Is Japan its only market really making any money right now?

Apparently The North American opening weekend potentially of Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero could surpass the entire gross run in Japan from the looks of it. Has there been any other Japanese film where it gross way more overseas than in Japan itself?

It's not too shocking. It's very impressive, of course, anime has become more mainstream in the US and hopefully it continues to crow, but the exchange rate makes this quite easy.

The JPY has been at a 22-24-year-low versus the USD for nearly half a year now (absurdly strong dollar from inflation versus a currency in a market with almost no inflation for 30 years = one of the worst exchange rates in the world, perhaps even the worst).

And Dragon Ball is the most recognizable anime in the Western world. Broly did more overseas than in Japan, and Resurrection F was about 50/50. So, it's going to be pretty "easy" for Super Hero to earn more overseas than in Japan right now since the exchange rate has cost it so much in USD.

The first two Pokémon movies also earned more overseas than in Japan. Stand By Me, Doraemon and its sequel earned more overseas than in Japan. The second My Hero Academia movie was about 50/50. There might be a couple other films as well.

Should the box office of this re-released pokemon films be added to their totals in the franchise list? Or are special editions to be kept apart?

Last week's re-release (the 2002 film) was reported separately. I don't know if there's some rule where a re-release has to play for a certain amount of time to be included (the 25th anniversary Pokémon rereleases are for one-week-only) in the original gross or what though.

However, 2020 saw a number of re-releases due to the pandemic delaying films, and those totals (while counted separately) were added to the original gross at the end of the year. So, I guess we'll have to see what happens later on and if Toho releases a report on them. We only got the four day gross for last week's film (which opened on Thursday for Obon Festival), and I suspect we'll only get the Fri.-Sun gross for this week's film (the 2003 film). The 2007 film is up next week.

Hi Corpse,
Assuming Minions 2 and Jurassic World 3 both fall between 45 and 50% this weekend, how much total do you see them ending up by around end of Sept which is possibly when their runs will be over? Thanks!

I'm expecting ~¥6 billion (currently ~$44m) for Jurassic World 3, and ~¥4.5 billion (currently ~$34m) for Minions 2. JW3, as long as it stabilizes after the big ~40/45% post-Obon drop, should be able to get there. Minions 2 is a little iffy, depending on what happens when it enters September. Sometimes young-skewing films collapse when September begins, which could lower that projection a good bit.

So that means that JW3 will just miss $1b ww assuming no new expansions?

I asked earlier if it was not playing anywhere else now, or rather, if Japan was the only market where it was really making anything.

If Japan is it... then I suppose it won't get to $1 billion worldwide. Based on The Numbers, it was at $980.03 million as of this past Sunday. It's earned about $2.5m more from Japan (Mon.-Fri.) and $260,000 (Mon.-Thur.) from the US. That'd put it around $982.8 million going into this weekend.

Japan will do around $1.8m this weekend, while the US will do about $525,000? So that's $2.3 million or so, presumably taking its WW total to $985.1 million after this Sunday. (This is assuming it's done in every other market.)

I think Japan will add about $7-9 million more from here, so that's $992-994 million WW. And the US, I guess another $1.5m or something? So, I suppose the final total will be $994-996 million WW.

It will get over $1 billion. It's still playing in other markets. Last weekend it did $1.4 million in 85 markets (not including Japan), so there's still money for Universal to push it over the coveted mark.

One Piece Film Red - Daily Tracker

Sat. (08/06): ¥1,232,095,230 ($9.1 million) / 869,407
Sun. (08/07): ¥1,022,141,800 ($7.6 million) / 710,145
Mon. (08/08): ¥591,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 430,000
Tues. (08/09): ¥466,000,000 ($3.5 million) / 340,000
Wed. (08/10): ¥525,000,000 ($3.9 million) / 415,000
Thur. (08/11): ¥593,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 430,000 *Holiday* / *Start of Obon Festival*
Fri. (08/12): ¥548,000,000 ($4.1 million) / 395,000
Sat. (08/13): ¥833,137,000 ($6.2 million) / 573,195
Sun. (08/14): ¥663,963,000 ($5.0 million) / 456,805
Mon. (08/15): ¥586,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 428,000
Tues. (08/16): ~¥435,000,000 ($3.3 million) / ~315,000
Wed. (08/17): ~¥400,000,000 ($3.0 million) / ~295,000 *End of Obon Festival*
Thur. (08/18): ~¥270,000,000 ($2.0 million) / ~190,000
Fri. (08/19): ~¥265,000,000 ($2.0 million) / ~185,000
Sat. (08/20): ~¥365,000,000 ($2.7 million) / ~250,000
Sun. (08/21): ~¥420,000,000 ($3.1 million) / ~290,000

