"Kirin no Tsubasa" / "Always: Sunset on Third Street 3" / "Nihon Rettou"

In this week’s Japan Box Office Report, “ALWAYS 3” comes out on top for the third consecutive weekend, while the documentary “Nihon Rettou” and the American film “Tower Heist” fight for the third place.

The top remains unchallenged thanks to the very slowly decreasing appeal of “ALWAYS San-chome no Yuhi ‘64” (English title: “Always: Sunset on Third Street 3“). It already left the threshold of 2,000,000,000 Yen (26.01 million USD) behind it and is in for a very successful and long run in the chart.

“Kirin no Tsubasa: Gekijouban Shinzanmono” also didn’t give away its second place from last week. With a cumulative revenue of 700,000,000 Yen (9.1 million USD) it’s doing more than okay at the box office.

On third place opened the Japanese nature documentary, “Nihon Rettou Ikimono-tachi no Monogatari“, at least in terms of sold tickets. 68,228 people saw the film over the weekend, resulting in a revenue of 80,214,800 Yen (1.04 million USD). Of course it cannot compete with last year’s BBC documentary “One Life“, but it sure has it very own charm.

The American film “Tower Heist” opened on fourth place with a revenue of 107,931,800 Yen (1.4 million USD), which would actually be enough to be on third place, but it only sold 66,108 tickets. Overall it’s an ordinary start of a somewhat popular film from Hollywood.

“Arakawa Under the Bridge” opened on the eight place.

TOHO is dominating the charts again. The whole top five is handled by this distributor and with “DOCUMENTARY of AKB48” there are a total of six TOHO films in the top ten.

As usual, you can check out all the trailers of the new Japanese films below the box office ranking!

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	Rank/Last		Title	Weeks
	01 (01)		Always: Sunset on Third Street 3	03
	02 (02)		Kirin no Tsubasa: Gekijouban Shinzanmono	02
	03 (00)		Nihon Rettou Ikimono-tachi no Monogatari	01
	04 (00)		Tower Heist	01
	05 (03)		Robo-G	04
	06 (04)		Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie	03
	07 (05)		Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	08
	08 (00)		Arakawa Under the Bridge THE MOVIE	01
	09 (07)		DOCUMENTARY of AKB48 Show must go on	02
	10 (06)		J. Edgar	02

(Note: The ranking is not based on the revenue, but the number of sold tickets!)

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> “Nihon Rettou” [Documentary]
Narration: Aiba Masaki, Nagasawa Masami, Gori, and Kuroki Hitomi

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> “Arakawa Under the Bridge” [Youth Drama, Fantasy]
Cast: Hayashi Kento, Kiritani Mirei, Oguri Shun, Yamada Takayuki, and more

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> “Mameshiba Ichiro 3D” [Human Dog Drama]
Cast: Sato Jiro, Usuda Asami, Takahashi You, Takahashi Naozumi, and more

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> “Tokyo Playboy Club” [Action Drama]
Cast: Omori Nao, Mitsuishi Ken, Usuda Asami, Fuchikami Yasushi, and more

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> “NINIFUNI” [Human Drama]
Cast: Miyazaki Masaru, Yamanaka Takashi, Momoiro Clover, Tamai Hideki, and more

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> “SHINOBIDO” [Action Jidaigeki]
Cast: Satsukawa Aimi, Ken Naoko, Hasegawa Hatsunori, Yuki Ryoichi, and more

(International Trailer)

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> “Berserk: Ougon Jidai Hen” [Anime, Fantasy, Action]

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> “Seirei Yakyoku” [Youth Drama, Horror, Fantasy]
Cast: Odajima Nagisa, SATOMI, Meme, Suzuki Shoichi, and more