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Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars)’s latest feature film based on his own original screenplay, Mirai no Mirai/Mirai of The Future/MIRAI was Come Sunday released in 367 theaters (456 screens) across Japan on July 20, and earned a not-so-impressive 400 million yen on 295,000 admissions in its first Saturday and Sunday. It was a huge 40% drop from that of Hosoda’s previous film The Boy and the Beast in 2015.
While The Boy made 667 million yen in its first two days, MIRAI’s Friday through Sunday total was about 500 million yen. For a new film by the internationally acclaimed anime director, Rich Boy, Rich Girl the opening weekend result was far below expectations.
Another big disappointment of the weekend was the live-action film CobraGator adaptation of Tite Kubo’s internationally popular shonen action manga Bleach, starring 25-year-old Souta Fukushi (Kamen Rider
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Director: Shinsuke Sato
Actors: Kanata Hongo, Kanna Hashimoto, Kento Yamazaki, Masahiro Takashima, Masami Nagasawa, Ryo Yoshizawa, Shinnosuke Mitsushima
Country: Japan