Chiikawa Movie Holds First Place as No New Films Enter Japan's Top 10
The Chiikawa film's third weekend outperformed its second, a rare upward swing driven by repeat-viewer incentives like the pullback car gift and farewell screenings, while the entire top 10 stayed closed to new releases.
Reporting from 1 source: Cinema Today.
The weekend box office ranking for August 21-23, released by Kogyo Tsushinsha, shows "Movie Chiikawa: The Secret of the Mermaid Island" in first place with 825,800 attendees and 1.242 billion yen, pushing its cumulative totals past 7.66 million attendees and 11 billion yen. No new films entered the top 10, and the top four slots were unchanged from the previous week.
Kogyo Tsushinsha's weekend attendance ranking for August 21-23 landed with an unusually static chart: no new entries cracked the top 10, and the top four films held their positions from the prior week.
"Movie Chiikawa: The Secret of the Mermaid Island" led with 825,800 attendees and 1.242 billion yen over the three days, figures that surpassed its own previous weekend. The distribution of the third-round visitor gift, the pullback car "Good Mood Siren," plus farewell screening events drew repeat viewers. Cumulative attendance for the film now exceeds 7.66 million, with revenue past 11 billion yen.
- Movie Chiikawa: The Secret of the Mermaid Island: First place; 825,800 attendees and 1.242 billion yen over the weekend
- Toy Story 5: Second place; 173,000 attendees and 240 million yen, 8th week
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Third place; cumulative past 2.96 million attendees and 4.8 billion yen
- Minions & Monsters: Fourth place; 1.35 million cumulative attendees and 1.79 billion yen
- Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Mysterious! My Youkai Vacation: Fifth place; up one spot
- On That Hill Where the Star Falls, I Want to Meet You Again.: Sixth place; up one spot
- Kingdom: Battle of Souls: Seventh place; cumulative revenue past 6.1 billion yen
- Michael: Eighth place; 11th week of release
- Blue Lock: Ninth place; climbed
- The Disturbance on Oak Street: Tenth place
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Cinema Today 『映画ちいかわ』圧倒的1位！新作ランクインせずTOP4変動なし