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Live-Action Tokyo Revengers Film Also Opens in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Warner Bros. Japan announced on Tuesday that its live-action film of Ken Wakui's Tokyo Revengers manga will also open theatrically in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Thailand.
The film opened in Japan on July 9. The film was slated to open in Japan last October, but was delayed to 2021 due to the effects of the spread of the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Japan. The production halted filming in April 2020 due to COVID-19.
The film earned 696,434,440 yen (about US$6.31 million) in its first three days to top the Japanese box office in its opening weekend. The film has so far earned a cumulative total of 1,503,037,850 yen (about US$13.72 million).
Tsutomu Hanabusa (live-action Kakegurui, Miseinen dakedo Kodomo ja Nai) directed the film. Rock band SUPER BEAVER performed the film's theme song "Namae o Yobu yo" (I'll Call Your Name).
Wakui launched the manga in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in March 2017, and Kodansha published the manga's 23rd compiled book volume on July 16. The manga is also inspiring a television anime that premiered on April 10. Muse Asia is streaming a simulcast of the anime in Southeast Asia.
Source: The Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