Cumulative Total (16-Days): ~¥9,215,302,810 ($68.7 million) / ~6,605,000

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Nice Sunday bump. As mentioned, Sunday increases used to be pretty common, but have become less so in recent years (while Saturdays have grown), so this is quite good. It's even the biggest Sunday increase (of those that managed an increase) in the Top 10 this weekend.

More achievements as of Sunday:

-Second Fastest Film to reach ¥9 billion.
-Second Fastest Film to reach 6.5 million admissions.

The road to ¥10 billion (uber-blockbuster status) begins now, and it's likely to be a short road as it's almost certain to exceed the milestone next weekend (probably on Saturday). Although, if this total is close to the actual, there is a possibility it reaches it even sooner on Friday. Next weekend's giveaway might deflate Thursday/Friday though as the fans just wait until Saturday. Either way, as long as it does it by next Monday, it'll become the second fastest film to reach ¥10 billion (and 7 and 7.5m admissions).

Here is the list of the Fastest Films to ¥10 billion with One Piece's projected days on when it'll get there (sometime from next Friday-Sunday, with Saturday, day 22, being most likely).

Fastest Films to ¥10 billion (Uber-Blockbuster Status):

10 days - Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020)
21-23 days - One Piece Film Red (2022) *Projection*
25 days - Spirited Away (2001)
28 days - Your Name. (2016)
28 days - Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
30 days - Bayside Shakedown: Save the Rainbow Bridge! (2003)
31 days - Ponyo (2008)
33 days - Howl's Moving Castle (2004)
34 days - Weathering With You (2019)
35 days - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
37 days - Frozen (2014)
37 days - Alice in Wonderland (2010)
40 days - Frozen II (2019)
41 days - Aladdin (2019)
42 days - Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)
42 days - Beauty and the Beast (2017)
43 days - Princess Mononoke (1997)
44 days - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azakaban (2004)
45 days - Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
47 days - Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
50 days - Avatar (2009)
51 days - The Last Samurai (2003)
52 days - Toy Story 3 (2010)
52 days - Finding Nemo (2003)
53 days - The Wind Rises (2013)
53 days - Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
53 days - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
57 days - The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
65 days - Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
74 days - Toy Story 4 (2019)
74 days - Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
78 days - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2004)
82 days - Titanic (1997)
107 days - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
132 days - Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time (2021)

I found this fact about Tokyo Olympiad box office admission that if you count its admission only from theaters it is only 7.5 million admission but the 16 million other admissions that took place in schools and public halls would take it to 23.5 million.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Olympiad#Box_office

Hi Corpse, I've been following this thread for a few years and first of all want to thank you for the amazing work you've done to track and document everything! I just want to ask how the latest Kamen Rider movie did, and if you have a list about how the franchise had been doing in the box office over the years. Or if you're willing to, just Tokusatsu box office numbers history since there are so many crossover movies.

≪『ONE PIECE FILM RED』興行成績≫
公開16日間での興行成績　動員人数：6,651,711人　興行収入：9,281,365,450円
公開劇場数：全国501スクリーン（IMAX:39scr 4D:80scr　DOLBY CINEMA:6scr）
興行推移（※東映からの発表のみをまとめています）
・8／8（月）発表：オープニング成績：動員157万人、興行収入22.5億円　2022年オープニング作品週末土日2日間動員・興行収入No.1
・8／13（土）イベント内発表：13日(土)の初回上映をもって、動員360万人、興行収入50億円突破
・8／16（月）発表：公開10日間で動員人数：505万人、興行収入：70億円突破（※シリーズ記録塗り替え）
・8／18（木）イベント内発表：公開から13日目で動員570万人、興行収入80億円突破
・≪参考作品≫2012年公開　『ONE PIECE FILM Z』興行収入：68.7億

With these actuals and monday, could hit 10b on thursday even.

