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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Stays at #2, 3rd Mononoke Film Opens at #6 in Japan
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie — Nintendo, Illumination, and Universal Pictures' sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie — stayed at #2 in its sixth weekend. The film sold 151,000 tickets and earned 205,436,210 yen (about US$1.28 million) from Friday to Sunday. The film has sold a total of 5.18 million tickets and earned a cumulative total of 7,136,840,950 yen (about US$44.61 million).
The film opened at #1 at the Japanese box office. The film sold 1.121 million tickets and earned 1,601,093,600 yen (about US$9.96 million) in its first three days.
The film opened in the United States and the United Kingdom on April 1, in other select territories on April 3, and in Japan on April 24.
Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and Nintendo representative director and fellow Shigeru Miyamoto again produced Illumination and Universal Pictures' new film. Directors Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic and screenwriter Matthew Fogel returned from the previous film for the new project. Brian Tyler returned to compose the soundtrack.
Detective Conan: Highway no Datenshi (Detective Conan: Fallen Angel of the Highway), the Detective Conan franchise's 29th film, stayed at #4 in its eighth weekend. The film sold 144,000 tickets and earned 219,896,000 yen (about US$1.37 million) from Friday to Sunday, and has sold a total of 8.65 million tickets to earn a cumulative total of 12,764,160,700 yen (about US$79.79 million).
The film is now the fourth consecutive film in the franchise to earn more than 10 billion yen, beginning with 2023's Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine film.
The film sold 2,318,009 tickets and earned 3,502,137,800 yen (about US$21.9 million) in its first three days, making a new opening-weekend record for the franchise, and debuting at #1 at the Japanese box office.
The new film centers on the character Chihaya Hagiwara, member of the Kanagawa Prefectural Police and the leader of its motorcycle division. Miyuki Sawashiro now voices the character, replacing the late Atsuko Tanaka. The movie also features Kanagawa inspector Jugo Yokomizo, teenage detective Masumi Sera, Chihaya's late younger brother Kenji Hagiwara, and Kenji's Police Academy classmate Jinpei Matsuda.
Gekijōban Mononoke Dai-San-Shō: Hebigami (Mononoke the Movie: Chapter 3: Snake God), the third installment of the Mononoke franchise's film trilogy, opened at #6. The film earned 117,426,720 yen (about US$734,000) in its first three days.
Hiroshi Kamiya reprises his role as the Medicine Seller, with other returning cast from the previous two films.
Kenji Nakamura returns from the second film as the general director, and Tomoaki Koshida is directing the third film at Studio Kafka and EOTA. Aina The End performs the theme song "No Epilogue."
Mononoke The Movie: Phantom in the Rain (Gekijōban Mononoke: Karakasa), the first film, premiered in Japan in July 2024. Netflix is streaming the film. The film won the Axis: Satoshi Kon Award for Excellence in Animation for best animated feature film at 2024's Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal. Aina The End performed the theme song "Love Sick."
Mononoke the Movie Trilogy: Chapter 2: The Ashes of Rage (Gekijōban Mononoke Dai-Ni-Shō: Hinezumi) opened in Japan in March 2025. Aina The End performed the film's theme song "Hana Musō."
The live-action film of Yuuto Suzuki's Sakamoto Days manga dropped from #5 to #7 in its fifth weekend. The film earned 76,493,700 yen (about US$478,100) from Friday to Sunday. It has sold a cumulative total of 1.84 million tickets and has earned a cumulative total of 2,550,880,200 yen (about US$15.94 million).
The film ranked at #4 in its opening weekend. The film sold 346,000 tickets and earned 478 million yen (about US$3.05 million) in its first three days. In its first eight days in the Japanese box office, which spanned the entirety of the Golden Week holidays, the film sold 1.14 million tickets and earned 1.5 billion yen (about US$9.58 million).
The film opened in Japan on April 29. The film is also screening in the panoramic ScreenX format in 27 theaters all over Japan.
Viz Media and MANGA Plus are publishing the manga in English digitally.
Snow Man member Ren Meguro stars as Tarō Sakamoto, and Fumiya Takahashi plays Shin Asakura. Aya Ueto plays Tarō Sakamoto's wife Aoi Sakamoto, while Miyu Yoshimoto plays Tarō Sakamoto's daughter Hana Sakamoto. Other cast members include Mayū Yokota as Lu Shaotang, Junki Tozuka as Heisuke Mashimo, Akihisa Shiono as Kashima, and Keisuke Watanabe as Natsuki Seiba. Takumi Kitamura, Yūsei Yagi, and Meru Nukumi play Order assassins Nagumo, Shishiba, and Osaragi, respectively.
Yūichi Fukuda (live-action Gintama, Under Ninja) directed and wrote the script for the film. Keiya Tabuchi (Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, live-action Attack on Titan, Kamen Rider Amazons) directed the action. CREDEUS is producing the film with Avex Pictures.
The live-action film of Mitsuhiro Mizuno and Akira Ōtani's Shōjiki Fudōsan (The Honest Realtor) manga dropped from #6 to #9 in its third weekend. The film earned 56,229,960 yen (about US$351,500) from Friday to Sunday, and has earned a cumulative total of 528,914,820 yen (about US$3.30 million)
The film ranked at #4 in its opening weekend, and earned 179,443,360 yen (about US$1.13 million) in its first three days.
The film opened in Japan on May 15.
The first season of the live-action TV series adaptation launched in 2022, with a special episode in 2023, and the second season aired in 2024.
Mizuno and Ōtani debuted the series based on a concept by Takeshi Natsuhara in Shogakukan's Big Comic magazine in 2017. Shogakukan shipped the 24th compiled book volume on May 8.
Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2), comScore via KOFIC
