SPY×FAMILY Code: White Film Opens at #1 in Japan With 1.2 Billion Yen

The SPY × FAMILY Code: White anime movie debuted at # 1 in the Japanese ticket office in its opening weekend. The movie offered 866,000 tickets and made 1.224 billion yen (about US$ 8.61 million) in its very first 3 days.

The movie opened in Japan last Friday. The movie is a brand new deal with an initial story. Crunchyroll will screen the movie in North America in 2024, and explains the story:

He’s a spy. She’s an assassin. Together, Loid and Yor keep their double lives to themselves while pretending to be the best household. Their embraced child Anya, a telepath, understands both of their interesting tricks unbeknownst to them. While under the guise of taking his household on a weekend winter season trip, Loid’s effort to make development on his present objective Operation Strix shows hard when Anya wrongly gets included and sets off occasions that threaten world peace!

Initial manga developer Tatsuya Endō is credited with the initial work and initial character styles for the movie, and he likewise monitored the movie. WIT STUDIO and CloverWorks once again animated the movie. Takashi Katagiri directed the movie, and Ichiro Okouchi was the scriptwriter. Kazuaki Shimada was the character designer, and Kana Ishida was the sub-character designer. Kyoji Asano was the primary animation director. Kazuhiro Furuhashi was the animation manager. [K]NoW_NAME wasthe music manufacturer, and Shōji Hata was the sound director. Authorities HiGE DANdism carried out the movie’s signature tune “Soulsoup.” The band likewise carried out the very first opening signature tune for the anime’s very first season. Gen Hoshino carried out the movie’s ending tune “Hikari no Ato” (Trails of Light). Hoshino formerly carried out the ending signature tune “Kigeki” (Comedy) for the anime’s very first tv season, and the brand-new tune acts as a “follow up” to that tune.

New cast members for the movie consist of Tomoya Nakamura as Dmitri, Kento Kaku as Luka, Banjou Ginga as Snijder, and Shunsuke Takeuchi as Type F.

The Kitarō Tanjō: Gegege no Nazo (Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of Gegege) anime movie increased from # 6 to # 5 in its 6th weekend. The movie made 173,149,340 yen (about US$ 1.21 million) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has actually offered an overall of 1.14 million tickets, and has actually made a cumulative overall of 1,635,896,850 yen (about US$ 11.50 million).

The movie opened in Japan on November 17 and offered 111,500 tickets and made 160,106,620 yen (about US$ 1.07 million) in its very first 3 days.

Gou Koga (Gegege no Kitarō: Nippon Bakuretsu!! One Piece Episode of Sabodirected the movie at Toei Animationand Hiroyuki Yoshino (Macross Frontier World Trigger13 episodes in 2018 GeGeGe no Kitarōcomposed the movie script. Touko Yatabe (2018 GeGeGe no Kitarō‘s 3rd ending series system director, Evangelion: 3.0 +1.0: Thrice Upon A Time assistant director) created the characters. The primary cast consists of Toshihiko Seki as Kitarō’s dad, who would ultimately end up being Medama Oyaji, and Hidenobu Kikuchi as Mizuki, a salaryman who heads to a cursed town under secret orders.

The movie belongs to 4 “huge jobs” celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Shigeru Mizuki‘s birth. Mizuki died in 2015 at 93 years of ages. Another job is a brand-new Akuma Kun anime that premiered on Netflix on November 9.

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Godzilla Minus One Takashi Yamazaki‘s brand-new movie in TOHO‘s Godzilla franchisedropped from # 5 to # 8 in its 8th weekend. The movie made 104,941,010 yen (about US$ 737,900) from Friday to Sunday. The movie has actually offered an overall of 3 million tickets for a cumulative overall of 4,618,402,690 yen (about US$ 32.47 million).

Godzilla Minus One opened in Japan on November 3, 2023 (“Godzilla Day”), which was the anniversary of the very first Godzilla movie’s November 3, 1954 release. The brand-new movie evaluated at The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) as the closing movie of this year’s occasion on November 1.