First, thank you!

Second, I have Kamen Rider included on the Biggest Film Franchises list, but I haven't updated it in a while. Kanroji here has helped make it more accurate and with gathering numbers for some older franchises, too, so I'll get around to update it sometime in the coming weeks.

The latest film released in July was somewhere around ¥400m, I believe, before it fell outside tracking range. The Kamen Rider franchise has been struggling in recent years. It has younger appeal, so it could sort of being explained in 2020/2021 (since younger skewing films suffered the most, almost exclusively), but they should have recovered by now, I would think. Hopefully it can see a revival in the future.

Chaplainfan: I knew about the admissions split for Tokyo Olympiad, but I always saw the 19.5m as the overall total, not 23.5m. 23.5m was Spirited Away's original run, and there are reports of it surpassing Tokyo Olympiad's 19.5m, so I wonder if there's some error there giving it Spirited Away's admissions?

It's possible. At the very least now, I think Friday has become the likely day.

I underestimated the weekend by ¥33m and 19,000 admissions. And last Tues.-Fri. by, interestingly enough, also ¥33m but about 27,000 admissions (don't have exact admissions as of Mon., so have to estimate a little there).

So far, it's come in above what I've estimated every day after the opening weekend. So, after I adjust last week's daily estimates up a bit, I'll be estimating a little higher moving forward.

And thanks for sharing the breakdown there, Kanroji!

One Piece Film Red - Daily Tracker

Sat. (08/06): ¥1,232,095,230 ($9.1 million) / 869,407
Sun. (08/07): ¥1,022,141,800 ($7.6 million) / 710,145
Mon. (08/08): ¥591,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 430,000
Tues. (08/09): ¥466,000,000 ($3.5 million) / 340,000
Wed. (08/10): ¥525,000,000 ($3.9 million) / 415,000
Thur. (08/11): ¥593,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 430,000 *Holiday* / *Start of Obon Festival*
Fri. (08/12): ¥548,000,000 ($4.1 million) / 395,000
Sat. (08/13): ¥833,137,000 ($6.2 million) / 573,195
Sun. (08/14): ¥663,963,000 ($5.0 million) / 456,805
Mon. (08/15): ¥586,000,000 ($4.4 million) / 428,000
Tues. (08/16): ¥443,000,000 ($3.3 million) / 322,000
Wed. (08/17): ¥408,000,000 ($3.1 million) / 297,000 *End of Obon Festival*
Thur. (08/18): ¥278,000,000 ($2.1 million) / 197,000
Fri. (08/19): ¥274,000,000 ($2.1 million) / 192,000
Sat. (08/20): ¥380,450,000 ($2.8 million) / 260,000
Sun. (08/21): ¥437,550,000 ($3.2 million) / 299,000
Mon. (08/22): ~¥215,000,000 ($1.6 million) / ~155,000

Cumulative Total (17-Days): ~¥9,496,365,450 ($70.8 million) / ~6,806,711

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Last week's estimates have been adjusted (upward again) to account for the higher actual total as of Sunday (08/21). I'm going to a tad bit higher with the estimates this week, which makes sense because it's been coming in a little higher with actuals with every official update after its opening weekend.

With the bump with actuals, and a very healthy Monday, it's moved its estimated date of reaching ¥10 billion up a day to this Friday. However... there's a good chance it can do it even sooner on Thursday, its 20th day in release. That's... massive. Demon Slayer aside, it'll have reached the uber-blockbuster milestone 5 days faster Spirited Away, and 8 days or more than every other film in history.

Hi Corpose
Can you post the weekend numbers for JW3 and Minions 2 and their drop compared to last weekend when you get a moment? Thanks!

The acuals will be released (and posted) later today (~6 hours from this post). The preliminary numbers for Jurassic World 3 are: ¥268m weekend, ¥4.988 billion total. No weekend number for Minions 2 yet, but its total is up to ¥3.861 billion.

While I'm here, bullza! DBS: Super Hero actually got an update, its total is at ¥2,492,580,150. So, unless it's just dropped everywhere this week, it'll get above ¥2.5 billion. Guessing the final will be ¥2.51/2.52 billion.

Interesting only ¥7.5 million to go. Didn't think there'd be anymore updates.