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38th Doraemon Film Tops Box Office With 843 Million Yen

Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Takarajima (grossing domestic film in Japan last year.

Doraemon the Movie: Nobita's Treasure Island also sold more tickets on Saturday and Sunday than Disney's Black Panther film, which ranked #2 over the two days. (Black Panther opened in Japan two days earlier on Thursday, March 1.)

The latest Doraemon film is inspired by Treasure Island novel. In the film's story, Doraemon, Nobita, Shizuka, Gian, and Suneo set out on an adventure in the Caribbean Sea. Nobita is the captain of a ship and fights his enemies on board. Shizuka gets kidnapped, and a storm impedes their journey. Mini-Dora robots help Nobita and friends on their journey. When the adventurers finally find the mysterious Treasure Island, they discover it is more than just an ordinary island.

The 86,688,808 yen ($820,900). The film opened on Saturday in 74 theaters.

Aoi Bungaku Series anime's Jigoku Hen (Hell Screen) arc. In Bungo Stray Dogs, he has the power to transform and manipulate his cloak into a monster-like entity. Together, some of these writers solve mysteries as part of the "Armed Detective Agency," while others appear as antagonists.

The film's story involves a mystery case of power s around the world suddenly committing suicide one after another, in all cases after a strange fog appears at the scene. At a request from Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, a power who calls himself "collector," and a man suspected of being tied to the incident.

The live-action film opened on Saturday in 163 theaters.

Tetsuo Shinohara directed the film, with a script by Mahiro Takasugi.

The manga centers on Shima Sumitomo. Shunned in her school in Tokyo, and with attempts at befriending her third stepfather failing, she decides to move in with her natural father in Sapporo, Hokkaido. There, in her new high school, she meets two handsome men named Gen Tatebayashi and Wao Sakurai, though it seems like the more she gets close to them, the more she is shunned again.

sold 32,000 tickets in 76 theaters to earn 48 million yen ($450,240) in its opening weekend.

The story begins with Maquia, who is from a family where all the stop aging in their mid teens. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful, she feels lonely. Their peace is shattered when an army invades, seeking the secret to her people's immortality. Leilia, the most beautiful girl in her clan, is taken away, and the boy Maquia has secret feelings for disappears. Maquia is able to escape, but she loses her friends and her home. Wandering alone in the forest, she finds Erial, a baby boy who has lost his parents. The story follows the changing relationship between the two as Erial grows up and Maquia does not.

The film is the directorial debut of anime screenwriter Okada (anohana). She also wrote the film's scripts at P.A. Works.

The live-action Hitsuji no Ki (The Sheep's Tree or The Scythian Lamb) manga also fell off the top 10 in its fifth weekend. It had ranked #7 in its fourth weekend.

Kamen Rider Ex-Aid Trilogy: Another Ending Part III - Kamen Rider Genmu VS Laser, the third film in a trilogy that provides an epilogue to the Kamen Rider Ex-Aid series, ranked at #1 in the mini-theater ranking in its first weekend.

Sources: Variety (Mark Schilling), Eiga.com, Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC