Japan Box Office Report – April 16th/17th

Continuing it’s history of success, the new “Detective Conan” movie once again managed to debut at the number one position for it’s opening weekend. The anime series is celebrating it’s 15th anniversary this year and what would be a better way to celebrate than to open at number one on a total of 332 screens. 453,618 people felt attracted to …


Japan Box Office Report – April 9th/10th

It’s the second weekend to be on the top for the new “Kamen Rider” movie,” while SP” continued to secure it’s spot near the top and “Tangled” actually managed to reenter the top 3 thanks to the word-of-mouth recommendations of those that already went to see this charming Disney animation.

“Doraemon” dropped down to the fourth place, but since it’s still …


Japan Box Office Report – April 2nd/3rd

“OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let’s Go Kamen Riders“, the movie that is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Kamen Rider franchise immediately took over first place with a opening weekend box office revenue of 3.6 million USD.

Therefore Okada Junichi and his “SP” team had to take a step down to second place, but that isn’t too bad. After all, …


Japan Box Office Report – March 26th/27th

“SP: The Motion Picture The Final Episode” managed to stay in first place and many other movies were able to secure their place in the box office as well. Furthermore, there were no new entries in the top 10 this week.

After 16 days since it opened, the “SP” movie has now broken through 100,000 viewers which equals to a box …


V6’s Okada Junichi expresses thoughts about earthquake at “SP Kakumei Hen” stage greeting

Okada Junichi, member of the popular all-male group V6, was at a stage greeting on March 26th for the movie, “SP Kakumei Hen“. The film, which stars Okada himself, is based off an adaptation of a popular Fuji TV drama of the same title.

During the stage greeting at Tokyo’s TOHO Cinemas SCALA-ZA, the focus …


Japan Box Office Report – March 19th/20th

“SP: The Motion Picture The Final Episode” managed to stay on top of this weekend’s box office and even broke through the 1 billion Yen ($12.3 million USD) mark. “Doraemon” bravely secured second place and also already managed to earn more than 1 billion Yen after two weeks and three weekends.

Despite this small success, the movie industry is greatly suffering …


Japan Box Office Report – March 12th/13th

Despite the big tragedy that fell upon Japan on Friday and the coming days, months, years – many theaters in the unaffected regions of Japan were open and screening movies as usual. The overall box office suffered a lot but nobody in the movie industry would be dumb enough to voice their trivial sorrows.

That aside, it wasn’t a …


Teaser revealed for V6 + ☆Taku Takahashi’s collaboration track

Pop group V6 and m-flo’s producer, ☆Taku Takahashi, will be teaming up to deliver a theme song for the upcoming movie, “SP: Kakumei Hen”!

The song will be titled “SP: Break The Wall feat.V6 & ☆Taku Takahashi (m-flo)”. V6 will provide the vocals, while DJ Taku has been put in charge of producing the track. Indeed, DJ ☆Taku was specifically requested …


“SP Kakumei Hen” may be remade into a Hollywood film

On February 24th, V6 member Okada Junichi, actor Tsutsumi Shinichi, and actress Maki Youko attended a private showing of the film “SP Kakumei Hen”, where they shared their thoughts on the upcoming movie and revealed that discussions were in the works for an American version of the film.

“SP” is an adaptation of the popular Fuji TV drama of the same …


“SP” to make a television return prior to the second movie

Fuji TV has announced that the popular “SP” series starring V6 member Okada Junichi will get a new drama special prior to the release of the second movie, “SP: Kakumei Hen” (aka “SP: Revolution” or “SP: The Motion Picture The Final Episode”).

The drama special, called “SP: Kakumei Zenjitsu” (aka “SP: The Day Before The Revolution”), is going to …