The live-action movie adaptation of Uketsu‘s Hen na Ie (The Unusual Home) novel stayed at #1 for its fourth consecutive weekend. The movie offered 289,000 tickets for 371,338,900 yen (about US$2.43 million) over the weekend. The movie has offered a complete of two,778,000 tickets for a cumulative incomes of three,459,486,550 yen (about US$22.64 million).

The movie opened on March 15. The movie offered 344,000 tickets and earned 474 million yen (about US$3.13 million) in its first three days.

The movie stars Shōtarō Mamiya (live-action Blue Big, Tokyo Revengers) as Amamiya, Jirō Satō (live-action Gintama) as Kurihara, and Rina Kawaei (live-action Ajin) as Yūki.

Asukashinsha revealed the primary novel in July 2021, and the second novel on December 15. The novel tells the thriller of a home with a room that had no doorways, no home windows, and is tucked away, making it seem like it was only a wall. However the home holds some very darkish secrets and techniques.

Kyō Ayano launched novel’s manga adaptation on Ichijinsha‘s comedian HOWL net manga service in January 2023. Seven Seas licensed the manga beneath the title The Unusual Home.

The 2024 Doraemon movie Eiga Doraemon: Nobita no Chikyū Symphony (Doraemon the Film: Nobita’s Earth Symphony) movie rose again up from #3 to #2 in its sixth weekend on the Japanese field workplace. The movie offered 182,000 tickets and earned 222,435,610 million yen (about US$1.45 million) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has offered a complete of three,095,000 tickets to earn 3,683,223,110 yen (about US$24.09 million).

The movie opened at #1 on March 1. The movie offered 538,000 tickets from Friday to Sunday for 655,555,580 yen (about US$4.37 million) in its first weekend.

The brand new movie has a music theme, as Doraemon and associates go on an journey to satisfy new buddies, connect with folks with music, and save the world from a disaster.

Kazuaki Imai (Doraemon the Film: Nobita’s Treasure Island, Doraemon the Film: Nobita’s New Dinosaur) directed the movie. Teruko Utsumi, a author for the Doraemon tv anime, penned the script for the movie. The tv anime’s present solid members reprised their roles for the movie.

Gekijōban Haikyu!! Gomi Suteba no Kessen (Haikyu!! the Film: Decisive Battle on the Rubbish Dump), the primary movie within the two-part Haikyu!! Last sequel movie undertaking, dropped from #2 to #3 in its eighth weekend. The movie offered 142,000 tickets for 213,157,870 yen (about US$1.39 million) over the weekend for a cumulative complete of 6,483,000 tickets offered for 9,267,707,450 yen (about US$60.63 million).

The movie premiered in Japan on February 16 and can also be screening in IMAX. Susumu Mitsunaka (first, third Haikyu!! tv anime) each directed and wrote the script for the movie.

The movie offered 1,529,000 tickets and earned 2,230,465,540 yen (about US$14.83 million) in its first three days of screening. The movie now has the largest opening weekend for a movie thus far this 12 months in Japan, beating Cellular Go well with Gundam Seed FREEDOM anime movie’s 1,065,983,130 yen opening weekend earnings.

Godzilla Minus One, Takashi Yamazaki‘s new movie in TOHO‘s Godzilla franchise, stayed at #7 in its twenty third weekend within the field workplace. The movie earned 75,786,810 yen (about US$496,000) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has earned a complete of seven,306,634,850 yen (about US$47.82 million).

The movie opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which was the anniversary of the primary Godzilla movie’s November 3, 1954 launch. The brand new movie screened at The Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF) because the closing movie of final 12 months’s occasion on November 1.

The movie offered 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$6.93 million) in its first three days within the Japanese field workplace. The movie offered 14.7% extra tickets and earned 22.8% extra in its first three days than the final live-action Japanese Godzilla movie, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi‘s Shin Godzilla, did in its first three days in 2016. The movie has earned over 6.01 billion yen (about US$39.9 million) and offered 3.92 million tickets as of March 3, its 122nd day of screening in Japan. In response to Kōgyō Tsūshinsha, the movie is now the #1 live-action movie launched in Japan in 2023 (this consists of all live-action movies that opened in Japan in 2023, however nonetheless earned income in 2024).

Godzilla Minus One additionally received the Greatest Visible Results award within the 96th Academy Awards on March 10. It’s the first Japanese movie to win on this class, and the primary Godzilla movie to be nominated for an Oscar.

The Cellular Go well with Gundam Seed FREEDOM anime movie dropped from #8 to #9 in its eleventh weekend. The movie earned 62,210,690 yen (about US$407,100) from Friday to Sunday. It has offered 2,564,398 tickets for earned a cumulative complete of 4,320,960,010 yen (about US$28.2 million).

The movie is screening in 353 cinemas in Japan, and added 4DX, MX4D, and Dolby Cinema screenings beginning on February 9.

The movie opened at #1 within the Japanese field workplace, promoting 634,182 tickets for 1,065,983,130 yen (about US$7.20 million) in its first three days, marking the Gundam franchise‘s highest three-day opening in field workplace earnings. Cellular Go well with Gundam Seed FREEDOM opened in Japan on January 26. The movie is deliberate to display in 56 nations and territories.

Cellular Go well with Gundam Seed director Mitsuo Fukuda directed the movie at Bandai Namco Filmworks. Fukuda additionally co-wrote the script alongside together with his late spouse Chiaki Morosawa and Liu Goto. Hisashi Hirai (Cellular Go well with Gundam Seed) designed the characters.

The live-action movie of Fujimomo‘s Lovesick Ellie (Koi Wazurai no Ellie) manga dropped from #9 to #10 in its fourth weekend. The movie earned 36,709,800 yen (about US$240,200) in its fourth weekend, for a cumulative incomes of 510,254,460 yen (about US$3.33 million).

The live-action movie opened in Japan on March 15. The movie earned 128,171,750 yen (about US$858,600) in its first three days.

Ryubi Miyase (live-action Ushijima the Mortgage Shark, Ya Boy Kongming!) stars as Akira Ohmi, whereas Nanoka Hara (Suzume‘s title heroine, live-action Wave, Take heed to Me!, Do not Name It Thriller) stars as Eriko Ichimura. The 2 had beforehand co-starred within the live-action tv collection Night time Physician and Murai in Love.

Miki Kōichirō (live-action 2020 Yowamushi Pedal) directed the movie, with scripts by Satoko Okazaki.

Sources: Gundam press launch, Kōgyō Tsūshin (hyperlink 2), comScore through KOFIC