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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Will Be Released in U.K. Cinemas This Week
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0) is released in cinemas this weekend, with the main cinema opening on Friday March 18, following preview screenings on March 16 and 17. Crunchyroll is already streaming an English-subtitled trailer:
The film opened in Japan on December 24. It earned 2,694,128,150 yen (about US$23.5 million) in its first three days, and topped the box office chart for its opening weekend. The film has so far sold 7,191,107 tickets for 9,839,644,200 yen (about US$85.1 million) in the 38 days since its opening.
The film is based on Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School) manga prequel story, with MAPPA animating again and TOHO distributing. Viz Media released the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 manga in January 2021, and it describes the story:
Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a Curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary Curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat Curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the Curse that haunts him?
Megumi Ogata voiced the main character Yuta Okkotsu, and Kana Hanazawa voiced the character Rika Orimoto.
The Jujutsu Kaisen television anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes.
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