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2007

Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten. 2007/08/11 ~ 2007/08/12

Posted by JMaruyama at 3:17pm.

Posted in Box Office News.

Wanted to first off thank Mike McStay and Jon Pais for giving us the weekly Korean Box Office tallies every week.  Keeping in spirit with their work, I wanted to go ahead and start up a Box Office report for the Japanese side. 

I’m not sure if I can get the exact box office money information generated each week but can at least note the Top Ten as reported by the Eiga.com movie site. 

Hopefully I can make this a weekly thing as well.

Weekend Japan Box Office Top Ten. 2007/08/11 ~ 2007/08/12

1 Ocean’s Thirteen (Warner Bros.)
2 Harry Potter Tou Fushichou No Kishidan (Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix; Warner Bros.)
3 Transformers (UIP)
4 Remy No Oishi Resteran (Ratatouille; Disney)
5 Gekijouban Pocket Monster Diamond Pearl/Dearuga vs Valkia vs Takurai (Toho)
6 Saiyuki (Toho)
7 Gekijouban Kamen Rider Den-Oh - Ore Tanjou! (Toei)
8 Gekijouban Naruto - Naruto Shippuden (Toho)
9 Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard; 20th Century Fox
10 Kaidan (Shochiku)

As Japanese students are on summer break the Japanese box office is dominated by a number of kid friendly fair including popular “eiga ban” (movie versions) of various TV shows.  Two noteworthy anime will be debuting in the coming weeks - ”Evangelion Shin Gekijouban - Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone” (9/1) and ”Vexille - 2077 Nihon Saikoku” (8/18) which has been heavily reported on TwitchFilm.

Other movies in release this month are Yamashita Atsuhiro’s ”Tennen Kokeko”, Jia Zhangk’s Sanxia Hoeren/Still Life” and “Yoidore Shijin Ni Narumae Ni/Factorum”.

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Reader Comments

  1. Blake 08/15/2007 @ 6:32pm

    Thanks for this report! Can’t wait to read the upcoming editions as well.

  2. nitty 08/15/2007 @ 6:34pm

    I like these lists for the simple fact they show people have bad taste world wide.I’m so sick of hearing Americans being the only ones that support crappy films.

  3. Ard Vijn 08/15/2007 @ 10:38pm

    I like the Japanese titles for Western movies: Ratatouille suddenly sounds like a Ghibli!

    ("Remy No Oishi Resteran”, does that mean:
    Remy in the Restaurant?
    Remy is not allowed in the Restaurant?
    Remy wants a restaurant?
    Remy doesn’t have a Restaurant?)

  4. blauereiter 08/15/2007 @ 11:05pm

    Word for word, it means Remy’s delicious restaurant. Western films often get different titles here because the orginal is often confusing for the Japanese viewers.

  5. quartet4 08/16/2007 @ 7:07am

    Awesome.  I think it’d be cool if all the box office reports could be put in a sidebar so we could see which movies are hits in different parts of the world.  Then again, you already have a lot of stuff in your sidebar so it probably wouldn’t fit.

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