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Mamoru Hosoda's Belle Film Stays at #2 in 8th Weekend

film stayed at #2 (in of tickets sold) in its eighth weekend. The film earned 95,578,950 yen ($870,400) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 5,791,309,250 yen ($52.74 million). The film has sold 4.17 million tickets.

BELLE licensed the film for North America, and will release the film in English and in Japanese with English subtitles this winter.h7wjkweu4e76

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 Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai - Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunōsen Final fell from #3 to #6 in its third weekend. The film earned 63,106,200 yen ($574,700) from Friday to Sunday and has earned a total of 683,196,300 yen ($6.22 million).

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.

The live-action Tokyo Revengers manga rose from #9 to #7 in its ninth weekend. The film earned 54,199,190 yen ($493,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 4,123,355,070 yen ($37.5 million). The film has sold a total of 3.1 million tickets as of Sunday.

The film was performed the film's theme song "Namae o Yobu yo" (I'll Call Your Name).

Wakui premiered on April 10.

The theatrical screening of Earwig and the Witch film dropped off the top 10 in its second weekend, but still earned 33,677,100 yen ($306,600) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 157,829,200 yen ($1.43 million).

Crayon Shin-chan franchise, dropped off the top 10 in its sixth weekend, but still earned 32,214,100 yen ($293,300) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 1,572,327,700 yen ($14.31 million).

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), Eiga.com, The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web (link 2), comScore via KOFIC

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