The WOM is pretty good as well, it'll be exciting to see how it hold over the weekdays, btw both Moana and Frozen had to compete with Doraemon in their first weekend, even the release pattern was same, four months prior to US, the only thing that set them apart for now is the OSCAR, it surely played a big role for Frozen's long run.

With sing releasing next week, we might see 5 animated films in TOP 10.

My gurl Moana be discovering that bling bra.

So happy to see YN staying over in the Top 10. I just hope it makes 30th week in Top 10.

Does the Spring Break boost start the upcoming weekend or the weekend after? When does it end?

Spring Break typically occurs the last week (7-10 days) of March, so this upcoming weekend won't be affected. The weekend frames themselves are usually unaffected though during Spring Break - the weekdays is where the real boost is during the holiday week.

Also, I had a very, very long day, so I'm going to relax tonight and postpone the Weekend Actuals/Chart Updates until tomorrow evening. Sorry guys, but I'm just drained.

I would love to see Your Name. make it to 30 weeks. And what a total!

I was personally hoping for it to reach #2 all-time behind Spirited Away but still an insanely impressive run nonetheless. I wonder when we will see another film reach these heights again. I used to think these phenomenons occured only once in a decade, but then here comes Your Name just 2.5 years after Frozen with a similarily mindblowing run.

Graph update as I get actual Your Name figure for week 29.
Impressive run is about to come to an end.
25 billion is still possible through revised figure.

In the next 5 weeks I might add Moana if it has a good run (I hope).
And we'll have the conclusion of Your Name phenomenal in Japan.
Now what I want to know is how well it gonna perform in North America.

As much I've heard, it'll have limited release in US, that was expected from Funimation, but still $10-$15 M is achievable for a film with such hype, although it really didn't won any major awards which could've benefited the distributor to bargain more screens.

Your Name. is going to reach ¥25 billion, and it should do so in mid/late April. Its dailies have been up versus last week so far, and it's not even Spring Break yet (two weeks away). If it's able to remain flat this upcoming weekend, or experience a small decline, it might be able to achieve a 30th-consecutive week in the Top 10 before heading into the Spring Break holiday period.

I wouldn't count on it leaving wide release until at least mid-May (post-Golden Week), its 37th/38th week. It came in 10th place this past weekend, its 29th-consecutive week in the Top 10, and it's still playing wider (theater count) than every film in release aside from three. It's also not even being released on home video until October (14 months after opening), and could continue to play in theaters until then.

This past Weekend's Actuals & Chart Updates will be posted in an hour or two.

Thanks for the update. Where do you see Your Name ending its run in terms of gross and admissions?

Won't it be end of the tracking when Your Name drop from top 10 and we've to follow the accummulate gross through all time rank from kogyotsushin only?
Anyway, Your Name just break another record for widest gap between wide release date and home release date (14 months). I thought it gonna come out in late August, exactly one year just like Spirited Away (with October being the home release date in UK).

I partially pay for a subscription to bunkatsushin, a trade paper/web service that provides daily/weekly data for the movie, music, and broadcasting industries, with a couple friends. It provides revenue and admission* figures for many films that have fallen out of the Top 10.

The Japanese movie industry consists of nine major distribution companies that typically account for ~85% of the national box office, and as long as a film is distributed by one of them, they're continuously updated on bunkatsushin until they're hardly earning anything week-to-week (99% of their total is typically tracked).

But... the subscription is very expensive (hence why I thrice split the cost), coming in at ¥18,000 ($150+) a month for just the basic movie industry newsletter alone, and ¥23,000 ($200+) for the Pro service.

*Admission figures are the selling point since they're not as widely available as revenue figures.

We'll have to wait and see. I know that's a poor "answer", but there are still a few variables to consider going forward: Firstly, we'll have to see the screen count/showtimes it has going into Spring Break in two weeks; the holiday week could give the film a good boost. Secondly, once Spring Break is over and we're in April, it'll have Golden Week (beginning April 29th) to look toward and will hopefully still be playing on a sufficient number of screens/showtimes to take advantage of this holiday period because it's one of the three strongest weeks of the entire year.

It's going to reach ¥25 billion (~$236 million) at the very least, which will be ~19.26 million admissions. However, if it's still pulling in decent numbers, even when it falls out of the Top 10, and remains playing on enough screens/showtimes as I mentioned above to take advantage of the upcoming holiday periods, maybe it can climb closer to ¥25.5 billion (~$240 million) and ~19.64 million admissions.

Corpse it seems that YN will be out of Top 10 next week. Do you see it coming back with Spring break and April holidays? It just needs 4 more weeks inside Top 10 to beat SA's tally.

Sing has never been on the spotlight and still sitting with a WW gross of around $600M, so much for taking animals!
Any early prediction?

I'm not sure what to predict for Sing, honestly. I talked about it a couple weeks ago here, and ultimately, I don't see it having the appeal of the Despicable Me films or Minions, nor of The Secret Life of Pets, to breakout. I think it'll do alright, probably reaching ¥2 billion (~$20 million) or so - we'll see.

The biggest issue is the film's biggest marketing angle being a singing contest featuring popular songs, but... none of the songs or their artists featured are popular in Japan (besides Taylor Swift, who has had a little success). Western artists/songs rarely chart in Japan these days (the music industry is dominated by Japanese acts).

I recently saw Hacksaw Ridge and got curious. Do American WW2 films set in the Pacific ever get released in Japan?