Over the weekend (April 12 to April 14) the box office welcomed a new number one film, “Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram.” The newest edition to the Detective Conan franchise, the film debuted with 2,274,000 moviegoers and box office revenue of 3,352 million yen, a 106% increase from last year’s Detective Conan film “Black Iron Submarine”, making it the biggest debut in series history. Going down one spot from last week, “Henna Ie” continued to show strong results with 167,000 moviegoers and 222 million yen at the box office. The cumulative total is now at 3.8 million moviegoers and box office revenue of over 3.8 billion yen. “Oppenheimer” was able to rise to the 3rd place spot and now records a cumulative total of 690,000 moviegoers and box office revenue of over 1.1 billion yen making it the only foreign movie released in Japan this year that has exceeded 1 billion.
Japan Box Office Ranking Top 10 (April 12 to April 14)
- Detective Conan: The Million-dollar Pentagram (NEW)
- Henna Ie (A Strange House) (week 5) (↓ 1)
- Oppenheimer (week 3) (↑ 1)
- Haikyuu!! Battle of The Garbage Dump (week 9) (↓ 1)
- Doraemon: Nobita’s Earth Symphony (week 7) (↓ 3)
- Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Freedom (week 12) (↑ 3)
- April Come She Will (week 4) (↓ 2)
- Godzilla Minus One (week 24) (↓ 1)
- Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (week 3) (↓ 3)
- The First Omen (week 2) (↓ 2)
