (Anne Watanabe) returns to the forged because the lead character Shi Ka (Zi Xia). Different forged members embrace Kataoka Ainosuke VI as Fuu Ki (Feng Ji), Koji Yamamoto as Chō Sō (Zhao Zhuang), Yuki Yamada as Man Goku (Wan Ji), Eri Murakawa akin to You Li (Yū Ri), Hinako Sakurai as Dong Mei (Tō Bi), and Yuki Araki as Kyō.

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

Shinsuke Satō (stay motion Gantz, Dying Observe Mild up the NEW world, Bleach) returned as director. Hara and Tsutomu Kuroiwa (One Piece Film Goldstay motion Black butler, GANTZ:O) returned to write down the script.

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Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa (Paper Umbrella), the primary anime movie within the new Mononoke movie undertaking, which premiered on Friday and was already at quantity 7 in its debut weekend.

The undertaking will embrace three movies. The second movie is named Gekijōban Mononoke Chapter Two: Hinezumi (can be translated as “Kaso”, that means “hearth rat”) will premiere in Japan on March 14, 2025.

Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa was set to premiere final 12 months, however was delayed. Along with saying the delay in February 2023, the movie’s employees additionally introduced that Takahiro Sakurai would not tackle the position of the Medication Vendor as initially deliberate. Hiroshi Kamiya as a substitute, he voices the primary character, the Medication Vendor, within the movie.

Kenji Nakamura returned to take cost Mononoke movie, with a manufacturing on Twin engine. Kitsuneko Nagata was the character designer, and Yuichi Takahashi tailored these designs for animation and served as chief animation director. Taku Iwasaki composed the music. EOTA animated the movie.

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Boy band Strawberry Prince‘S Gekijōban SutoPuri Hajimari no Monogatari: Strawberry Faculty Competition!!!! (STPR Origin Story the Film: Strawberry Faculty Competition!!!!) The movie dropped from #3 to #8 in its second weekend.

The movie premiered on July 19. In its first three days, it grossed 178,821,570 yen (roughly $1.17 million).

The group members are voiced within the movie.

The leisure persona of the group chief Nana Mori is credited because the anime’s chief manufacturing supervisor and scheduling producer, and his off-stage persona Masato Kashiwabara is credited with the unique story. Naoki Matsuura (Wild Wild) directed the anime at LIDEN FILMSAnd Chika Suzumura (Burn The Witch) wrote the script. Yumi Nakamura (Wild Wild, Wotakoi: Love is tough for Otaku) designed the characters.

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The anime movie of Chainsaw Man Creator Tatsuki Fujimoto‘S “Wanting again“one-shot manga dropped from #6 to #9 in its fifth weekend.

The movie opened in Japanese theaters on June 28. The movie ranked #2 in ticket gross sales (however #1 in weekend grosses) in its opening weekend, promoting 135,000 tickets for $227 million (roughly $1.4 million) in its first three days.

Yumi Kawai And Mizuki Yoshida star within the movie. Kawai performs Fujino, a fourth-year scholar who attracts four-part comedian strips for the varsity newspaper. Yoshida performs Kyomoto, Fujino’s classmate who skips faculty.

Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Flip-flappers) directed the anime and was additionally answerable for the screenplay and character designs. Oshiyama’s Studio Durian produced the movie. Singer you are sleeping performs the movie theme “Mild track” by composer Haruka Nakamura.

The Personal Camen Rider Gatchādo the Future Dawn/ Bakujo Sentai Bunbunja Gekiyo Bun! Promise the circuit Tokusatsu double options have been at #5 of their opening weekend.

“Kuro no Shinryaku” (Darkish Invasion), the primary movie for Yamato and Towa Ni: Insurgent 3199 (Star blowers: Spaceship Yamato 3199), the following undertaking within the Spaceship Yamato remakes, fell out of the highest 10 within the second weekend.

Soreike! Anpanman: Baikinman for Ehon no Lulun (Baikinman and Lulun from the image e book), the thirty fifth movie within the Anpanman franchisedisappeared from the highest 10 in its fifth weekend.

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