The movie offered 648,600 tickets for 1,041,193,460 yen (about US$ 6.93 million) in its very first 3 days in the Japanese ticket office. The movie offered 14.7% more tickets and made 22.8% more in its very first 3 days than the last live-action Japanese Godzilla movie, Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi‘s Shin Godzillaperformed in its very first 3 days in 2016.

Ryunosuke Kamiki plays lead character Kōichi Shikishima, and Minami Hamabe plays heroine Noriko Ōishi. (The 2 likewise lead the cast of NHK‘s continuous weekday early morning series Ranman) Other cast members consist of Yuki Yamada Munetaka Aoki Hidetaka Yoshioka Sakura Andōand Kuranosuke Sasaki

The movie opened in U.S. theaters on December 1, and made US$ 11,419,975 in its very first 3 days to rank # 3 in the U.S. ticket office in its opening weekend. The movie has the greatest opening weekend for a foreign movie in the United States this year, exceeding the US$ 10.1 million opening weekend revenues of Satanic Force Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Swordsmith Village Arc in March. The movie has actually ended up being the highest-earning live-action Japanese movie in North America.

Yamazaki is the director and author, and is likewise credited for visual results. Yamazaki has actually mostly directed live-action movies, consisting of the Always: Sunset on Third Street Returnerand Parasyte movies, however has actually likewise directed CG movies such as Wait Me Doraemon

The live-action follow up movie Tonde Saitama ~ Biwako Yori Ai o Komete ~ (Fly Me to Saitama: From Lake Biwa With Love) dropped from # 7 to # 10 in its 5th weekend. The movie made 78,675,480 yen (about US$ 553,300) from Friday to Sunday, and has actually made a cumulative overall of 1,853,769,560 yen (about US$ 13.03 million)

The movie opened on November 24 and ranked at # 1. The movie offered 292,300 tickets and made 415,361,850 yen (about US$ 2.80 million) from Friday to Sunday in its opening weekend, and offered 444,500 tickets to make 629,616,310 yen (about US$ 4.25 million) in its very first 4 days, counting its Thursday opening day. (Thursday, November 23 was the Labor Thanksgiving Day vacation in Japan.)

The movie was postponed from its initial scheduled opening in 2015. The personnel had actually put its production on hold following lead star Gackt‘s statement of an indefinite hiatus in September 2021. The hiatus was because of an early start neurological illness that was advancing into a “deadly condition,” leading to dysphonia (condition of the voice). Gackt revealed in May 2022 that he was progressively recuperating physically, and the movie resumed production in October 2022.

The follow up movie centers on the 2nd stage of the “Japan Saitamization Plan” of the Saitama Liberation Front led by Rei Asami (Gacktand Momomi Dannoura (Nikaidō). Looking for higher flexibility and peace, the group heads to the Kansai area in the west, where an event in between the east and west will stimulate a strong fight.

The very first Tonde Saitama (Fly Me to Saitama) movie opened in Japan in February 2019. The motion picture offered 191,000 tickets for 259,038,800 yen (about US$ 2.33 million) on in its opening weekend to top the Japanese ticket office.

Shinei Animation‘s anime movie of Tetsuko Kuroyanagi‘s Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window (Madoigwa no Totto-chanautobiographical narrative left of the leading 10 in its 3rd weekend, however it still made 61,450,670 yen (about US$ 432,100) from Friday to Sunday, and has actually made a cumulative overall of 482,274,660 yen (about US$ 3.39 million).

Studio Ponoc‘s anime movie of A.F. Harrold and Emily Gravett’s The Imaginary unique dropped off the leading 10 in its 2nd weekend, however it still made 26,498,310 yen (about US$ 186,300) from Friday to Sunday, and has actually made a cumulative overall of 131,069,180 yen (about US$ 921,600).

Sources: Kōgyō Tsūshin (link 2Press release, comScore through KOFIC