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2nd Kaguya-sama: Love is War Live-Action Film Opens at #1
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
The live-action Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen Final ranked at #1 in its opening weekend. The film sold 195,000 tickets and earned 252 million yen ($2.29 million) in its first three days (including Friday). It sold 124,500 tickets and earned 164 million yen ($1.49 million) during Saturday and Sunday.
The first film sold 1.8 million tickets and earned 2.2 billion yen ($20.04 million) during its 2019 run.
The sequel to the first live-action film of opened on August 20.
The film portrays the events of the original manga's "Sports Festival and Cultural Festival" arc, focused on Yu Ishigami and Tsubame Koyasu. The arc was also portrayed in the second season of the anime.
The manga released the anime on Blu-ray Disc in February 2020.
Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen, the second season of the television anime, premiered in April 2020. Funimation dubbed both seasons of the anime.
The anime will shipped on May 19.
film dropped from #2 to #3 in its sixth weekend. The film earned 161,570,250 yen ($1.47 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 5,215,649,400 yen ($47.53 million). The film sold 110,000 tickets over the weekend, and has sold a total of 3.76 million tickets.
BELLE licensed the film for North America, and will release the film in English and in Japanese with English subtitles this winter.
Hosoda (Dragon Pilot: Hisone and Masotan, The Naked Director) is the film's music director and composer.
My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising.
The film sold about 720,000 tickets to earn about 940 million yen ($8.51 million) in its opening weekend.
In the story of My Hero Academia THE MOVIE: World Heroes' Mission, a mysterious organization dedicated to the destruction of people with Quirks has issued a threat and set bombs all over the world. Pro Heroes and those in Hero Internships scramble to find the bombs. Deku, Bakugo, and Todoroki encounter Rody, a boy living in a mobile home in their designated area of Oseon, and end up working with him.
Original manga creator insert song "Flowers."
The live-action Tokyo Revengers manga dropped from #5 to #6 in its seventh weekend. The film earned 73,137,110 yen ($666,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 3,845,704,250 yen ($35.04 million).
The film was performed the film's theme song "Namae o Yobu yo" (I'll Call Your Name).
Wakui premiered on April 10.
Crayon Shin-chan franchise, dropped from #4 to #7 in its fourth weekend. The film earned 59,800,750 yen ($544,900) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,394,860,950 yen ($12.71 million).
The film was originally slated to opening on on July 30.
The film's story begins with Shinnosuke and friends experiencing a one-week stay as part of the "defense force" of Tenkatōitsu Kasukabe Private Academy (nicknamed "Tenkasu"), an elite boarding school that is istrated by a state-of-the-art AI. But when Kazama is attacked, with his intelligence reduced, and strange bite marks left on his butt, the mood begins to change. The Kasukabe defense force s forces with the school's dropout student council president Chishio Atsuki to form a group of detectives and shed some light on the mystery.
Macaroni Enpitsu performed the film's theme song "Hashirigaki" (Scribbling).
The live-action A Girl on the Shore (Umibe no Onna no Ko) manga debuted at #3 in the mini-theater ranking in its opening weekend. The film opened in Japan on August 20.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), Eiga.com, comScore via KOFIC
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