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NEWS: Miyazaki's The Wind Rises Earns 961 Million Yen in 1st Weekend


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CCharmanderK



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 8:51 pm Reply with quote
Yep, pretty safe to mark this movie off as a success. Anything with THAT incredible an opening box office number can't be anything other than.
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Faiga_Raisa



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:23 pm Reply with quote
CCharmanderK wrote:
Yep, pretty safe to mark this movie off as a success. Anything with THAT incredible an opening box office number can't be anything other than.


It earned 614,820,000 yen less then Ponyo's opening weekend. That's about 64% LESS. The movie may be #1 in the box office but it's nowhere near the sales of Ponyo.

Which I can understand why as Kaze Tachinu is a more of an adult movie and not fantasy fun time kid-friendly. So viewership is definitely limited.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:24 pm Reply with quote
But can Kaze Tachinu beat the mighty Ted, up until now the top-grossing movie in Japan this year?

That's right, the Seth MacFarlane movie about the talking teddy bear has been the most popular movie in Japanese theatres so far this year, and, no, I'm not kidding.

Answer, probably yes, but I'm really impressed that Ted was able to hold the top spot for half a year. It will probably be surpassed by Monsters University by the end of the month, though.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:46 pm Reply with quote
I remember when I was in college, all the Japanese students I knew were huge fans of Family Guy, so I guess it's not too surprising that Seth McFarlane's humor has found broad appeal in Japan.

I actually enjoyed the film myself, tbh. Laughing
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 10:50 pm Reply with quote
^ Actually, I've never seen Ted myself, but I've been getting the urge to just blind-buy it (since I don't have Netflix and Blockbuster's closed).

That wasn't a comment bad/good on Ted nor the general tastes of Japanese moviegoers, I'm just surprised that it surpassed the obvious Hollywood blockbusters in Japan.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:17 pm Reply with quote
Wind Rises is getting mixed reviews, so it did just about well nevertheless.


Kikaioh wrote:

I remember when I was in college, all the Japanese students I knew were huge fans of Family Guy, so I guess it's not too surprising that Seth McFarlane's humor has found broad appeal in Japan.


If ya watch live-action J-comedy, you'd see how zany their humor! Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:37 am Reply with quote
Tenchi wrote:
That's right, the Seth MacFarlane movie about the talking teddy bear has been the most popular movie in Japanese theatres so far this year, and, no, I'm not kidding.


No problem with that, I found Ted to be hilarious. Better that and This is the End than any god awful Sandler film. I have to wonder how the humor translates over to Japanese, since their's sure as hell doesn't translate to English well.

enurtsol wrote:
If ya watch live-action J-comedy, you'd see how zany their humor!


Sure there's some physical comedy, but the stuff like "a shit on my floor" and annually beating up the Jewish kid, and the thunder song, and pretty much all the Flash Gordon hilarity. I just can't see this film being dubbed and working, but I know Japanese releases of western films often are.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:44 am Reply with quote
Huh I heard that right wingers were hating this film and how there was a big controversy in Japan over it.I guess it reflected its sales all right.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:58 am Reply with quote
Take that Monsters! I've hated Miyazaki's films since Howl's Moving Castle. Good movie, bad Miyazaki, BUT I've hated Pixar since Cars 2. Brave was terrible and so was Cars 2 and Monsters University. I'll think I'll have to fly to Japan to watch this. I'm not going wait until late 2015 to watch a shitty dub, with stupid, inexperienced Hollywood A-Listers, rather than Crispin Freeman, Tara Strong, Steve Blum, Mary McGlynn(where is she) Tom Kenny or even Stephanie Sheh, who could all do a much better job than any of Disney's efforts, bar Hamill as Muska. Animaze would smoke Disney at dubbing. Even Animaze's weakest dubs such as Code Geass and Outlaw Star are better than all of Disney's dub of Ghibli films combined. The Mononoke dub was complete and utter trash and so will The Wind Rises. Speaking of which, why does it take so long for Ghibli movies to reach NA? It takes a few months to reach Hong Kong. I remember watching Kiki in 1990, in the Chinese dub, MONTHS after it came it in Japan.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 6:00 am Reply with quote
danilo07 wrote:
Huh I heard that right wingers were hating this film and how there was a big controversy in Japan over it.I guess it reflected its sales all right.


