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Odex Reveals Singapore Opening Date of 3 Anime Films
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex revealed the Singapore opening dates of the One Piece Film Gold, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Bakusui! Yumemi World Dai Totsugeki, and Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions anime films during the Funan Anime Matsuri event last week.
One Piece Film Gold opens on August 25. Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Bakusui! Yumemi World Dai Totsugeki opens on September 15. Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions opens on December 1.
One Piece Film Gold will open in Japan on July 23 on 743 screens, which is the largest for any Japanese film. The film will screen with English and Chinese subtitles in five cities in Japan from July 23 to August 5. The film is also getting screenings in 3D, 4DX, and MX4D.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Dark Side of Dimensions opened in Japan on April 23. The film opened at #6 in the Japanese box office. The film sold the highest number of pre-sale tickets of any Toei film.
Eiga Crayon Shin-chan Bakusui! Yumemi World Dai Totsugeki, the franchise's 24th film, opened in Japan on April 16. The film ranked #2 in the Japanese box office in its opening weekend, topped by Detective Conan: The Darkest Nightmare. Wataru Takahashi (Crayon Shin-chan films 17-23) returned to direct the new film, and comedian Hitori Gekidan (actor in Train Man, Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress) wrote the film's script along with Takahashi. Voice actors Akiko Yajima (Shin-chan), Miki Narahashi (Misae Nohara), Keiji Fujiwara (Hiroshi Nohara), and Satomi Koorogi (Himawari) returned to voice characters in the film.