The only controversy is coming from 2ch, so in my mind, no controversy ;p I will love this film and buy it just like every Ghibli film.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:31 am Reply with quote
YamadaKun wrote:
Take that Monsters! I've hated Miyazaki's films since Howl's Moving Castle. Good movie, bad Miyazaki, BUT I've hated Pixar since Cars 2. Brave was terrible and so was Cars 2 and Monsters University. I'll think I'll have to fly to Japan to watch this. I'm not going wait until late 2015 to watch a shitty dub, with stupid, inexperienced Hollywood A-Listers, rather than Crispin Freeman, Tara Strong, Steve Blum, Mary McGlynn(where is she) Tom Kenny or even Stephanie Sheh, who could all do a much better job than any of Disney's efforts, bar Hamill as Muska. Animaze would smoke Disney at dubbing. Even Animaze's weakest dubs such as Code Geass and Outlaw Star are better than all of Disney's dub of Ghibli films combined. The Mononoke dub was complete and utter trash and so will The Wind Rises. Speaking of which, why does it take so long for Ghibli movies to reach NA? It takes a few months to reach Hong Kong. I remember watching Kiki in 1990, in the Chinese dub, MONTHS after it came it in Japan.


I agree completely, the Miyazaki films deserve to be treated with much more respect, therefore they should get actual voice actors for the parts. I'd love to see Steve Blum, Tom Kenny, Tara Strong, John DiMaggio, Jeremy Shada, any of them make it to the big screen as VA's, its a very underrated art in my opinion. Like I met Ricki Simmons who played Gir on "Invader Zim" about ten years ago, and he says his voice is still not the same because he yelled so much to voice his character. And all the voice actors I've met, they've always said how much they enjoyed voicing the characters, and how they put their whole heart into the characters. I just wish Hollywood could appreciate their enthusiasm, passion and talent more by casting them as VA's in the Studio Ghibli movies.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:57 am Reply with quote
Faiga_Raisa wrote:
CCharmanderK wrote:
Yep, pretty safe to mark this movie off as a success. Anything with THAT incredible an opening box office number can't be anything other than.


It earned 614,820,000 yen less then Ponyo's opening weekend. That's about 64% LESS. The movie may be #1 in the box office but it's nowhere near the sales of Ponyo.

Which I can understand why as Kaze Tachinu is a more of an adult movie and not fantasy fun time kid-friendly. So viewership is definitely limited.


I don't know where you're taking your numbers from but they're wrong...

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Opening Weekends (2-Day)
¥1.483 billion ($14.0 million) / 1,104,980 :: Howl's Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, Nov. 2004)
¥1.034 billion ($9.8 million) / 812,557 :: Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, July 2008)
¥1.005 billion ($8.9 million) / 810,000 :: Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, July 2001)
¥960.9 billion ($9.8 million) / 747,451 :: The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, July 2013)


And Ponyo ended up with a ¥15.5 billion total so TWR will easily top 10 billion for sure and become the highest grossing film of the year.
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Tenchi



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 1:03 pm Reply with quote
I'd be very surprised if Kaze Tachinu wasn't going to be the top-grosser in Japan this year, a Hayao Miyazaki movie being number one the year it's released is more or less inevitable, but Monsters University is doing exceptionally well in Japan and quite possibly will end up in second place for the year. Monsters, Inc. ended up number 3 for 2002, and that's only because it had competition from two international mega-franchise films, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and Star Wars: Attack of the Clones.

Personally, I liked Monsters University just fine, but Monsters, Inc. is my favourite Pixar film.
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neshru



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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 3:25 pm Reply with quote
enurtsol wrote:
Wind Rises is getting mixed reviews, so it did just about well nevertheless.

According to that article the film is getting "mixed reviews" for the simple fact that it's not for kids. So whatever lol.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 24, 2013 7:06 pm Reply with quote
neshru wrote:
enurtsol wrote:
Wind Rises is getting mixed reviews, so it did just about well nevertheless.

According to that article the film is getting "mixed reviews" for the simple fact that it's not for kids. So whatever lol.


Indeed. With that logic Pokemon movies would deserve better reviews than 'Grave of the fireflies'...
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